Earl of Clancarty
| Earldom of Clancarty (2nd creation) | |
|---|---|
George III | |
| Peerage | Peerage of Ireland |
| First holder | William Trench, 1st Viscount Dunlo |
| Present holder | Nicholas Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty |
| Subsidiary titles | Viscount Dunlo Viscount Clancarty (United Kingdom) Baron Kilconnel Baron Trench (United Kingdom) Marquis of Heusden (Netherlands) |
| Status | Extant |
| Former seat(s) | Garbally Court |
| Motto | CONSILIO ET PRUDENTIA (By counsel and prudence) DIEU POUR LA TRENCHE QUICONTRE (If God is for Trench, who can be against) |
| Earldom of Clancarty (1st creation) | |
|---|---|
Donough MacCarty, 4th Earl of Clancarty | |
| Subsidiary titles | Viscount Muskerry Baron of Blarney Baronet 'of Muskerry' |
| Status | Forfeited |
| Extinction date | 11 May 1691 |
| Motto | FORTI ET NIHIL DIFFICILE (Brave and obstinate) |
Earl of Clancarty is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.
History
The title was created for the first time in 1658 in favour of
Indemnity Act 1747, which pardoned Jacobites
.
The title was created for a second time in 1803 in favour of
Ambassador to The Netherlands and sat in the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer from 1808 to 1837. In 1815 he was created Baron Trench, of Garbally in the County of Galway, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom,[4] and in 1823 he was further honoured when he was made Viscount Clancarty, of the County of Cork, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[5] On 8 July 1815 he was entered into the Netherlands Nobility by King William I of the Netherlands and granted by Royal Decree the title Marquess of Heusden (Dutch: Markies van Heusden).[6]
Lord Clancarty's great-grandson,
Several other members of the Trench family have gained distinction. Eyre Trench, brother of the first Earl, was a
House of Commons
.
The Trench family claims French
Huguenot descent,[13] although a Scottish origin is possible. The Barons Ashtown are members of another branch of the family. William Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty, was the great-grandson of Frederick Trench, whose brother the Very Reverend John Trench was the great-grandfather of Frederick Trench, 1st Baron Ashtown
.
Trench Town in Jamaica gets its name from its previous designation as Trench Pen, 400 acres of land once used for livestock by Daniel Power Trench, an Irish immigrant
of the 18th century (descendants of the Earls of Clancarty).
The family seat was Garbally Court, near Ballinasloe, County Galway.
Viscounts Muskerry (1628)
- Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry (died 1641)[14]
- Donough MacCarty, 2nd Viscount Muskerry (1594–1665) (created Earl of Clancarty in 1658)
Earls of Clancarty, first creation (1658)
- Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty (1594–1665)[15]
- Charles MacCarty, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (died 1666)
- Callaghan MacCarty, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (died 1676)
- Donough MacCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty (1668–1734) (forfeit 1691)
Earls of Clancarty, second creation (1803)
- William Power Keating Trench, 1st Earl of Clancarty (1741–1805)
- Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty (1767–1837) (created Marquess of Heusden in the Nobility of the Netherlands in 1815)
- William Thomas Le Poer Trench, 3rd Earl of Clancarty (1803–1872)
- Richard Somerset Le Poer Trench, 4th Earl of Clancarty (1834–1891)
- William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty (1868–1929)
- Richard Frederick John Donough Le Poer Trench, 6th Earl of Clancarty (1891–1971)
- Greville Sydney Rocheforte Le Poer Trench, 7th Earl of Clancarty (1902–1975)
- William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty (1911–1995)
- Nicholas Power Richard Le Poer Trench, 9th Earl of Clancarty (b. 1952)
There is no heir to the earldom or the Marquessate of Heusden.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "No. 15561". The London Gazette. 26 February 1803. p. 205.
- ^ "No. 14064". The London Gazette. 11 November 1797. p. 1081.
- ^ "No. 15326". The London Gazette. 6 January 1801. p. 40.
- ^ "No. 17040". The London Gazette. 15 July 1815. p. 1425.
