page_title: Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth / Family
caption_attribution_description: arched topText from NPG catalogue: "This impressive portrait is the earliest painting in the National Portrait Gallery's collection. The inscription records that the portrait was painted on 29 October 1505 by order of Herman Rinck, an agent for the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I. The portrait was probably painted as part of an unsuccessful marriage proposal, as Henry hoped to marry Maximillian's daughter Margaret of Savoy as his second wife".
context_page_description: Robert St Lawrence, 3rd Baron Howth was a leading statesman in 15th-century Ireland who held the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Through marriage he was a close connection of the Tudor dynasty.
context_section_description: Robert married firstly Alice White, daughter of Nicholas White of Killester, and by  marriage acquired the manor of Killester. In 1478 he made a second and politically significant marriage to Joan Beaufort, daughter of Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset and Eleanor Beauchamp. Somerset's  seemingly remote claim to the English Crown as the legal heir of John of Gaunt was inherited  by his cousin Margaret Beaufort's son Henry VII,  who became  first Tudor monarch.  The St Lawrences, unlike most of the Anglo-Irish nobility, were  reliable supporters of the Tudor dynasty: clearly the family connection was  too valuable to them not to be taken full advantage of.
  He had six children:
  Nicholas St Lawrence, 4th Baron Howth
  Thomas St. Lawrence, who became Attorney General for Ireland and a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland)
  Walter
  Christopher
  Genet, who married Thomas Fitzsimons
  Anne, who married William Golding.
  Some sources state that his second marriage was childless, however his eldest son Nicholas,  who was born about 1460, must have been about twenty years older than  his second  son Thomas,  who was studying  law  at the Inns of Court   in  London in  1503 and survived until 1553, so it is likely that Thomas, Walter and Christopher  were children of their father's  second marriage to Joan Beaufort. Joan  remarried Sir Richard Fry and died in 1518.
caption: King Henry VII of England- Lord Howth was his cousin by marriage, and a reliable supporter of the Tudor  dynasty.
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