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Earl Landaff

Extinct title in the peerage of Ireland

Summary

Extinct title in the peerage of Ireland

Field	Value
name	Earldom of Landaff
image	[[File:Coronet of a British Earl.svg	150px	centre]][[File:Blason Comte-de-Flandre.svg	180px	Arms of the Earl Landaff]]
caption	Arms: Or, a Lion rampant Sable. Crest:* On a Mount Vert, a Moorcock proper. Supporters: On either side a Unicorn Argent, armed maned tufted hoofed plain collared and chained Or.*
creation_date	22 November 1797
monarch	King George III
peerage	Peerage of Ireland
first_holder	Francis Mathew, 1st Viscount Landaff
last_holder	Francis Mathew, 2nd Earl Landaff
remainder_to	The 1st Earls’s heirs male of the body lawfully begotten
subsidiary_titles	Viscount Landaff
Baron Landaff
status	Extinct
extinction_date	12 March 1833
former_seat	Thomastown Castle
motto	A FYNNO DUW A FYDD
(What God wills will be)

Baron Landaff (What God wills will be)

Arms of Mathew, Earls Landaff, in Landaff Cathederal

Thomastown Castle, [[County Tipperary]], the seat of the Earls Landaff, 1824.

Mural memorial tablet erected 1987 in Llandaff Cathedral: "In memory of Thomas James Mathew son and heir of Francis James Mathew second Earl of Landaff born in London 1798 died in Cape Town 1862". The arms are blasoned: ''Or, a lion rampant sable''. Crest: ''A heathcock proper''. Supporters: ''Two unicorns rampant silver maned tufted hooved collared and chained or''. Motto: ''A Fynno Duw a Fydd'' ("What God wills will be")

Earl Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1797 for Francis Mathew, 1st Viscount Landaff, who had previously represented County Tipperary in the Irish House of Commons. He had already been created Baron Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, in 1783, and Viscount Landaff, of Thomastown in the County of Tipperary, in 1793, also in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1800 he was elected as one of the 28 original Irish representative peer. He was succeeded by his son, the second Earl. The titles became extinct on his death in 1833. Thomastown Castle was the childhood home of Father Theobald Mathew, "The Apostle of Temperance".

The Earls Landaff used the invented courtesy title Viscount Mathew for the heir apparent. Despite their territorial designations and the fact that they were in the Peerage of Ireland, the titles all referred to the place in Glamorgan now spelt Llandaff. The Mathew family was founded by Sir David Mathew (died 1484), Grand Standard Bearer of England. The Earls Landaff were descended from the branch of the family seated at Radyr, Glamorgan, Wales, descended from Thomas Mathew (died 1470), a younger son of Sir David Mathew. In Llandaff Cathedral, nearby Radyr, there exist three 15th-century and 16th-century Mathew family effigies.

The seat of the Mathew family was Thomastown Castle, County Tipperary long abandoned. The extant ruins form a notable landmark. George Mathew sold his estate at Radyr and moved to Thomastown, gaining ownership of the castle through marriage to Elizabeth Poyntz after the death of her first husband, Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, of the Butler family.

Earls Landaff (1797)

Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff (1738–1806)
Francis James Mathew, 2nd Earl Landaff (1768–1833)

Rejected claimants

Arnold Harris Mathew, self-styled de jure 4th Earl Landaff,{{efn|Arnold Harris Mathew (AHM) claimed that his great-grandfather was Francis Mathew, 1st Earl Landaff. AHM put forward his claim to the Garter Principal King of Arms for the title of 4th Earl of Llandaff of Thomastown, County Tipperary in 1890. AHM just had a pedigree placed on official record at the College of Arms. He did not intend to "definitely determine in the customary method his right to the dignity he claim[ed]" by establishing his right to vote at the elections of Irish representative peer. He has been advised that all he could hope to obtain would be the barren title. John H. Matthews, Cardiff archivist, said in 1898 that the number of claimants to the dormant earldom "is legion". In the archivist's opinion, AHM's published pedigree was "too extra-ordinary to commend itself to an impartial mind." The next year AHM changed his mind. In 1899, his petition to the House of Lords, claiming a right to vote, was read and referred to the Lord Chancellor. In his petition, he wrote that Eliza Francesca Povoleri was a spinster and he did not claim she was the daughter of a Marchese and a Contessa. In 1902, the Lord Chancellor, Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury, reported that AHM's claim "is of such a nature that it ought to be referred to the Committee for Privileges; read, and ordered to lie on the Table."

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{{London Gazette. (20 September 1783)
{{London Gazette. (4 January 1794)
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[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10047a.htm Catholic Encyclopedia] Theobald Mathews, Apostle of Temperance
[http://irishantiquities.bravehost.com/tipperary/thomastown/thomastown.html 19th century towers] stand while the 17th Century neo-gothic ramparts have succumbed to neglect and collapsed under the weight of encroaching ivy
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