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Viscount TaaffeThe title of Viscount Taaffe was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1628. The Viscount bears the subsidiary title of Baron of Ballymote (1628). Viscounts Taaffe (1628) - Sir John Taaffe, 1st Viscount Taaffe (d. before 1641/2).
- Theobald Taaffe, 2nd Viscount Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford (d. 1677)
- Nicholas Taaffe, 3rd Viscount Taaffe, 2nd Earl of Carlingford (d. 2 July 1690, at the Battle of the Boyne).
- Francis Taaffe, 4th Viscount Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford (1639-1704), an Austrian Field-marshal and knight of the Golden Fleece
- Theobald Taaffe, 5th Viscount Taaffe, 4th and last Earl of Carlingford (d. 24 November 1738); fought against the Turks.
- Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe (abt 1685 - 30 December 1769). General Feldwachtmeister, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, chancellor of duke Leopold of Lorraine, he entered Austrian service, and lost his Irish estates to a Protestant relative under the reign of Queen Anne.
- Count Rudolph Taaffe, 7th Viscount Taaffe (6 October1762 - 7 June1830), returned to Ireland and was summoned to Parliament in 1798 but as a Roman Catholic could not take his seat.
- Francis John Charles Joseph Rudolph Taaffe, 8th Viscount Taaffe (23 May 1788 - 8 February 1849), served in the Austrian army.
- Count Louis Patrick John Taaffe, 9th Viscount Taaffe, Count of the Holy Roman Empire (25 December1791-21 December1855), was a chamberlain to the Austrian Emperor.
- Count Charles Rudolph Francis Joseph Clement Taaffe, 10th Viscount Taaffe (26 April 1823 - 19 November1873).
- Count Edward Francis Joseph Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (24 February1833-29 November1895), prime minister of Austria from 1879 to 1893.
- Henry Taaffe, 12th Viscount Taaffe (22 May1872-25 July1928). His peerage became forfeit, under terms of the Titles Deprivation Act, in consequence of having borne arms against Britain in World War I.
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