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.

Life

He was the son of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde of County Galway and his second wife Helen MacCarty. Two of his half-brothers Richard and John successively succeeded his father as Earl. Ulick was the brother-in-law of Jacobite leader Patrick Sarsfield,[1] who married his sister, Honora Burke.

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway.[2] He married Frances Lane, daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough, by whom he had a daughter who died in infancy.[3]

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.[4] He was married to Frances Lane, daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough, but had no children before his death.

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

References

  1. ↑ Wauchope p.89
  2. ↑ "The Monckton-Arundell Family of Serlby Hall: A Brief History", The University of Nottingham]
  3. ↑ Ulick Burke Clanricarde (5th Earl of), and John Smith De Burgh Clanricarde (11th Earl of). The Memoirs and Letters, J. Hughs, 1757
  4. ↑ Wauchope p.234

Bibliography

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