Viscount Bellomont, in the County of Dublin, was a title in the
Peerage of Ireland
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. It was created on 18 July 1645 for the Royalist soldier
Sir Henry Bard, 1st Baronet. He had already been created a Baronet, of
Staines in the County of
Middlesex
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, in the
Baronetage of England
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on 8 October 1644, and was made Baron Bard of Dromboy, in the County of Westmeath, at the same time as he was granted the viscountcy, also in the Peerage of Ireland. All three titles became extinct on the early death of his only son, the second Viscount, in 1667.
Viscounts Bellomont (1645)
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Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont
Henry Bard, 1st Viscount Bellomont (1616 – June 20, 1656) was a soldier and diplomat from Staines. He served in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, then as envoy from the exiled Charles II of England to Safavid Iran and the Mughal Empire, where h ...
(–1656)
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Charles Rupert Bard, 2nd Viscount Bellomont (–1667)
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Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland
Noble titles created in 1645