O'Higgins family
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O'Higgins (Irish: Ó hUiginn) is an Irish noble family. Its Ballynary line is descended from Shean Duff O'Higgins (fl. 1600 C.E.), Gaelic Baron of Ballynary, who was married to a daughter of the royal family of O'Conor at Ballintuber Castle in Connacht. Shean Duff O'Higgins himself claimed descent from King Niall of Tara (d. 450 C.E.).[1][2][3] Historically, many of their ancestors were poets and scholars who enjoyed the patronage of several chiefly families including O'Conor Don, MacDermott, O'Doherty, O'Gara, and MacDonagh.
O'Higgins Ó hUiginn | |
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Parent house | Southern Uí Néill |
Country | Kingdom of Connacht |
Etymology | Irish |
Titles | Kingdom of Connacht
Kingdom of Spain Jacobite Peerage |
O'Higgins are counted among the Gaelic nobility as a sept of the royal house of O'Neill.[4][5] Members of this family were further ennobled in 1724 by James Francis Edward Stuart (Jacobite pretender to the throne of England and Ireland) during his exile in France. A branch that emigrated to Spanish America was ennobled in the Spanish nobility in 1795 and 1796 by Charles IV of Spain; later members of this branch became prominent in the liberation and politics of republican Chile.