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The following text is a copy of the original, which was written in «old English» (Dublin-1764)

"To all and Singular unte whon these presents sale come 'James Mac Cultch', Ulster King of Arms Ye by the power and the Authority by the Kings most excellent Mayesty under the Seal of Ireland granted unto me do informen you that Redmond Sutton (De Clonard) is by lineage Paternal lawfully descended from ..............'See Chart'.........., and by lineage Maternal in lawfully descended from Roger Dalton of Kildalton in the County of Kilkenny, Esquire as in the Genealogical Table Reseunto prefixed doth manifesty apper and thet the arms above depietd to the same Redmond Sutton do properly belong the testimonn whew of thave hereunto subscribed my name and litle and set the Seal of mine office of arms at Dublin Castle, the Eleventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty four."

(*) The Counts de Clonard "as Jacobites and Catholics" were reduced to the Generic of Esquires, according to the English Rules

for Ireland at that time. However, they became again Earls of Clonards in Spain as well as in France. (Carlos III and Louis XV)

NOTE HÉRALDIQUE DE LA MAISON CLONARD, ÉTABLIE À LA DEMANDE DE NOS AMIS FRANÇAIS:

Le Lion Vert à double queue, sur fond Or appartient à la Branche des Aînés des Comtes de Clonard, descendants de Leonard, (marié avec Lady Margaret Rossiter) - plus ses ancêtres, qui sont les nôtres - et correspond à la Branche Espagnole, soit la lignée de John l'aîné. (Réf. 20 sur le tableau)

Les Branches Benjamines "Sutton de Clonard", - dans ce cas précis celle d'Edward - ont , d'après nos vieux notes informations, un blason sur fond Or avec un Lion Rouge ou vert à double queue. «Au pied du Lion il y a aussi une sorte de salamandre» . Tout ceci est conforme aux traditions Anglo-Normandes en la matière et aux Normes anciennes du Roi d'Armes de la Grande Bretagne.

Les preuves qui nous ont permis d'établir cette information sont conservées par les Comtes de Clonard en Espagne et dans les Archives de la Chancellerie de Grenade, où le Premier Comte de Clonard Espagnol, Michael de Sutton (1770) est reconnu comme étant l'héritier du Comté de Clonard (Wexford) en Irlande.

Juste avant la Guerre Civile Espagnole (1936-1939) mes grand-parents paternels avaient reçu de la nouvelle République d'Irlande une lettre nous reconnaissant comme ayant-droit du patrimoine irlandais de ma famille, pour récupérer notre patrimoine et indiquant que nous dévions verser une grande somme d' argent au titre des Impôts sur le Patrimoine. Cette affaire fut laissée en suspens à cause des deux guerres, dont la Deuxième Guerre Mondiale.

La Maison Clonard en France en honneur de nos deux familles

(voir Heraldique et Généalogie France Juillet -Septembre 1992: Num. 124 - Page 298 ; Ref: 92.II.742.SUTTON - Etude de Mr. J.A. de Saulieu)

Les Deux Maisons Jacobites "Suttons de Clonard " : Espagne-France

Blason de Sutton-Dudley

appartenant aux Comtes de Clonard

en Irlande et aux Comtes de Clonard en Espagne

Clonard (Irish, Cluain Eraird, or Cluain Ioraird, Erard's Meadow) was situated on the beautiful river Boyne, just beside the boundary line of the northern and southern halves of Ireland. The founder of this school, the most famous of the sixth century, was St. Finnian, an abbot and great wonder-worker. He was born at Myshall, County Carlow, about 470. At an early age he was placed under the care of St. Fortchern, by whose direction, it is said, he proceeded to Wales to perfect himself in holiness and sacred knowledge under the great saints of that country. After a long sojourn there, of thirty years according to the Salamanca MS., he returned to his native land and went about from place to place, preaching, teaching, and founding churches, till he was at last led by an angel to Cluain Eraird, which he was told would be the place of his resurrection. Here he built a little cell and a church of clay and wattle, which after some time gave way to a substantial stone structure, and entered on a life of study, mortification, and prayer. The fame of his learning and sanctity was soon noised abroad, and scholars of all ages flocked from every side to his monastic retreat — young laymen and clerics, abbots and bishops even, and those illustrious saints who were afterwards known as the "Twelve Apostles of Erin". In the Office of St. Finnian it is stated that there were no fewer than 3000 pupils getting instruction at one time in the school in the green fields of Clonard under the broad canopy of heaven. The master excelled in exposition of the Sacred Scriptures, and to this fact must be mainly attributed the extraordinary popularity which his lectures enjoyed. The exact date of the saint's death is uncertain, but it was probably 552, and his burial-place is in his own church of Clonard. For centuries after his death the school continued to be renowned as a seat of Scriptural learning, but it suffered at the hands of the Danes, especially in the eleventh century, and two wretched Irishmen, O'Rorke of Breifney and Dermod McMurrough, helped to complete the unholy work which the Northmen had begun. With the transference by the Norman Bishop de Rochfort, in 1206, of the See of Meath from Clonard to Trim, the glory of the former place departed forever. Irish Life in Book of Lismore; HEALY, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars (Dublin, 1890).

After the dissolution of the monasteries by order of Henry VIII, the lands of the Clergy were confiscated, passing to be the property of Sir Thomas Cusack, Chancellor of Ireland and whose daughter Elizabeth was married to John de Sutton, Count of Clonard.

The deterioration in the monastery buildings during the last centuries before lands were taken by the Chancellor of Ireland was already a clear evidence, However it was improved by the Clonard-Cusack clan who obviously allowed the "monks" to remain in their "new lands", under the pseudonime of farmers.

In spite of History's turbulences the ruins of Cluain-Iraird, stayed visible up to 1798 - year in which - the "Battle of Clonard" took place, although Cromwell (c.1648) in his previous pass by this holy place , destroyed the few buildings wich they had been able to preserve and to maintain still on.

Cromwell, as the largest of massacrors left Clonard in ruins and without their inhabitants, so by this way his repressive activity on the Papists or Catholics , would be never forgotten

Sources: Looking forward to the past Clonard Heritage Trail - County Meath Office

To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow,
To run where the brave dare not go.

To right the unrightable wrong,
To love pure and chaste from afar,
To try when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star.

This is my quest,
To follow that star ..
No matter how hopeless,
No matter how far.

To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march
Into hell for a heavenly cause.

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will be peaceful and calm
when I'm laid to my rest.

And the world will be better for this,
that one man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage.
To reach the unreachable star.


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