William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde, PC (Ire) ( klan-RIK-ard; died October 1687), was an Irish peer who fought in his youth together with his brother Richard, 6th Earl of Clanricarde under their cousin, Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde against the Parliamentarians in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He succeeded his brother as the 7th Earl in 1666.
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William was a younger son of Sir William Burke and his wife Joan. His father was the third son of Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde. William's mother was a daughter of Dermot O'Shaugnessy of Gort.
William was the younger of two brothers:[4]
- Richard (died 1666), became the 6th Earl of Clanricarde
- William (died 1687)
It is likely that he also had sisters, but nothing seems to be known about them.[original research?]
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William Burke with his two wives, his parents, and selected relatives.[b] |
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His first wife was Lettice Shirley, daughter of Sir Henry Shirley, 2nd Baronet, by Lady Dorothy Devereux and granddaughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. She was born about 1617 and died on 25 September 1655. They had three sons:
- Richard (died after 1708), became the 8th Earl of Clanricarde;
- John (1642–1722), became the 9th Earl of Clanricarde.
- Thomas (died 1688), killed at the Siege of Buda, Hungary;[8][c][d][9]
During William's childhood his uncle Richard was Earl of Clanricarde, the 4th of his name. That uncle died on 12 November 1635 and was succeeded by his cousin Ulick as the 5th Earl and 1st Marquess. Ulick was neutral during the Irish Confederate Wars and fought the Parliamentarians during the Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland. He lost the Battle of Meelick Island in 1650 and surrendered to the Parliamentarians on 28 June 1652. He died in July 1657 and was succeeded by William's brother Richard as the 6th Earl of Clanricarde.
Burke married secondly to Helen, widow of Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana and daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty.[14] The date of this marriage is constrained by the death of her first husband in 1662 or 1664 and the birth of their eldest son in about 1670.
William and Helen had four children:[c]
- Ulick (1670–1691), was created Viscount of Galway and fell at the Battle of Aughrim fighting for the Jacobites;[15][c]
- Margaret (1673–1744), first married Bryan Magennis, 5th Viscount of Iveagh, and then Thomas Butler of Garryricken;[16][c]
- William, died childless in France;[17][c]
- Honora (c. 1675 – 1698), married 1st Patrick Sarsfield and 2nd the Duke of Berwick.
- Thomas (d.1666)
In 1666 his elder brother Richard, the 6th Earl of Clanricarde, died and William eventually succeeded as the 7th Earl of Clanricarde. The date falls into the bracket of the not precisely known date of his second marriage.
Clanricarde, as he now was, became Lord Lieutenant of Galway in 1680 and its Chief Governor in 1687. In 1681 he become a member of the Irish Privy Council.
Clanricarde died in October 1687 and was succeeded by his eldest son Richard as the 8th Earl of Clanricarde. His daughter Honora inherited a fortune of £3,500 from her father.[23]
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Age | Date | Event |
0 | 1615, estimate | Born.[e] |
9–10 | 1625, 27 Mar | Accession of King Charles I, succeeding King James I[24] |
19–20 | 1635, 12 Nov | Cousin Ulick succeeds as the 5th Earl of Clanricarde. |
33–34 | 1649, 30 Jan | King Charles I beheaded.[25] |
36–37 | 1652, 28 Jun | Cousin Ulick, Marquess of Clanricarde, surrendered to the Parliamentarians. |
39–40 | 1655, Sep | His 1st wife dies. |
41–42 | 1657, Jul | Brother Richard succeeded his cousin Ulick as the 6th Earl. |
44–45 | 1660, 29 May | Restoration of King Charles II[26] |
50–51 | 1666, Aug | Succeeded his brother as the 7th Earl of Clanricarde. |
54–55 | 1669, estimate | Married 2ndly Helen MacCarty. |
54–55 | 1670, about | Son Ulick born. |
57–58 | 1673 | Daughter Margaret born.[16] |
58–59 | 1674 | Daughter Honora born, his last child. |
69–70 | 1685, 6 Feb | Accession of King James II, succeeding King Charles II[29] |
71–72 | 1687 | Died |
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Blazened: Or, a cross gules in the first quarter a lion rampant sable.
Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.
Lodge by error ignores Clanricarde's second marriage to Helen and lists all the children as born by Lettice Shirley, his first wife.
There probably is some error here as the siege of Buda was in 1686.
His 1st wife was born about 1617; assuming she was 18 at that time, her marriage would be in 1635; assuming he was 20, gives 1615 as year of his birth.
Citation
Lodge 1789, p. 137. "... he had two sons, viz. Richard, the sixth Earl of Clanricarde; and colonel William who succeeded his brother."
Lodge 1789, p. 138, line 11. "Thomas, who was killed in 1688 at the siege of Buda, in Hungary, then possessed by the Turks ..."
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."
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."
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