Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway

Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway (c. 1670 – 1691) was an Irish army officer who was slain at the Battle of Aughrim while fighting for the Jacobites during the Williamite War in Ireland.

Ulick Burke
Viscount Galway
Reign	1687–1691
Born	About 1670
Died	12 July 1691
Spouse(s)	Frances Lane
Detail Issue A daughter probably called Elizabeth
Father	William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
Mother	Helen MacCarty

Birth and origins

Ulick was born about 1670[1] as the first son of William Burke by his second wife, Helen MacCarty. His father was the 7th Earl of Clanricarde. He already had sons from his first marriage. Ulick's mother was a daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty[2] and therefore belonged to the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a Gaelic Irish family that descended from the kings of Desmond.[3]

Family tree

Ulick Burke with wife, parents, and selected relatives. Ulick 3rd Earl d. 1601 Honora Burke b. c. 1535 Richard 4th Earl 1572–1635 William Burke d. 1626 Joan O'Shaugh- nessy Ulick 1st Marquess 1604–1657 Richard 6th Earl d. 1666 Lettice Shirley c. 1617 –1655 William 7th Earl d. 1687 Helen MacCarty d. 1722 Richard 8th Earl d. aft. 1708 John 9th Earl 1642–1722 Ulick 1st Viscount Galway 1670–1691 Elizabeth Lane d. 1713 Michael 10th Earl 1686–1726 Anne Smith d. 1733 Legend XXX Ulick Burke XXX Earls & Marquesses of Clanricarde Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.

Ulick listed among his siblings
He heads the list of siblings as the eldest:[lower-alpha 1] Ulick (c. 1670 – 1691);[4][lower-alpha 1] Margaret (1673–1744), first married Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount of Iveagh, and then Thomas Butler of Garryricken;[5][lower-alpha 1] William, died childless in France;[6][lower-alpha 1] Honora (c. 1675 – 1698), married 1st Patrick Sarsfield and 2nd the Duke of Berwick.[7]

Ulick's half-brothers
His half-brothers were: Richard (died after 1708), became the 8th Earl of Clanricarde;[8] John (1642–1722), became the 9th Earl of Clanricarde.[9] Thomas (died 1688), killed at the Siege of Buda, Hungary;[10][lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][11]

His father was succeeded by his half-brothers Richard and John as the 8th and the 9th Earl.

Ulick was the brother-in-law of Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield, who married Ulick's sister, Honora Burke.[12]

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway.[13]

Marriage and child

The story of his marriage varies according to the sources. All agree that he married a daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough by his second wife Frances, daughter of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset and that Ulick's wife remarried to Henry Fox after his death and died in 1713. His wife's name is given either as Elizabeth[14] or as Frances.[15][16]

Ulick and Elizabeth had a daughter who some sources say died in infancy.[15] Others reference her as Elizabeth Burke, referred to by Turtle Bunbury as a "celebrated poetess",[17] who later married Sir Thomas Blake, 7th Baronet of Menlo, son of Sir Walter Blake, 6th Baronet of Menlo and Anne Kirwan. They had at least a daughter, Anne, and a son, Sir Ulick Blake, 8th Baronet of Menlo.[18]

Williamite war

Following the outbreak of Protestant resistance to the Catholic James II, Galway raised a regiment of foot in Connaught to serve in the Irish Army. He served actively during the war, and was killed along with many senior Jacobite officers at the 1691 Battle of Aughrim.[19]

The Galway title was subsequently made into an earldom and awarded to Henri de Massue, a French Huguenot commander in the Williamite forces.[20]

Notes

1. Lodge by error omits Clanricarde's second marriage to Helen and lists all the children as born by Lettice Shirley, his first wife.
2. There probably is some error here as the siege of Buda was in 1686.

1. Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 24a: "... [Ulick] was b. about 1670 ..."
2. Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 22: "... being his 1st s. by his second wife Helena, da. of Donogh (MACCARTY) 1st Earl of CLANCARTY ..."
3. O'Hart 1892, p. 122: "CORMAC MACCARTY MOR, Prince of Desmond (see the MacCarty Mór Stem, No. 115,) had a second son, Dermod Mór, of Muscry (now Muskerry) who was the ancestor of MacCarthy, lords of Muscry and earls of Clan Carthy."
4. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 13: "Ulick, created by privy seal, dated at Whitehall, 9 May, and by patent 2 June 1687, baron of Tyaquin in the co. of Galway, and Viscount of Galway; was a nobleman of true courage and endowed with many good qualities; he commanded a regiment of foot in K. James's army; and in that station was killed at Aghrim, 12 July 1691, being not full 22 years old."
5. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 27: "Margaret, born in 1673 and married first in 1689 to Bryan Viscount Magennis, of Iveagh who dying in 1692, she remarried in 1696 with Thomas Butler of Kilcash in the co. of Tipperary, Esq.; where she died his widow, 19 July, 1744."
6. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 26: "William died in his minority in France."
7. Burke 2005, p. 21: "Honora de Burgh was born C 1675 at Portumna Castle, Co. Galway."
8. Cokayne 1913, p. 233: "8. RICHARD (BOURKE), EARL OF CLANRICARDE & [I.], s. and h. by 1st wife. He conformed to the established Church in or before 1681."
9. Cokayne 1913, p. 234: "9. JOHN (BOURKE), EARL OF CLANRICARDE & [I.], br. and h. male by full blood. He was born 1642 ..."
10. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 11: "Thomas, who was killed in 1688 at the siege of Buda, in Hungary, then possessed by the Turks ..."
11. Burke 1869, p. 228, left column, line 6: "Thomas, killed at Buda."
12. Wauchope 2004, p. 994, right column, line 32: "About this time, probably at the end of 1689, Sarsfield married Lady Honora Burke ..."
13. Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 24b: "... was cr. 2 June 1687 BARON OF TYAQUIN, co. Galway and VISCOUNT OF GALWAY [I.]"
14. Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 25: "He [Ulick] m. Elizabeth, da. of George (LANE), 1st VISCOUNT LANESBOROUGH [I.] by his 2d wife, Frances, da. of Richard (SACKVILLE), 5th Earl of DORSET."
15. Burke 1866, p. 93, left column: "He m. Frances only dau. of George Lane, viscount Lanesborough and by her (who m. 2ndly Henry Fox, Esq., of East Horsley, co. Surrey.) had an only dau. who d. in infancy."
16. Clanricarde 1757, p. xvi: "He [Ulick] married Frances, only daughter to George Lane, lord viscount Lanesborough, who died in August 1684, sister to James viscount Lanesborough who died without issue the same month 1724, an by her, who in 1691 remarried with Henry Fox of East Horsley in Surry, Esq.; and died in December 1713; had an only daughter, which died an infant."
17. Sir Thomas Blake and Elizabeth Burke in "The Blakes of Menlo Castle", Turtle Bunbury, 2005-2014.
18. A History of Burke in Ireland, Jim Burke, p. 55, 2005.
19. Boulger 1911, p. 243: "Lord Galway and Lord Dillon (Theobald) were killed."
20. Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 41: "... [Massue] was cr. 25 November 1692 BARON POSTARLINGTON and VISCOUNT GALWAY [I.] and subsequently 12 May 1697 EARL OF GALWAY [I.]nbsp;..."

References

• Boulger, Demetrius Charles (1911). The Battle of the Boyne. London: Martin Secker.
• Burke, Jim (2005). A History Of Burke in Ireland. – Jim Burke!
• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison.
• Burke, Bernard (1869). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (31st ed.). London: Harrison.
• Clanricarde, Ulick Burke Marquess of (1757). Clanricarde, John Smith de Burgo 11th Earl of (ed.). The Memoirs and Letter of Ulick, Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl of St. Albans. London: R. and J. Dodsley.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1892). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. 4 (1st ed.). London: George Bell and Sons. – G to K (for Galway)
• Cokayne, George Edward (1913). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 3 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. – Canonteign to Cutts (for Clanricarde)
• Lodge, John (1789). The Peerage of Ireland. 1. Dublin: James Moore. – Blood royal, dukes, earls (for Clanricarde)
• O'Hart, John (1892). Irish Pedigrees: or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. 1 (5th ed.). Dublin: John Duffy & Co. – Irish Stem
• Wauchope, Piers (2004). "Sarsfield, Patrick, Jacobite first earl of Lucan (d. 1693)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 48. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 993–996. ISBN 0-19-861398-9.

Further reading

• Wauchope, Piers. Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War. Irish Academic Press, 1992.