Roland FitzEustace
d. 1496
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Roland FitzEustace, Baron of Portlester, was Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor of Ireland for forty years and father-in-law of Gerald the Great of Kildare.
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✓ ROLAND FitzEUSTACE, 1st Baron PORTLESTER (d.1496), Lord Treasurer and Chancellor of Ireland; father of Alison (our line, wife of Gerald 8th Earl of Kildare). DOCUMENTED FLOOR of the FitzEustace barons; the elder FitzEustace of Castlemartin note-only. Standard well-documented medieval genealogy per the cited authorities (web-confirmed 7 Aug 2026); contested rungs note-only, not hardened. UPDATE 22 Oct 2026: parents Sir Edward FitzEustace (d.1454, Lord Deputy) x Alicia wired ✓. WIFE UNRESOLVED, note-only: Rowland married (1) Elizabeth Brune (CP; DIB per Humphrys gives Joan Tapton), (2) 1463 Joan/Jenet Bellew, widow of Christopher Plunket, 2nd Baron Killeen, (3) after 1467 Margaret Jenico d'Artois, widow of Sir John Dowdall. Wikipedia (Cambridge DIB/DNB) makes Alison Margaret's daughter; Humphrys says Alison was of the first or second marriage. Not wired pending decision. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| Wife identified: CP VII 'Kildare' p.232 - Alison was 'da. and coh. of Rowland (FitzEustace), 1st Baron of Portlester [I.], by Joan, widow of Christopher (Plunket), 1st Lord Killeen'. Joan added 26 Oct 2026. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. VII (1929), 'Kildare' pp.219-232, read 26 Oct 2026 (archive.org djvu text).