Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet

Charles Coote
Baronet Coote of Castle Cuffe
A painted portrait of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty, showing a clean-shaven man with long curly hair or such a wig, clad in armour, standing in front of some drapery giving a view on a distant landscape
Detail from the portrait below
Tenure1621–1642
SuccessorCharles, 1st Earl of Mountrath
Born1581
Died7 May 1642
Spouse(s)Dorothea Cuffe
Issue
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Charles & others
FatherNicholas Coote
MotherEleanor Stanhope

Sir Charles Coote, 1st Baronet (1581–1642), of Castle Cuffe in Queen's County, was an English soldier, administrator and landowner who lived in Ireland. He fought in the Siege of Kinsale (1601–1602) in the Nine Years' War and led the decisive cavalry charge at the Battle of Kilrush(1642) of the Irish Confederate Wars.


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