Edward Brabazon married Mary Smythe, the daughter of Thomas Smythe Esq. of Surrey,
Clerk of the Green Cloth to
Elizabeth I and his wife Eleanor Hazelrigg, and together they had at least six children. His eldest son predeceased him and his second son,
William, was made
Earl of Meath in 1627. , the third husband of Brabazon's daughter Elizabeth He had at least three daughters (there are thought to have been others who died young): • Elizabeth (died 1647) who married as his second wife
George Montgomery,
Bishop of Meath. After his death she remarried
Sir John Brereton, the King's
Serjeant-at-law (Ireland). Finally, in 1631 she married her early sweetheart,
Sir John Bramston, the
Lord Chief Justice. Her father, when they were young, had forbidden them to marry but her brother evidently approved of the match, which was celebrated at Kilruderry. Her stepchildren were rather perturbed to learn that their father had cherished a lifelong romantic attachment to Elizabeth, whom they described as being a small, fat, red-faced, middle-aged woman, but they quickly came to appreciate her many virtues. • Susannah (died before 1628) who married
Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall and had issue. • Ursula (died 1625) who married
James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Clandeboye; they divorced c.1615. ==References==