Sir John Cruys or Cruise (died 1407) was a prominent Irish military commander, diplomat and judge of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. He was one of the most substantial landowners in County Dublin and County Meath and built Merrion Castle near Dublin City in the 1360s. His marriage to the heiress of the powerful Verdon family of Clonmore brought him in addition substantial lands in County Louth.[1] He sat in the Irish Parliament and was a member of the King's Council.[2] He was a highly regarded public servant, but also a determined and acquisitive man of business, who fought a ten-year battle to establish his wife's right to her inheritance.[1]
Simon Cruys (died after 1366) and his wife and cousin Margaret Cruys, daughter and heiress of JohnCruys of Cruisetown, County Louth. The Cruys or Cruise...
same name. The Cruys family from County Dublin owned the manor in medieval times. The inquisition taken after the death of Sir JohnCruys of Merrion Castle...
Elvington, Yorkshire; and Margaret, wife of John Duket, "his nearest heirs and of full age". Nicholas de Meones JohnCruys Chronicon Angliæ, 1328–88; Sir G. F...
century, the manor of Stillorgan (Stalorgan) was held by the Cruise or Cruys family, from whom it passed to the Derpatrick family, and subsequently to...
A royal writ survives from 1381 ordering him to grant to JohnCruys (this was Sir JohnCruys or Cruise of Booterstown and Mount Merrion, a prominent soldier...
le Deveneys, who died in 1319. Later in the century the new owner, Sir JohnCruys, built Merrion Castle on the site. Walter also had a townhouse in Dublin...
in the year 1210. The Fitzwilliams inherited Merrion Castle from Sir JohnCruys, who built the castle on lands which are today the property of the Sisters...
Thomas Verdon at Rathmore, County Meath (these later reverted to Sir JohnCruys and his wife Matilda, Verdon's daughter and son-in-law). He was regularly...
his judicial colleague Walter de Islip. It subsequently passed to Sir JohnCruys (died 1407), who built Merrion Castle on the site in the 1360s, and later...
Castle, Sir John's principal dwelling, subsequently became the main Fitzwilliam residence, although Sir John had a son, Sir Thomas Cruys, who inherited...
to England, along with Windsor, Stephen de Valle, Bishop of Meath, Sir JohnCruys of Thorncastle and others, to answer for their conduct. The English Privy...
who was the grandson of the prominent landowner and politician, Sir JohnCruys of Thorncastle. They had at least one daughter Alice. The leading politician...
Castle about 1280. In about 1366 Merrion came into the possession of Sir JohnCruys or Cruise, a leading landowner, diplomat and soldier, who died in 1407...
Renialme, for a sale of June 27, 1657, lists as no. 137 Een Christus aen 't cruys, van Van der Brugge, there valued at 150 guilders; possibly this painting...
builders of locks, fortresses, shipwrights, and seamen—including Cornelis Cruys, a vice-admiral who became, under Franz Lefort, the tsar's advisor in maritime...
and battleship Potemkin mutiny until his assassination in 1906. Cornelius Cruys, Vice admiral, the first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet Osip Mikhailovich...
Bjellebø Bayegan (born 1943), Norway's first female prost or dean Cornelius Cruys, (1655–1727), first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet Dagny Berger (1903–1950)...
and 1703. The first commander was a recruited Dutch admiral, Cornelius Cruys, who in 1723 was succeeded by Count Fyodor Apraksin. In 1703, the main base...
King's Bench in Ireland and his second wife Marion Cruys (or Cruise), daughter of Sir Christopher Cruys; he was a first cousin of another Sir Thomas Plunket...
experience, to serve in the Russian Navy, such as the Norwegian-Dutch Cornelius Cruys, the Greek Ivan Botsis, or the Scotsman Thomas Gordon. In 1718, the Admiralty...
from the death of Robert de Cruys, the previous holder, and in particular how much was held from the King directly. The Cruys family became among the foremost...
engraver Cornelis de Bruijn (1652–1726/27), artist and traveler Cornelis Cruys (1655–1727), first commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet Cornelis Dusart...
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