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Walter de Cusack (c.1270- 1334) was an Ang … Walter de Cusack (c.1270- 1334) was an Anglo-Irish judge, magnate and military commander of the fourteenth century. He was a younger son of Sir Andrew Cusack of Gerrardstown, County Meath. They belonged to the leading Anglo-Irish Cusack family, who came to Ireland soon after the Norman Conquest of Ireland in the late twelfth century and settled mainly in County Meath. Sir Andrew was a younger son of Geoffrey de Cusack, Lord of Killeen. Nicholas Cusack, Bishop of Kildare 1279-99, was a cousin. Walter was summoned by King Edward I for military service in the First War of Scottish Independence in 1303 and 1307, and probably on two or three later occasions. He sat in the Irish Parliament in 1310. He was appointed Chief Justice in Eyre (i.e. Chief Itinerant justice) in 1308, and was reappointed a justice itinerant in 1310, for County Dublin only (the eyre system was being wound down). He served as Deputy Justiciar of Ireland, and was a justice of the Justiciar's Court in 1317–18. He was politically a close ally of the Justiciar, Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, in the years 1316-8, and was steward of his Irish estates. For this reason his loyalty to King Edward II in the final crisis of his reign, which ended with the King's deposition and murder at Mortimer's hands, has been questioned: he was accused of plotting treason, but the charges did not stick. He married firstly Matilda, daughter and co-heiress with her sister Isabella (who married Adam, eight Lord of Howth) of William (or Robert) Pylate of Pylatestown. He married secondly, after 1310, Amicia, widow of Nigel le Brun of Roebuck, Dublin. Through his second marriage he acquired Knocktopher Castle in County Kilkenny, which Nigel and Amicia had purchased from Sir Walter de la Haye, the former Justiciar, in 1309. It passed to the Butler dynasty soon after his death. His marriage to Amicia was technically an offence since it seems that he did not have the King's permission to marry, which was required in the case of a widow. However, obtaining a pardon for this transgression was easy enough. He died in 1334, leaving issue from his first marriage, including Simon Cusack, Lord of Dangan Castle, and John Cusack of Belpere. His descendants were mainly associated with Cushinstown in County Meath. They included Sir Thomas Cusack, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1571.d Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1571.
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Walter de Cusack (c.1270- 1334) was an Ang … Walter de Cusack (c.1270- 1334) was an Anglo-Irish judge, magnate and military commander of the fourteenth century. He was a younger son of Sir Andrew Cusack of Gerrardstown, County Meath. They belonged to the leading Anglo-Irish Cusack family, who came to Ireland soon after the Norman Conquest of Ireland in the late twelfth century and settled mainly in County Meath. Sir Andrew was a younger son of Geoffrey de Cusack, Lord of Killeen. Nicholas Cusack, Bishop of Kildare 1279-99, was a cousin., Bishop of Kildare 1279-99, was a cousin.
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