Henry Heron (soldier) facts for kids

Henry Heron was an Irish soldier of the Tudor era. He was the son of Sir Nicholas Heron, an Englishman who had settled in Ireland and become a leading political and military figure. Henry became a brother-in-law to Sir Henry Bagenal and Dudley Bagenal, sons of another leading settler in Ireland Sir Nicholas Bagenal.

Henry was a landowner in County Carlow, where he became drawn into a violent dispute with the neighboring Kavanaghs. In 1586 along with his brother-in-law Dudley, he took part in an operation that captured and killed a leading Kavanagh. The following year Dudley was killed in a revenge ambush. By 1588 Heron had to petition the Crown for financial relief due to the attacks on his estates.