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Ulick Burke
Viscount Galway
Tenure1687–1691
Bornc. 1670
Died12 July 1691
Spouse(s)Frances Lane
Issue
Detail
A daughter probably called Elizabeth
FatherWilliam Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
MotherHelen MacCarty

Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway (English: /ˈjlɪk/; YOO-lik; c. 1670 – 1691) was an Irish army officer slain at the Battle of Aughrim while fighting for the Jacobites during the Williamite War in Ireland.

Birth and origins

Family tree
Ulick Burke with wife, parents, and selected relatives.[a]
William
Burke

d. 1626
Joan
O'Shaugh-
nessy
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
Elizabeth
Lane

d. 1713
Michael
10th Earl

1686–1726
Anne
Smith

d. 1733
Legend
XXXUlick
Burke
XXXEarls of
Clanricarde

Ulick was born about 1670[1] a younger son of William Burke and his second wife, Helen MacCarty. His father was the 7th Earl of Clanricarde.

Ulick's mother was his father's second wife. She was a daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty,[2] and therefore belonged to the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a Gaelic Irish family that descended from the kings of Desmond.[3]

Ulick was one of four siblings, who are listed in his father's article. He also had half-siblings from his father's first marriage, who are also listed in his father's article.

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, who married Ulick's sister, Honora Burke.[4]

Viscount Galway

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway.[5] This was the second creation of the latter title.

Marriage and child

In 1688 Galway, as he was now, married a daughter of George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough, by his second wife Frances, daughter of Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset.[6] His wife's name is given either as Elizabeth[7] or as Frances.[8][9] Ulick's wife remarried to Henry Fox after his death and died in 1713.

According to sources, the marriage was either childless,[6] or Ulick and Elizabeth had a daughter who some sources say died in infancy.[8] Others identify her as the Elizabeth Burke, that is described by Turtle Bunbury as a "celebrated poetess",[10] 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.[11]

James II in Ireland and the Williamite war

Galway took his seat at the Lords during the Patriot Parliament in 1689.[12] Following the start of Protestant resistance to the Catholic James II, Galway raised a regiment of foot in Connaught to serve in the Irish Army. Viscount Galway served actively during the war, and was killed along with many senior Jacobite officers at the 1691 Battle of Aughrim.[13]

The Galway title was subsequently made into an earldom and awarded to Henri de Massue, a French Huguenot commander in the Williamite forces.[14][15]

Arms

Coat of arms of Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway
Crest
A Cat-a-Mountain sejant Ermine, charged on the breast with a mullet Sable.
Escutcheon
Or, a cross Gules in the first quarter a lion rampant Sable a mullet for difference.
Supporters
Dexter, a Griffin Azure ducally gorged and beaked Or, armed Gules;
Sinister, a lion Sable ducally gorged Or, armed Gules.[16][17]
Motto
UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ^ Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.

Citations

  1. ^ Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 24a. "... [Ulick] was b. [born] 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. ^ O'Hart 1892, p. 122. "Cormac MacCarty Mor, Prince of Desmond (see the MacCarty Mór Stem, No. 115,) had a second son, Dermod Mór, of Muscry (now Muskerry) who was the ancestor of MacCarthy, lords of Muscry and earls of Clan Carthy."
  4. ^ Wauchope 2004, p. 994, right column, line 32. "About this time, probably at the end of 1689, Sarsfield married Lady Honora Burke ..."
  5. ^ Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 24b. "... was cr. 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin, co. Galway and Viscount of Galway [I.]"
  6. ^ a b Hawkins 2009, paragraph 2. "He married (30 July 1688) Frances Lane (1674–1713), daughter of the 1st Viscount Lanesborough (qv) and granddaughter of the 5th earl of Dorset; they had no children."
  7. ^ Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 25. "He [Ulick] m. Elizabeth, da. of George (Lane), 1st Viscount Lanesborough [I.] by his 2d wife, Frances, da. of Richard (Sackville), 5th Earl of Dorset."
  8. ^ a b Burke 1866, p. 93, left column. "He m. [married] Frances only dau. [daughter] of George Lane, viscount Lanesborough and by her (who m. 2ndly Henry Fox, Esq., of East Horsley, co. Surrey.) had an only dau. who d. in infancy."
  9. ^ Clanricarde 1757, p. xvi. "He [Ulick] married Frances, only daughter to George Lane, lord viscount Lanesborough, who died in August 1684, sister to James viscount Lanesborough who died without issue the same month 1724, and by her, who in 1691 remarried with Henry Fox of East Horsley in Surry, Esq.; and died in December 1713; had an only daughter, which died an infant."
  10. ^ [1] Sir Thomas Blake and Elizabeth Burke in "The Blakes of Menlo Castle", Turtle Bunbury, 2005-2014.
  11. ^ Burke 2005, p. [2].
  12. ^ Cokayne 1913, p. 633. "Bourke Vst. Gallway."
  13. ^ Boulger 1911, p. 243. "Lord Galway and Lord Dillon (Theobald) were killed."
  14. ^ Cokayne 1892, p. 9, line 41. "... [Massue] was cr. 25 November 1692 Baron Postarlington and Viscount Galway [I.] and subsequently 12 May 1697 Earl of Galway [I.] ..."
  15. ^ "Burke, Ulick | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  16. ^ Burke, John; Burke, Bernard (1844). Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland, Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms. H. G. Bohn.
  17. ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London : Harrison & sons.

Sources

Further reading

  • Wauchope, Piers. Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War. Irish Academic Press, 1992.
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Viscount Galway
1687–1691
Extinct