{{Short description|Irish Jacobite politician and soldier}} '''Simon Luttrell''' (1643 – 28 October 1698) was an Irish [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] politician and soldier.<ref name=CCC>{{cite web |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/luttrell-simon-a4923 |title=Luttrell, Simon |last=Ó Ciardha |first=Éamonn |date=October 2009 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography |publisher= |access-date=17 February 2023 |quote=}}</ref><ref name=DDD>{{cite DNB |wstitle=Luttrell, Simon|last=Gilbert|first=John Thomas |authorlink=John Thomas Gilbert|volume=34}}</ref>
==Biography== Luttrell was the eldest son of [[Thomas Luttrell of Luttrellstown]] and Barbara Sedgrave. He was the elder brother of [[Henry Luttrell (Jacobite commander)|Henry Luttrell]].<ref name=DDD/> Like his brother, he spent much of his early life in France, including at the French court at the [[Palace of Versailles]]. On his return to Ireland in 1672, he married Catherine, daughter of [[Sir Thomas Newcomen, 5th Baronet]]. In 1674 he succeeded to his father's extensive estates in [[County Dublin]].<ref name=CCC/>
In 1687, Luttrell was appointed [[Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin]] and made a member of the [[Privy Council of Ireland]] by the [[Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell|Earl of Tyrconnell]]. He remained loyal to [[James II of England]] after the [[Glorious Revolution]], and in 1689 he was elected as the [[Member of Parliament]] for [[County Dublin (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|County Dublin]] in the short-lived [[Patriot Parliament]].<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 17 February 2023.</ref> Luttrell was also appointed military governor of [[Dublin]]. In this capacity, he raised a regiment of 374 dragoons, prepared Dublin's defences against an awaited assault, and worked with [[Terence MacDermott]] to disarm the city's Protestant inhabitants.<ref name=CCC/> He was [[attainted]] by the Williamite government.<ref name=DDD/>
Following the lifting of the [[Siege of Limerick (1690)|first Siege of Limerick]] in 1690, Luttrell was a member of the delegation which travelled to the Jacobite court at [[Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye]] to call for the removal of Tyrconnell from the viceroyalty. He returned to Ireland on 28 October 1691, shortly after the Jacobite defeat, but Luttrell refused to avail himself of the pardon granted to him under the [[Articles of Limerick]] and left again for France.<ref name=DDD/> There he was given command of a battalion in the [[Irish Brigade (France)|Irish Brigade]] of the [[French Royal Army]]. He served under [[Nicolas Catinat]] in Italy and [[Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme]] in Catalonia during the [[Nine Years' War]]. He died at [[Crest, Drôme]] in 1698. His confiscated estates had been transferred to his younger brother, Henry.<ref name=CCC/>
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