Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford

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Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier of Longford (1558–1632), also known as Lord Aungier, was the progenitor of the Earldom of Longford, member of the House of Lords, Privy Councillor for Ireland, and Master of the Rolls in Ireland under James I and Charles I.

In 1621, he was created Lord Aungier, Baron of Longford by patent, which stated that he descended from the Counts of Aungier. He purchased the lands of the White Friars Monastery where he resided in Dublin, where in 1677, Aungier Street was dedicated in his honor of family.

In 1625 Sir Francis Aungier obtained a grant to the Whitefriars' estates. A later Francis Aungier (created Earl of Longford) started developing the area and while building Aungier Street in 1677 also contributed to the building of the church, which was completed in 1685. The church took the place of the two older churches, both falling into ruin. St. Peter's Church, Aungier Street, Dublin

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b. c.14 May 1558, 1st s. of Richard Aungier of Cambridge by Rose, da. of William Stewart of Ely. educ. Westminster, Queen’s scholar 1570; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1574; sp. adm. G. Inn 1577, called 1583. m. (1) bef. 1589, Douglas, da. of Hon. Edward Fitzgerald, sis. of Gerald, 14th Earl of Kildare; (2) Anne, da. of Sir George Barne of Woolwich, wid. of Walter Marler; (3) Margaret, da. of Sir Thomas Cave, wid. of Sir John Wynne; at least 5s. 3da. suc. fa. 1597. Kntd. 1609; cr. Baron Aungier [I] 1621.

Biography
Aungier’s Aungier’s father, a Cambridgeshire landowner and a lawyer, was murdered in his chambers by a younger son and his body found floating down the Thames. Aungier himself married into the Irish nobility and became related to Elizabeth, Countess of Lincoln, who in 1589 appointed him executor of her will, leaving him the lease of the rectory and of other property at Woking in Surrey. The will was proved in 1590—after some dissension among interested parties—and Aungier settled in Surrey thereafter. He was assessed for the 1593 subsidy as of East Clandon, at £20 in lands, was appointed to the commission of the peace and may have been adding to his Surrey property as late as 1609. The only ascertained connexion with the duchy of Lancaster borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme for which he sat in the 1589 Parliament is that his father was then retained as counsel by the duchy. On 27 Feb. 1589 he was named to a committee to discuss the progress of the bill for purveyors. It was presumably Aungier’s friendship with (Sir) William More I, who appointed him an overseer of his will, that enabled him to be returned at Haslemere in 1597. In the Parliament of that year he was appointed to the committee of privileges (5 Nov.) and to two others concerning armour and weapons (10 Nov.) and monopolies (10 Nov.).3

When he went to Ireland, already an experienced lawyer whom Francis Bacon could describe as ‘very honest and able’, he displayed great energy in discharging his judicial duties: as a justice of assize he rode on circuit twice a year and earned a reputation for severity. He became a commissioner for the plantation of Ulster in 1616 and of Longford in 1620, where he later built a mansion. He also had a house in Dublin—once a monastery of the White Friars near Dublin Castle—where he died, 8 Oct. 1632. In his will he asked to be buried simply in a chapel near his Dublin home. All his lands, except some in Cambridgeshire reserved for his son George, and his wife’s jointure, were to go to his eldest son Gerald, while to his younger sons Ambrose and Francis he left sums of money. To Gerald, then over 30 years of age, he left his ‘history books and books of discourse’, to Ambrose his ‘divinity books’ and to Francis his law books, and he made bequests to his servants and the poor of the parish where he lived. If his movables were insufficient to meet his debts and legacies, these were to be paid for from the profits of Woking rectory. As executors he appointed his sons Gerald and Ambrose along with his ‘trusty servant’ Ralph Leventhorpe, and he asked the lords of the Privy Council in Ireland to protect his wife and children. He was first buried according to his request, but on 6 Dec. 1632 was re-interred in St. Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin.

http://historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/aungie...

Marriage and issue

Aungier was married three times, and had several children through his marriages.

He married first Douglas Fitzgerald, and had five children:

1. Gerald Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford, who married Jane Onslow, daughter of Sir Edward Onslow
2. Ambrose Aungier, Chancellor of St. Patrick's Cathredal, who married Grisel Bulkeley, daughter of Archbishop of Dublin, Lancelot Bulkeley, and was the father of Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford, Gerald Aungier, and Ambrose Aungier, 2nd Earl of Longford
3. Elizabeth Aungier, who married Simon Caryll, Richard Barne, and John Machell
4. Lettice Aungier, who married Edward Cherry, Sir William Danvers, and Sir Henry Holcroft
5. Thomas Aungier
6. Francis Aungier (died young)

He married secondly Anne Barne, daughter of Sir George Barne III, and had two children:

1. George Aungier
2. Frances Aungier

He married thirdly Margaret Cave, daughter of Sir Thomas Cave, with whom he had no issue.

 A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct ...By Sir Bernard Burke.  Page 18.

Francis Aunger

• First Name: FRANCIS
• Last Name: AUNGER
• Year: 1558
• Month: May
• Day: 14
• Year Of Birth: 1558
• Birth Month: May
• Birth Day: 14
• Place: COTON
• Mother's Given Name: Rose
• Father's First Name: Richard