accustomed as you were

Founder of a dynasty and builder of a stately home,
with momentary glimpses of assigned national power,
you endowed a long line of successive Thynns
with lineage awareness. We salute your visionary intent.
Relentless in ruthless pursuit of personal goals,
you boldly promoted an egocentric ideal,
keel-hauling your many (reprisal-bent)
enemies beneath the hulk of your princely monument.
Pondering naught other than the "good reason"
of seasonable self-interest, you trod the plodded
road of wishful ambition, devoid of glory,
but a story full of privately entrenched enrichment.
The jutting chin and scowling glare pronounce
determined resolution with a bounce.