Tibbot na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo
Tibbot na Long Bourke Teabóid na Long de Búrca | |
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Risdeárd an Iarainn Bourke (d. 1583) | |
Mother | Grace O'Malley (d. 1603) |
Religion | Catholic |
Sir Tibbot ne Long Bourke | |
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Member of Parliament for County Mayo | |
In office 18 May 1613 – 24 October 1615 | |
Monarch | James I |
Preceded by | New office |
Succeeded by | Thomas Burke |
Tibbot na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo (anglicised as Theobald Bourke; English:
Bourke's name had varying spellings such as "Teabóid" or "Tepóitt" in medieval Irish. Tibbot derived from Thibault, the French for Theobald; and "na Long" meant "of the ships", as he was born on a ship. This was usually rendered in Tudor English as: Tibbott or Tibbot na Long.
MacWilliam lordships
Tibbot's Irish ancestors started with
- Mac William Uachtar (Upper) or Clanricarde, based in County Galway
- Mac William Íochtar (Lower), based in County Mayo
These branches held their lands against Gaelic and Norman opponents in the following centuries and were typical of the
Early life
His mother was the
Tibbot married Maeve, daughter of Donal/Domnhnall
Lower MacWilliam lordship, 1576–1592
From 1541 the new
In 1576 Tibbot's mother submitted to
In November 1580 Richard made a favourable peace with Grey, the next lord deputy, having mustered a show of force. At the time Grey was fully engaged in crushing the Second Desmond Rebellion. Richard was now recognised as an autonomous clan chief by the Crown, uniquely without having to adopt surrender and regrant, in a deed dated 16 April 1581.[4]
By 1585 Grace was ruling the Lower MacWilliam Burke lordship with Tibbot, now aged 19. That year the next lord deputy, Sir John Perrott, decided to secure the province in the "Composition of Connaught" and Tibbot was taken hostage to ensure Grace's compliance with the Composition. While a prisoner Tibbot learnt English and married Maeve, daughter of Donal O'Conor Sligo.
In 1586 the Lower MacWilliam clan remained divided over Perrott's opinion on the clan succession. Tibbot was freed by Richard Bingham to help Perrott's policy, but joined in the rebellion. By 1587 he sought a truce, followed by another rebellion in 1589 and a final peace in March 1590. By this point he was the recognised clan chief, and accepted the terms of the composition, paying his arrears of chief rent to the Crown.
However, on the escape of
Nine Years' War
- For a more detailed account of his activities during the war, see the life of his rival: Tibbot MacWalter Kittagh Bourke
On the approach to the
In April 1594 Grace visited Elizabeth again, and finally secured favourable terms of surrender and regrant for Tibbot. The timing of this visit subsequently made a huge difference to him, as the Nine Years' War was starting; as a result The O'Donnell arranged in 1595 for another MacWilliam Burke cousin, Tibbot Kittagh, to replace him as clan chief. Tibbot soon regained his position in Mayo, and unsurprisingly would not join O'Donnell and his main ally
1600s
In 1603
He also represented the smaller local clans in their property registration dealings with the Dublin administration, but seems to have ended up with most of their lands by his death. His own tenants paid rent in kind under the metayage system, known in Ireland as "cuttings and spendings", delivering him about a quarter or third of each crop. Given the wet Irish climate, this method was probably more realistic than expecting a fixed cash rent.[8] His son Miles received such an annual rent from Murrisk in 1633: £3 in cash, a beef animal, 40 quarts of butter, a basin of meal and a basin of malt.[9]
1613–1629
In 1613–15 Tibbot was one of the two MPs from Mayo in the
The
While Tibbot remained Catholic, he ensured that for political reasons his son Miles conformed to the Anglican church and was educated at
Family
Tibbot married in 1585 to Maeve/Maud, daughter of Charles
- Miles, 2nd viscount, d.1649;[13] m. 1stly Honora Burke; 2ndly Isabella Freake
- David, died childless in 1677; m. 1stly Mary O'Donnell; 2ndly Miss Howard
- Theobald Riabach, d. 1654 in Spain; m. Miss Burke of Turlough
- Richard, m. Anne McMahon
Miles's descendants ran down to the 8th viscount, who died in 1767. Thereafter three of Richard's descendants were potential claimants until 1814, but never took their seats in parliament.[14]
An Tighearna Mhaigheo/Lord Mayo
David Murphy, a native of County Mayo, is one of two men credited by Captain Francis O'Neill with composing the air, An Tighearna Mhaigheo/Lord Mayo (the other being Thady Ó Cianáin).[15]
O'Neill gives this account of its composition:
"The circumstances which led to its inspiration were as follows: David Murphy undoubtedly a man of genius, who had been taken under the protection of Lord Mayo (Tibbet na Long Bourke, 1st Viscount Mayo, 1567–1629) through benevolent motives, incurred his patron’s displeasure by some misconduct. Anxious to propitiate his Lordship, Murphy consulted a friend, Capt. Finn, of Boyle, Roscommon. The latter suggested that an ode expressive of his patron’s praise, and his own penitence, would be the most likely to bring about the desired reconciliation."
"The result was in the words of the learned Charles O’Conor, “the birth of one of the finest productions for sentiment and harmony, that ever did honor to any country.”"
"Apprehensive that the most humble advances would not soften his Lordship’s resentment. Murphy concealed himself after nightfall in Lord Mayo’s hall on Christmas Eve, and at an auspicious moment poured forth his very soul in words and music, conjuring him by the birth of the Prince of Peace, to grant him forgiveness in a strain of the finest and most natural pathos that ever distilled from the pen of man. Two stanzas will show the character of his alternating sentiments.
Mayo whose valor sweeps the field
And swells the trump of Fame;
May Heaven's high power thy champion shield,
And deathless be his name.
O! bid the exiled Bard return,
Too long from safety fled;
No more in absence let him mourn
Till earth shall hide his head.
Arms
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See also
- Burke Civil War 1333–38
- Earl of Mayo
- Mac William Uachtar (Clanricarde)
- Ireland 1536–1691
References
Citations
- ISBN 978-1-90-1658-65-1.
- ^ "Modern Drunkard Magazine". web.archive.org. 13 December 2009. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Chambers, Anne (2003). Ireland's Pirate Queen: The True Story of Grace O'Malley. New York: MJF. pp. 65–66.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. pp. 42–43.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. p. 66.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. p. 72.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. p. 109.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. pp. 113–114.
- ^ Chambers. Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. p. 141.
- ^ Chambers. Ireland's Pirate Queen. pp. 133–136.
- ^ Chambers. Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. p. 140.
- ^ "Bourke (Burke), Theobald (Teabóid na Long, Tibbott-na-Long) | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ "Bourke (Burke), Miles (Meiler) | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
- ^ Chambers. Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley. pp. 193–195.
- ^ "An Tighearna Mhaigheo/Lord Mayo (Irish Folk Song) (Ireland)". www.8notes.com. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
- ^ Clark, Hugh; Wormull, Thomas (1779). The Peerage of the Nobility of England, Scotland, and Ireland: Containing Their Titles, Date of Their Creations, Description of Their Arms. Dublin: C. Talbot. p. 181. Retrieved 4 September 2017.
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- ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
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