Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway

Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway (1670-1691) was an Irish soldier who died at the Battle of Aughrim while fighting for the Jacobite cause 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]

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 Frances Lane 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 (1670–1691), was created Viscount of Galway and fell at the Battle of Aughrim fighting for the Jacobites;[3][lower-alpha 1] Margaret (1673–1744), first married Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount of Iveagh, and then Thomas Butler of Garryricken;[4][lower-alpha 1] William, died childless in France;[5][lower-alpha 1] Honora (c. 1675 – 1698), married 1st Patrick Sarsfield and 2nd the Duke of Berwick.[6]

Ulick's half-brothers
His half-brothers were: Richard (died after 1708), became the 8th Earl of Clanricarde;[7] John (1642–1722), became the 9th Earl of Clanricarde.[8] Thomas (died 1688), killed at the Siege of Buda, Hungary;[9][lower-alpha 1][lower-alpha 2][10]

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,[11] who married his sister, Honora Burke.

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway.[12]

Marriage and child

He married Frances Lane, daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough, by whom he had a daughter who some sources say died in infancy.[13] Others reference her as Elizabeth Burke, referred to by Turtle Bunbury as a "celebrated poetess",[14] 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.[15]

Williamite war

Main article: Ballymore, County Westmeath § The Siege of Ballymore

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.[16]

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

References

1. Lodge by error ignores 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 24: "... [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. 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."
4. 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."
5. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 26: "William died in his minority in France."
6. Burke 2005, p. 21: "Honora de Burgh was born C 1675 at Portumna Castle, Co. Galway."
7. 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."
8. Cokayne 1913, p. 234: "9. JOHN (BOURKE), EARL OF CLANRICARDE & [I.], br. and h. male by full blood. He was born 1642 ..."
9. Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 11: "Thomas, who was killed in 1688 at the siege of Buda, in Hungary, then possessed by the Turks ..."
10. Burke 1869, p. 228, left column, line 6: "Thomas, killed at Buda."
11. Wauchope p.89
12. "The Monckton-Arundell Family of Serlby Hall: A Brief History", The University of Nottingham
13. Ulick Burke Clanricarde (5th Earl of), and John Smith De Burgh Clanricarde (11th Earl of). The Memoirs and Letters, J. Hughs, 1757]
14. Sir Thomas Blake and Elizabeth Burke in "The Blakes of Menlo Castle", Turtle Bunbury, 2005-2014.
15. A History of Burke in Ireland, Jim Burke, p. 55, 2005.
16. Wauchope p.234

• Burke, Jim (2005), A History Of Burke in Ireland – Jim Burke!
• Burke, Bernard (1869), A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (31st ed.), London: Harrison
• Cokayne, George Edward (1892), The 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)

Bibliography

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

External links

• Genealogy of Ulick Bourke, 1st Viscount Galway on The Peerage website