page_title: Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: External view of Beaulieu House in County Louth, Republic of Ireland
context_page_description: Christopher St Lawrence, 8th Baron Howth was an Irish politician and peer. He was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland, and played a leading part in the Government of Ireland in the 1560s; but he later went into opposition and was imprisoned as a result. He was nicknamed the Blind Lord.
  He was a man of considerable intelligence and learning, who may have written part of the historical compilation called The Book of Howth. On the other hand, he was notorious for his domestic cruelty: he was imprisoned briefly and fined for ill-treating his wife and for causing the death of his teenage daughter through his brutal treatment of her.
context_section_description: He married firstly  about 1540, Elizabeth Plunket, daughter of Sir John Plunket of Beaulieu House, County Louth and his wife Anne Barnewall, daughter of Robert Barnewall  of Drimnagh.  From her testimony at her husband's  trial,   we know that they had 14 children, but presumably several of them died in infancy  and only 8  children can be  identified with certainty:
  Nicholas St Lawrence, 9th Baron Howth (c.1550–1607)
  Thomas (died 1600), who was killed at the Battle of Moyry Pass
  Leonard (died 1608), who married Anne Eustace
  Richard, who married a daughter of Francis Corby
  Margaret, who married firstly William Fitzwilliam and secondly Michael Berford
  Mary, who married Sir Patrick Barnewall of Turvey (the marriage was  annulled in 1579; she evidently did not remarry)
  Elizabeth
  Jane,  who died  in 1577,  aged only 13, a  victim of her father's ill-treatment.
  He married secondly, after 1579, Cecily Cusack, daughter of Henry Cusack, alderman of Dublin. She outlived him by many years, and remarried twice. By her second husband John Barnewall (died 1599), younger son of Sir Christopher Barnewall,  she had a son Patrick.
caption: Beaulieu House, the home of Howth's first wife Elizabeth Plunket
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