Barnaby Barnewall (died 1493) was an Irish barrister and judge, and a founder member of the military guild, the Brotherhood of Saint George.
[1] He was one of the original members of the Brotherhood of Saint George, a military order set up in 1474 for the defence of the Pale, which was for a time the only standing army in Ireland.
[1] In 1487, in common with all of his judicial colleagues, he made the mistake of supporting the claim of Lambert Simnel, pretender to the English Crown.
Simnel's cause was crushed at the Battle of Stoke Field: the victorious King Henry VII was merciful to the rebels and Barnewall, together with his colleagues, was pardoned in 1488.
[3] He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitz-Christopher Plunket, who presided in the King's Bench during Barnaby's early years on the Court; they had no children.