{{Short description|Irish Jacobite politician}} Colonel '''Nicholas Cusack''' (c.1638 – September 1726) was an Irish [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] politician and soldier.<ref name=CCC>{{cite web |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/cusack-nicholas-a2348 |title=Cusack, Nicholas |last=Duignan |first=Aoife |date=October 2009 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |access-date=22 February 2023 }}</ref>
Cusack was the third son of James Cusack of [[Cushinstown]] and Frances, daughter of [[Sir William Talbot, 1st Baronet]] and sister of [[Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell]]. He was a great-grandson of [[Thomas Cusack (Irish judge)|Sir Thomas Cusack]], [[Lord Chancellor of Ireland]].<ref name=CCC/>
In 1683 he married Catherine Keating, daughter of Edward Keating of Narraghmore, [[County Kildare ]] and Elizabeth Eustace, and widow of [[Adam Cusack]], justice of the [[Court of Common Pleas (Ireland)]]. Catherine died in 1699.<ref >''The Irish Genealogist'' (1979) pp.681-4 </ref>
In 1688 he appears on a charter of [[James II of England]] as a [[Burgess (title)|burgess]] of [[Navan]].<ref name=CCC/> In May 1689, he was elected as a [[Member of Parliament]] for [[Trim (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Trim]] in the short-lived [[Patriot Parliament]] summoned by James II.<ref>O'Hart, John, [https://www.libraryireland.com/Pedigrees2/irish-parliament-king-james.php The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689], ''Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation'' (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 21 February 2023. </ref> His brother-in-law [[John Keating (judge)|Chief Justice John Keating]], the brother of his wife Catherine, played a prominent role in the Parliament.<ref >Ball, F.Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921'' London John Murray 1926</ref>
During the [[Williamite War in Ireland]], Cusack initially served as a captain in his uncle, Tyrconnell's, regiment of horse.<ref>CUSACK, Nicholas. [https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/research/researchcentresandnetworks/robertburnsstudies/ourresearch/jacobiteofficersdatabase/thedatabase/c/ Officers of the Jacobite Armies], Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 22 February 2023.</ref> He later became a Jacobite colonel. During the second [[Siege of Limerick (1691)|Siege of Limerick]], he was among the confidants of [[Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan]] who encouraged the Jacobite commander to sue for peace. Following the surrender of Limerick, Cusack was appointed as one of the Jacobite commissioners tasked with negotiating terms with the Williamites, and he was one of the signatories of the [[Articles of Limerick]] on 3 October 1691. He was [[outlawed]] later that year and fled to France where he served in the [[Irish Brigade (France)|Irish Brigade]] of the [[French Royal Army]]. He died at [[Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] in 1726.<ref name=CCC/>
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