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CLANRICARDE, ULICK DE See also:BURGH (See also:BOURKE or See also:BURKE) , 1st See also:EARL of (d. 1544), styled MacWilliam, and Ne-gan or NagCeann (i.e. " of the Heads," " having made a See also:mount of the heads of men slain in See also:battle which he covered up with See also:earth "), was the son of See also:Richard or Rickard de Burgh, See also:lord of Clanricarde, by a daughter of See also:Madden of Portumna, and See also:grandson of Ulick de Burgh, lord of Clanricarde (1467-1487), the See also:collateral See also:heir male of the earls of See also:Ulster. On the See also:death of the last earl in 1333, his only See also:child See also:Elizabeth had married Lionel, See also:duke of See also:Clarence, and the earldom became merged in the See also:crown, in consequence of which the de Burghs abjured See also:English See also:laws and See also:sovereignty, and See also:chose for their chiefs the sons of See also:Sir See also:William, the " Red " earl of Ulster's See also:brother, the See also:elder William taking the See also:title of MacWilliam Eighter (Uachtar, i.e. Upper), and becoming the ancestor of the earls of Clanricarde, and his brother Sir Edmond that of Mac-William Oughter (Ochtar, i.e. See also:Lower), and See also:founding the See also:family of the earls of See also:Mayo. In 1361 the duke of Clarence was sent over as lord-See also:lieutenant to See also:Ireland to enforce his claims as See also:husband of the heir See also:general, but failed, and the chiefs of the de Burghs maintained their See also:independence of English sovereignty for several generations. Ulick de Burgh succeeded to the headship of his See also:clan, exercised a quasi-royal authority and held vast estates in See also:county See also:Galway, in See also:Connaught, including Loughry, Dunkellin, Kiltartan (Hilltaraght) and See also:Athenry, as well as See also:Clare and See also:Leitrim. In See also:March 1541, however, he wrote to See also:Henry VIII., lamenting the degeneracy of his family, " which have been brought to Irish and disobedient See also:rule by See also:reason of See also:marriage and nurseing with those Irish, sometime rebels, near adjoining to me," and placing himself and his estates in the See also:king's hands. The same See also:year he was See also:present at See also:Dublin, when the See also:act was passed making Henry VIII. king of Ireland. In 1543, in See also:company with other Irish chiefs, he visited the king at See also:Greenwich, made full submission, undertook to introduce English See also:manners and abandon Irish names, received a regrant of the greater See also:part of his estates with the addition of other lands, was confirmed in the captainship and rule of Clanricarde, and was created on the 1st of See also:July 1543 earl of Clanricarde and See also:baron of Dunkellin in the See also:peerage of Ireland, with unusual ceremony. " The making of McWilliam earl of Clanricarde made all the See also:country during his See also:time quiet and obedient," states Lord See also:Chancellor Cusake in his See also:review of the See also:state of Ireland in 1553.1 He did not live See also:long, however, to enjoy his new English dignities, but died shortly after returning to Ireland about March 1544.

He is called by the annalist of See also:

Loch Ce " a haughty and proud lord," who reduced many under his yoke, and by the Four Masters " the most illustrious of the English in Connaught." Clanricarde married (1) Grany or See also:Grace, daughter of Mulrone O'See also:Carroll, " See also:prince of See also:Ely," by whom he had Richard or Rickard " the Saxon," who succeeded him as 2nd earl of Clanricarde (grandfather of the 4th earl, whose son became See also:marquess of Clanricarde), this See also:alliance being the only one declared valid. After parting with his first wife he married (2) Honora, See also:sister of Ulick de Burgh, from whom he also parted. He married (3) See also:Mary See also:Lynch, by whom he had See also:John, who claimed the earldom in 1568. Other sons, according to Burke's Peerage, were See also:Thomas " the See also:Athlete," shot in 1545, See also:Redmond " of the See also:Broom " (d. 1595), and See also:Edmund (d. 1597). See also See also:Annals of Ireland by the Four Masters (ed. by O. Connellan, 1846), p. 132 See also:note, and reign of Henry VIII.; Annals of Loch Ce (Rerum Brit. Medii Aevi Scriptores) (S4) (1871); Hist. Mem. of the O'Briens, by J. 0.

Donoghue (1860), pp 159, 519; Ireland under the Tudors, by R. Bagwell, vol. i.; State Papers, Ireland, See also:

Carew See also:MSS. and See also:Gairdner's Letters and Papers of Henry VIII.; See also:Cotton MSS. Brit. See also:Mus., See also:Titus B xi. f. 388. (P. C.

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