Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

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Ulick Burke
Frances Walsingham

Ulick MacRichard Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde, 5th Earl of Clanricarde, 2nd Earl of St Albans (English:

Marquess of Clanricarde
(1646).

Birth and origins

Family tree
Ulick Burke with wife, parents, and selected relatives.[a]
Ulick
3rd Earl
d. 1601		Honora
Burke
b. c. 1535
Richard
4th Earl
1572–1635		Frances
Walsingham
1567–1633		William
Burke
d. 1626		Joan
O'Shaugh-
nessy
Ulick
1st Marquess
1604–1657		Anne
Compton		Richard
6th Earl
d. 1666		William
7th Earl
d. 1687		Lettice
Shirley
c. 1617 – 1655
Richard
8th Earl
d. aft. 1708		John
9th Earl
1642–1722		Mary
Talbot
d. 1711
Michael
10th Earl
1686–1726		Anne
Smith
d. 1733
Legend
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the article		XXXEarls & Marquesses
of Clanricarde		XXXEarls of
Clancarty

Ulick was the son of

Sir Francis Walsingham
.

The Marquess's English residence, Somerhill House
Portumna Castle: The Marquess's Irish residence

Marriage

In 1622, Ulick married Anne Compton, daughter of William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton, and his wife, Elizabeth Spencer.[1]

Ulick and Anne had an only child, Margaret (died 1698), who married:

Early career

Ulick was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Burgh in 1628, and succeeded his father as 5th Earl of Clanricarde in 1635.[1] In 1636, he inherited Somerhill House on the death of his father.[2] He was a staunch opponent of the policies of the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, who had attempted to seize much of the great Burke inheritance in Connacht for the Crown; there was also personal ill-feeling between the two men since the dispute was thought by many to have hastened the death of Ulick's elderly father. He sat in the Short Parliament of 1640 and attended King Charles I on the Scottish expedition.[1] Charles, unlike Strafford, liked and trusted Lord Clanricarde.

Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Somerhill was sequestered by

Protestant nobles (he being Catholic). He did not join the Catholic Confederate Ireland, but instead helped to broker a military alliance between the Confederates and English Royalists. He commanded the forces of this alliance during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, after Lord Ormonde fled the country, and soldiers of his Connaught army helped to win a minor victory at the Battle of Tecroghan. Only a few months later, however, his army was wiped out during the Battle of Meelick Island. Clanricarde was a skilful diplomat but not a great soldier. Like Ormonde, Clanricarde was distrusted by most Catholics in Ireland (he was widely considered to be a friend of the notorious Charles Coote
) and thus was thus not capable of halting the Parliamentarian conquest of the country. He was also widely regarded as a man whose actions were governed almost entirely by self-interest.

Later life

In 1652, Lord Clanricarde made peace with the victorious

Restoration of Charles II in the Act of Settlement 1662. On his death, the marquessate became extinct; the earldom passed to his cousin Richard.[3][4]

Arms

Coat of arms of Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde
Crest
A Cat-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.
Escutcheon
Or, a cross gules in the first quarter a lion rampant sable.
Supporters
Two Cats-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or.[5][6]
Motto
UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Also see the mention of his daughter in the text.

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Yorke, Philip Chesney (1911). "Clanricarde, Ulick de Burgh, Marquess of". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 421–422.
  2. ^ a b Colbran, John (1840). Colbran's New Guide for Tunbridge Wells. Cornhill, London: A H Bailey & Co. pp. 332–33. (p 332, p 333)
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 December 2021. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ "Burke, Ulick | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  5. ^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.
  6. ^ 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.

Sources

Further reading

Peerage of Ireland
New creation
Marquess of Clanricarde

1646–1657 		Extinct
Preceded by Earl of Clanricarde
1635–1657 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Viscount Bourke of Clanmories
1650–1657 		Extinct
Peerage of England
Preceded by Earl of St. Albans
1635–1657 		Extinct
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