page_title: Robert Cusack (judge)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Cusack (judge) / Family
caption_attribution_description: English: A paper describing the remains of the monument stones to Sir Thomas Cusack given in 1999 to Trinity College Dublin Ref MS11096 Box 98 This stone shows Sir Tom with wife and 13 children
context_page_description: Robert Cusack was an Irish judge of the sixteenth century, who held office as Baron of the Court of Exchequer. He was strongly recommended for the position of Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, but was passed ove for the office, though r with a promise of future preferment. His career was cut short by his premature death.
  He came from a prominent Anglo-Irish landowning family of the Pale. Although his legitimacy was questionable, as his father in later life denied that he had been lawfully married to his mother, this did not harm him in his career.
context_section_description: He was born at Cussington, County Meath, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Cusack, later Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and his first wife Joan Hussey. His parents' marriage was unhappy and in 1537 it was annulled; Robert's father in later years denied that there had ever been a valid marriage between himself and Joan, and always spoke of his second wife Maud Darcy as his first "lawful" wife. On the other hand, Thomas acknowledged his paternity of Robert and his other children by Joan, and he seems to have treated them generously enough. In  the 1550s Robert was living at Lismullen Abbey, which his father had acquired on the Dissolution of the Monasteries, and later he lived at the older family home at Cussington. The John Cusack who died in 1629 and was described as  the owner of Cussington was probably Robert's son.
caption: The Cusack family memorial at Trevet, which was  erected by Robert's father, Thomas  Cusack
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