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Jane Jones

b. 1585

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Born
c. 1585

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Jane Jones was a daughter of Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and a sister of the first Viscount Ranelagh. She married Henry Piers of Tristernagh, and it is her household that leads, three generations on, to Constantia Piers and the proven road to the Irish kings.

Research notes

✓ DOCUMENTED (Burke's Peerage PIERS article; Cokayne III p.309: "Jane, SISTER of Roger (Jones), 1st VISCOUNT RANELAGH, da. of Thomas Jones, Archbishop of Dublin (1605-19)"): Jane, dau. of THOMAS JONES, Archbishop of Dublin, and sister of the 1st Viscount Ranelagh; wife of Henry Piers of Tristernagh (d. 1623). Direct ancestress. (Distinct from the Mary Jones/Bishop-of-Meath family below, and from the Cork Joneses of Drombeg.) Added 21 Jul 2026.

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