Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin

Dermod McMurrough O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin (October 1594 – 29 December 1624) was an Irish baron.^[1]

Biography

Dermod, who was born in October 1594, was the son of Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin and his wife Mabel, daughter of Christopher Nugent, 5th Baron Delvin.^[2]

Family

Dermod O'Brien married Ellen, eldest daughter of Sir Edmund FitzJohn FitzGerald of Cloyne and Ballymaloe House in County Cork,^[2] from that powerful Hiberno-Norman family. They had three sons,^{[3][lower-alpha 1]} and several daughters:

• Murrough, 6th Baron Inchiquin, their eldest son, became the first Earl of Inchiquin.^[2][6]
• Henry (d. 1645),^[2] a Lieutenant Colonel in the army of King Charles I.^[4] He never married.^[3]
• Christopher (died 1664),^[2] a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Irish Confederate Army, who was created "Baron of Inchiquin," by the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation.^[4] He never married.^[3]
• Honora,^[7] who married Anthony Stoughton of Rattoo, County Kerry.^[4]
• Mary,^[1] married Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had with him a daughter, Eleanor (who became the wife of the William Hill of Hillsborough, M.P.,^[8] and mother to Michael Hill (1672–1699) M.P.) through whom Lord Inchiquin became an ancestor of Elizabeth II.
• Ann, died unmarried^[4]

Ancestors

Ancestors of Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin

16. Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond               8. Dermod O'Brien, 2nd Baron Inchiquin                       17. Eleanor FitzGerald               4. Murrough O'Brien, 3rd Baron Inchiquin                             18. Donough O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Thomond               9. Margaret O'Brien                       19. Helen Butler               2. Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin                                   20. John Cusack               10. Sir Thomas Cusack                       21. Alison Wellesley               5. Margaret Cusack                             22. George Darcy               11. Maud Darcy                       1. Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin                                         24. Christopher Nugent               12. Richard Nugent, 5th Baron Delvin                       25. Marian Lawrence               6. Christopher Nugent, 6th Baron Delvin                             26. Jenico Preston, 3rd Viscount Gormanston               13. Elizabeth Preston                       27. Katherine FitzGerald               3. Mabel Nugent                                   28. Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare               14. Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare                       29. Elizabeth Grey               7. Mary FitzGerald                             30. Sir Anthony Browne               15. Mabel Browne                       31. Alice Gage

See also

• Early Barons Inchiquin
• Baron Inchiquin
• O'Brien Pedigree

References

1. John O'Hart states that there were two sons called Christopher and the first died as an infant.^[4] However Lucius, 13th Lord Inchiquin in his "Petition..." states that there were only three brothers,^[3] and Darryl Lundy citing Cokayne and Mosley only mentions one Christopher.^[5]

1. Lundy 2012, p. 10284 § 102833 cites Cokayne 2000, p. 193
2. Lundy 2012, p. 10284 § 102833 cites Mosley 2003, vol. 2, p. 2035
3. Inchiquin 1861, p. 67.
4. O'Hart 2007, p. 129.
5. Lundy 2012, p. 10284 § 102833.
6. Bagwell 1888, p. 320.
7. Lundy 2012, p. 10284 § 102833 cites Mosley 2003, vol. 1, p. 400
8. AAM staff 1852, p. 506.

References

• AAM staff (July–December 1852), The Anglo-American Magazine (Toronto: Maclear) 1: 506 Missing or empty |title= (help)
•  Bagwell, Richard (1888), "O'Brien, Murrough (1614-1674)", in Stephen, Leslie, Dictionary of National Biography 16, London: Smith, Elder & Co, pp. 320–327
• Inchiquin, Lucius Lord of (1861) [1765], "The Petition of the right Honourable Lucius Baron of Inchiquin (otherwise Inskwyne), of that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called Ireland.", Case of the Right Honourable Lucius, lord Inchiquin in the peerage of Ireland on his claiming the right to vote at the election of representative peers for Ireland. ..., pp. 66–70
• Lundy, Darryl (22 Oct 2012), Dermot O'Brien, 5th Baron of Inchiquin, thepeerage.com, p. 10284 § 102833, retrieved October 2013 Endnotes:
  • Cokayne, G.E. (2000), Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, eds., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant 1 (nee, 1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 193
  • Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 1 (107th, 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage, p. 400
  • Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 2 (107th, 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage, p. 2035
• O'Hart, John (2007), The Irish And Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry, When Cromwell Came to Ireland: Or, a Supplement to Irish Pedigrees (reprint ed.), Heritage Books, p. 129, ISBN 9780788419270