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 230 CLANRICARDE of Edmund (Butler), i st Baron Dunboyne, da. of Cormac Oge MacCarty, of Muskerry. Within three or four years he put her away. She was living about i58o.(*) He d. 24 July 1582. III. 1582. 3. Ulick (Bourke, otherwise de Burgh), Earl of Clanricarde, iSz. [I.], s. and h., being only s. by ist wife, sat in the Pari. [1.] of 1585, and had grant of divers lands in Connaught and in England. He steadily supported the English during Tyrone's rebellion, 1 598-1 601. App. Commander of the Forces in Connaught, 9 Jan. 1 599/ 1 600. He »?., 25 Nov. 1564, at Athenry, co. GalwayjC") Honora, da. of John Burke, of Clogheroka, and Tullyra, co. Galway. He d. 20 May i6oi.() His widow was living in 161 5, and then aged 80. IV. 1601. 4. Richard (Bourke, otherwise de Burgh), Earl of Clanricarde, i^c. [I.], 2nd but ist surv. s. and h.() He matric. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.) 18 Dec. 1584, being then aged 12. M.A. 10 July 1598, as Ban de Dunkellyn. He greatly distinguished himself against the rebels under the Earl of Tyrone, particularly at the battle of Kingsale, where he was knighted on the field, 24 Dec. 1601, whence he was surnamed of Kingsak was Col. of a regt. of Foot [I.]; Gov. (^) He also had the following concubines, with all of whom he may have gone through a form of marriage. They were all living about 1580. (i) Honora, da. of Mac I Brien Ara. (2) Sawny Oge (Burke), a gentlewoman of Clanrickard. (3) Julian Brown, a merchant's wife of Galway, whom he married and put away. The account of the Earl's matrimonial adventures, which recall those of the poultry yard, is that given by himself (5/a/^ Papers [I.], p. 213), and in "A note of the Earl of Clanrickard's wives and concubines now living" [Ibid). These documents are undated, but the Earl's statement was written when his 2nd wife was alive, by wliom " he had gotten thre sons, and by God's grace do entend to get anor." The "Note" was written probably about 1580. Both are calendared with other papers relating to the Earl under the year 1559. Although these are of such great genealogical importance, and gave rise to political complications, the Editor of the Calendar did not think it worth while to print any of the particulars. G. D. Burtchaell, Athlone Pursuivant, writes in 1907, "The Irish chieftains seem to have repudiated and married wives just as they pleased. Illegitimacy was no bar to election to the chieftainship, and no doubt that is the reason that the Irish genealogies omit the names of wives. The first three Earls of Clanrickarde seem to have lived after the manner of their forefathers. They surrendered the lands of their clan, wiiich were not their property, and having accepted a grant of them from the Crown, with rem. to the heirs male of their body lawfully begotten, these lands and titles had to descend according to English law." V.G. C') He is wrongly said in Lodge, vol. i, p. 130, to have m. "25 Nov. 1564 [his parents having been stated to have tn. 24 Nov. 1553], Margaret, da. of Richard Fitz- Allan, Earl of Arundel." No Earl of Arundel, named Richard, existed after 1397, and no such match is recorded in any of the pedigrees of FitzAlan. if) By Martha Frannas he had a son (presumably illegit.), John Bourke, cr. in 1629 Viscount Bourke of Clanmories. V.G. (<^) His elder br., Richard, d. an infant. V.G.