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- Christopher_Preston,_2nd_Baron_Gormanston abstract "Christopher Preston, 2nd Baron Gormanston (c. 1354 – 1422) was an Anglo-Irish peer and statesman. He was accused of treason and imprisoned in 1418-9, but soon released and restored to favour.He was the son of Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston and his first wife Margaret de Bermingham, daughter and heiress of Walter de Bermingham, titular baron of Kells-in-Ossory. He was born between 1354 and 1360.He was knighted in 1397 and sat in the Irish House of Lords; while the Crown recognised Baron Gormanston as a hereditary peerage he apparently sat as Baron Kells, in right of his mother.His career appears to have been uneventful until 1418 when he clashed with John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Talbot accused Gormanston, Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare and the Prior of the Order of Hospitallers at Kilmainham, Thomas Le Boteller, of a treasonable conspiracy. The Prior, a professional soldier, removed himself from the picture by going to fight at the Siege of Rouen, but Kildare and Gormanston were imprisoned and subject to forfeiture of their lands. They were accused of dissolving Parliament without the Lord Lieutenant's consent, holding a "Parliament" of their own without Royal authority, uttering threats against the Lord Lieutenant and Privy Council, and plotting to kill the Lord Lieutenant.What truth there was in the more serious charges in hard to say: Gormanston had certainly acted in a high-handed manner by trying to dissolve Parliament, but Otway-Ruthven considers it unlikely that he was guilty of anything more than hostility to Talbot. This may have been the first evidence of the 30-yead feud, which came to completely dominate public life, between Talbot and James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde, who was the Prior's brother and Kildare's future son-in-law. The "evidence" against Gormanston consisted mainly of his possession of the King's Coronation Oath, and also of a controversial treatise, the Modus Tenendi Parliamentum, which had probably belonged to his father.Although the treatise stresses the importance of Parliament's role and (on an extreme view) could be taken as justifying in some cases the deposition of the King, Lord Gormanston's possession of it amounts to no more than evidence that he had some interest in the subject of political reform.He was quickly cleared of the charges of treason, released and restored to his estates. In 1421 he was sent with a message from Parliament to King Henry V. He died the following year.He married Elizabeth de Londres, daughter and heiress of William de Londres, feudal baron of Naas. His son Christopher succeeded as Baron of Gormanston, Kells and Naas.".
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- Christopher_Preston,_2nd_Baron_Gormanston comment "Christopher Preston, 2nd Baron Gormanston (c. 1354 – 1422) was an Anglo-Irish peer and statesman. He was accused of treason and imprisoned in 1418-9, but soon released and restored to favour.He was the son of Robert Preston, 1st Baron Gormanston and his first wife Margaret de Bermingham, daughter and heiress of Walter de Bermingham, titular baron of Kells-in-Ossory.".
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