Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass

Early life

Family

• Joan, who married Sir Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron Upper Ossory; and
• Eleanor, who married Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan, second son of the 9th Earl of Ormond, and was the mother of Catherine, fourth wife of William Eustace of Castlemartin.

• James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass,
• Edmund, who married Frances Pipho and secondly Joan, daughter of Richard Walsh of Carrickmines. Edmund was involved with his brothers in the Baltinglass Rebellion and escaped to Scotland in 1583 and later to Spain where he served in the Armada in 1588. He died childless in Portugal in 1597;
• Thomas, was executed in 1582 for his involvement in the Baltinglass Rebellion.
• William, fourth son was believed to have been slain in battle in 1581, for it was officially reported to Sir Francis Walsingham, Secretary of State in London, "Head of William Eustace, another Baltinglass brethren, taken this morning." This report may not have been true because a branch of the Eustace family at Robertstown, County Kildare later made an unsuccessful claim to the Baltinglass title.
• Walter Eustace was captured in 1583 and executed.
• Richard Eustace, was living in Paris at the time of the Rebellion arranging for delivery of ammunition and supplies to aid his brothers. He later became a priest in Rome.