The Earldom of Drogheda was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1661. Other Irish titles held by the Earl include: Viscount Moore (created 1621) and Baron Moore (1616). Furthermore, the Earl is Baron Moore of Cobham in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. That title was created in 1954.
The sixth Earl was created Marquess of Drogheda in 1791 and Baron Moore of Moore Place in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1801, but these titles became extinct on the death without heirs of the third Marquess.
Conversely, one of the leading contractors, the Earl of Lindsey, was with the King when he died at Edge Hill.
The massacre of nearly 3,500 people in Drogheda after its capture â comprising around 2,700 Royalist soldiers and all the men in the town carrying arms, including civilians, prisoners, and Catholic priests â is one of the historical memories that has driven Irish-English and Catholic-Protestant strife during the last three centuries.
At first Charles II encouraged the Earl of Montrose to raise a Highland army to fight on the Royalist side.
[Earls of Kildare by the Marquis of Kildare, Addenda 8.]
The Earl of Kildare, as already noticed, was included with his brother-in-law, the Earl of Desmond, in the impeachment which ended in the death of the latter, during the Viceroyalty of the Earl of Worcester.
On the execution of the Earl of Desmond, Sir Roland was arraigned before the Viceroy, by Sir John Gilbert, for having incited the Earl of Desmond to assume the Kingship of Ireland, and with engaging that he and all the land would accept him in preference to Edward IV.
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