Earl Landaff
Earl Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1797 for Francis Mathew, 1st Viscount Landaff, who had previously represented County Tipperary in the Irish House of Commons. He had already been created Baron Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, in 1783, and Viscount Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, in 1797, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1800 he was elected as one of the 28 original Irish Representative Peers. He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl.
The Earls Landaff used the invented courtesy title Viscount Mathew for the heir apparent. Despite their territorial designations and the fact that they were in the Peerage of Ireland, the titles all referred to the place in Glamorgan now spelt Llandaff. The Mathew family was founded by Sir David Mathew(d.1484), Grand Standard Bearer of England. The Earls of Landaff were descended from the branch of the family seated at Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales, descended from Thomas Mathew(d.1470), a younger son of Sir David Mathew. In Llandaff Cathedral, nearby Radyr, there exist three 15th.c. & 16th.c. Mathew family effigies.
The seat of the Mathew family was Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary.
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[edit] Earls Landaff (1797)
- Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (1738–1806)
- Francis James Mathew, 2nd Earl Landaff (1768–1833)
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[edit] Bibliography
- Mathew, Rev. Murray Alexander, "The Genealogy of the Earls of Landaff of Thomastown, County Tipperary, Ireland", published by Simpkin, London, 1895. (A rare book)
