Charles Coote, 3rd Earl of Mountrath (c.1655 – 29 May 1709) was an Anglo-Irish peer and official.
[2] In 1689 during the Williamite War in Ireland, Coote's estate, worth £2,250 a year in rent, was sequestered by the Patriot Parliament loyal to James II of England.
[1] Following the war, he was granted the estate of Christopher Fleming, 17th Baron Slane, who had been attainted.
A favourite of William III of England, in 1694 he was chosen to carry the Banner of the Kingdom of Ireland at the funeral of Queen Mary.
He was active in the Irish House of Lords and was a member of several important committees, notably those proposing anti-Roman Catholic measures.