Thomas Talbot (died 1487)

[3] She was a much-married lady, whose other husbands were Jenico d'Artois the younger, and then Thomas Hussey, 5th Baron Galtrim, who was murdered on their wedding day, an event which inspired the nineteenth-century ballad "The Bride of Malahide".

Thomas was given possession of his lands in 1459 on foot of a petition to the Privy Council of Ireland which stated that he had proved that he had come of age, and thus we know that he was born in 1438.

[5] His mother obtained letters patent from the English Crown granting her possession of her late husband's estates.

[1] In about 1460 his mother made a fourth marriage to Sir John Cornwalsh, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

This was part of a wider Yorkist policy, which had considerable success, of trying to win the support of powerful Anglo-Irish magnates such as the Earl of Kildare.