Bartholomew Dillon

Bartholomew was born at Riverston, County Meath, eldest son of Sir James Dillon and his wife Elizabeth Bathe.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/191/ 191, line 11]|ps=. "... was a son of James Dillon and Elizabeth Bathe;"}}{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142]|ps=. "James the eldest son, became seated at Riverston, in the county of Meath, (his mother's inheritance) and marrying Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew Bath, of Dullardston, Esq., and widow of ____ Kerdisse, had five sons and two daughters, viz. Sir Bartholomew, his heir ..."}} His father was a Baron of the Exchequer.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/112/ 112, line 9]|ps=. "Both James Dillon and his son, Sir Bartholomew Dillon, who succeeded him as baron of the Exchequer ..."}} His father's family was Old English and descended from Sir Henry Dillon who came to Ireland with Prince John in 1185.{{Sfn|Webb|1878|p=[https://archive.org/details/acompendiumiris00webbgoog/page/n157/ 149, line 7]|ps=. "... [Sir Henry Dillon] came to Ireland in 1185 as secretary to Prince John ..."}} His mother was a daughter of Bartholomew Bathe of Dollardstown Castle, Athy, County Kildare.

He leads the list of his brothers below as the eldest:

1. Bartholomew (died 1533){{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 29]|ps=. "Sir Bartholomew, his heir;"}}
2. Gerald{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 30]|ps=. "Gerald, who left posterity at Skryne and Balgieth;"}}
3. Robert (died 1579), became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 31]|ps=. "Sir Robert, of Newtown, near Trim, immediate ancestor to the Earl of Roscommon."}}
4. Thomas, prior of St Peter of Trim{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 32]|ps=. "Thomas, prior of St Peter of Trim ."}}
5. Edmund, prior of St. John's Priory, Trim, and prior of Lusk{{Sfn|Conwell|1873|p=366|ps=. "Edmund, fourth brother of Sir Bartholomew Dillon, who was made chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1513, was prior of Newton."}}{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 33]|ps=. "Edmund, prior of Newtown and of the abbey of Lusk."}}

He had two sisters:

1. Elizabeth, married a Cusack of Portrane{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 34]|ps=. "Elizabeth married to ____ Cusack of Portrane."}}
2. Thomasine, married John Delafield{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/142/ 142, line 35]|ps=. "Thomasin to John Delafield."}}

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Dillon married twice. His first wife was Elizabeth Barnewall, only daughter of Thomas Barnewall of Irishtown, who was the second son of Robert Barnewall, 1st Baron Trimleston.{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/143/ 143, line 5]|ps=. "He married first Elizabeth, only daughter of Thomas Barnewall, of Irishtown, second son of Robert, Lord Trimleston;"}}

Bartholomew and Elizabeth had a son:

1. Thomas (living in 1541), married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Luttrell, and was father of Sir Robert Dillon{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/143/ 143, line 21]|ps=. "Thomas Dillon, Esq., living in 1541, who succeeded at Riverston, married Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Luttrell ..."}}

—and two daughters:

1. Anne, married Nicholas Kent of Davidstown{{Sfn|Lodge|1789|p=[https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/page/143/ 143]|ps=. "Anne, married to Nicholas Kent, of David's-town, Esq."}}
2. Ismay, married three times. First to John Fleming of Stephenstown, a grandson of James Fleming, 7th Baron Slane, and was the mother of Thomas Fleming, 10th Baron Slane.{{Sfn|Cokayne|1896|p=[https://archive.org/details/completepeerage07cokahrish/page/n159/ 158]|ps=. "10. Thomas (Fleming) Baron Slane [I. [Ireland] ], cousin and h. [heir] male, being s. [son] and h. of James Fleming of Stephenstown by Ismay, da. [daughter] of Bartholomew Dillon ..."}} Secondly to Richard Tath of Cookstown, and thirdly to Sir Thomas Barnewall, second son of John Barnewall, 3rd Baron Trimlestown and his eldest child by his second wife Margaret FitzLeones.

Dillon's younger brother Robert founded the branch of the family that would later hold the title Earl of Roscommon. By birth and marriage the Dillon brothers belonged to the small Anglo-Irish ruling class of the Pale.

Dillon was an official at the Court of Exchequer (Ireland) by 1505 and became a Baron of the Exchequer in 1507. He was promoted Chief Baron in 1514 but removed after a year, for reasons unknown.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/191/ 191, line 13]|ps=. " was appointed first baron of the Exchequer in 1507 and chief baron 1514; was superseded 1515;"}} He was Deputy Treasurer of Ireland from 1516 to 1522, when he became a judge of the Court of King's Bench (Ireland). On 15 January 1533 he was made Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench for Ireland{{Sfn|Smyth|1839|p=[https://archive.org/details/chroniclelawoff00smytgoog/page/n106/ 83]|ps=. "Sir Bartholomew Dillon, Knt., (ad placita nostra coram nobis tenenda,) — Bermingham deceased, — patent, Hoggeston, 15 Jan. 1532."}} but died suddenly soon after.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/191/ 191, line 18]|ps=. "... was appointed chief justice of the King's Bench 1533; died same year;"}}

According to Elrington Ball, at a time when the Irish ruling class were deeply split between supporters (the so-called Geraldines) and opponents of the 9th Earl of Kildare, Dillon was one of the most committed Geraldines, and spent much of his time in England defending the Earl of Kildare's interests.{{Sfn|Ball|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/page/191/ 191, line 17]|ps=. "... appears in London acting on behalf of the Earl of Kildare 1526;"}}

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• {{Cite book|last=Ball |first=Francis Elrington |author-link=F. Elrington Ball |date=1926 |title=The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921 |edition=1st |volume=I |publisher=John Murray |location=London |oclc=832154869 |url=https://archive.org/details/judgesinireland10000unse/}} – 1221 to 1690
• {{Cite book|last=Cokayne |first=George Edward |author-link=George Edward Cokayne |date=1896 |title=Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant |edition=1st |volume=VII |publisher=George Bell and Sons |location=London |oclc=1180891114 |url=https://archive.org/details/completepeerage07cokahrish/}} – S to T (for Slane)
• {{Cite journal|last=Conwell |first=Eugene Alfred |date=1873 |title=A Ramble Round Trim |journal=The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland |series=4th |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=361–430 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25506627 |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite book|last=Lodge |first=John |author-link=John Lodge (archivist) |editor-last=Archdall |editor-first=Mervyn |editor-link=Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary) |date=1789 |title=The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom |volume=IV |publisher=James Moore |location=Dublin |oclc=264906028 |url=https://archive.org/details/peerageofireland04lodg/}} – Viscounts
• {{Cite book|last=Smyth |first=Constantine |date=1839 |title=Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland |publisher=Henry Butterworth |location=London |oclc=1018312937 |url=https://archive.org/details/chroniclelawoff00smytgoog/}}
• {{Cite encyclopedia|last=Webb |first=Alfred |author-link=Alfred Webb |date=1878 |title=Dillon, Sir Henry |encyclopedia=Compendium of Irish Biography |publisher=M. H. Gill & Son |location=Dublin |page=149 |oclc=122693688 |url=https://archive.org/details/acompendiumiris00webbgoog/page/n157/}}

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