Early Life
Talbot was born at Malahide, County Dublin, Ireland, in 1620. The son of Sir William Talbot and Alison (née Netterville). At an early age he entered the Society of Jesus in Portugal. He was ordained a priest at Rome, and for some years thereafter held the chair of theology at the College of Antwerp. In the meantime in the British Isles during the Commonwealth period, Charles II and the royal family were compelled to seek refuge in Europe. Throughout the period of the king's exile, Talbot's brothers were attached to the royal court. The eldest brother, Sir Robert Talbot, Bt., had held a high commission under Lord James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde in the army in Ireland and was now reckoned among the king's most confidential advisers. A younger brother, Colonel Richard Talbot, was also devoted to the cause of the exiled monarch and stood high in royal favour.
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