- ^ "No. 17976". The London Gazette. 18 November 1823. p. 1933.
- prins van Waterloo in reference to his successes as a Field Marshal in ending Napoleon's Hundred Days campaign the previous month on 18 June 1815 near a village in Belgium that shares the name of the title bestowed upon him. Richard Trench, 2nd Earl Clancarty, had replaced the Duke of Wellington as the United Kingdom's representative at the Congress of Vienna during the last few weeks when the latter was forced to leave Vienna to face Napoleon during the Hundred Days campaign. The city of Heusden lies on the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) in the Province of North Brabant, which borders modern-day Belgium in the southern Netherlands.
- ^ Portrait of Belle Bilton in 1889, NPG. Retrieved 30 November 2008. She was Isabel Maud Penrice Bilton (1867 – d 31 December 1906)
- ^ "The Earl of Clancarty Dead: Viscount Dunlo, husband of Belle Bilton, now takes the title"New York Times 30 May 1891. Retrieved 30 November 2008. According to the article, her husband then Viscount Dunlo attempted to divorce her for adultery in July 1890, but the couple were reconciled in August 1890.
- ^ "BELLE BILTON DEAD.; Ex-Actress's Husband, Earl of Clancarty, Was Disowned for Wedding Her." New York Times 1 January 1907. The Countess, who had enjoyed the title since 1891, died at Garbaldy Park, Ballinasloe, County Galway, Ireland. The article notes that the 4th Earl had left all the unentailed property away from his son, but that the entailed property was sufficient for the needs of the new Earl and Countess.
- ^ "Countess of Clancarty" Archived 21 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine Washington Post 10 January 1905. Retrieved 30 November 2008. This mentions the Countess suffering from cancer, and her popularity among the tenantry and landed gentry. It also contains details of the 4th Earl's will:
When the will was opened it was found that [the 4th Earl] had left everything he possibly could away from his oldest son and heir, with whom he had been at daggers drawn since the divorce suit. The possession of the entailed estates, however, was sufficient to relieve Lady Dunlo, who had now become Countess of Clancarty, from any further necessity of remaining on the stage. A lawsuit was started by the new earl to upset his father's will, and ultimately a compromise was effected, whereby he recovered much of the nonentailed residuary property of his father.
Lord and Lady Clancarty have now four sons, the oldest of them twins, and a girl of eleven years of age. Their eldest boy bears the name of Lord Kilconnel. The countess, I may add, is likewise Marshioness Huesden, in the Netherlands.
- ^ Viscount Clancarty, TheyWorkForYou House of Lords, UK.
- ^ Address by the Viscount Clancarty to the UK House of Lords upon the "great privilege to have been returned to your Lordships' House following the recent Cross-Bench by-election" HL Deb 22 July 2010 c1108.
- ^ Stirnet: Trench01 (subscription required to view without interruption)
- ^ Cokayne 1893, p. 425: "Viscountcy [I.] 1. Sir Charles ... was cr. 15 Nov. 1628 Baron Blarney and Viscount Muskerry [I.] ..."
- ^ Cokayne 1889, p. 251: "Clancarty. Earldom [I.] 1. Donough [MacCarty], Viscount Muskerry, was by patent dat. at Brussels 27 Nov., 1658, cr. Earl of Clancarty, co. Cork [I.]"
- George Bell and Sons. – Bra to C (for Clancarty)
- OCLC 1180836840. – L to M (for Muskerry)
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Frederick Le Poer Trench, 5th Earl of Clancarty
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Richard Frederick John Donough Le Poer Trench, 6th Earl of Clancarty
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Greville Sydney Rocheforte Le Poer Trench, 7th Earl of Clancarty
- Location of the medieval stronghold of Blarney Castle, County Cork, seat of the MacCarthy clan, once the kings of Munster and later the viscounts Muskerry and earls of Clancarty (first creation)
- Location of Garbally House, in Ballinasloe Town, County of Galway, Ireland situated on the River Suck and seat of the Trench family, later the barons Kilconnel, earls of Clancarty (second creation) and marquesses of Heusden
- History of the Trench family
