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Richard Piers
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Richard Piers, of the Piers family of Tristernagh, County Westmeath, stands in the Burke's-recorded line toward the baronets of that name.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, PIERS article pp.3133-34, photographed and read 6 Aug 2026): RICHARD PIERS, of PIERS HALL, Yorks; father of Capt. William Piers (I99135, our line - who migrated to Ireland 1566, was granted Tristernagh, governed Carrickfergus, was rewarded 1000 marks in 1569 for bringing in the head of Shane O'Neill, and d.1602). DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the Piers line - the family's Yorkshire origin.