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See also:SIR PHELIM O'See also:NEILL (c. 1603-1653), a kinsman and younger contemporary of the See also:earl of See also:Tyrone, took a prominent See also:part in the See also:rebellion of 1641. In that See also:year he was elected member of the Irish See also:parliament for See also:Dungannon, and joined the earl of See also:Antrim and other lords in concerting See also:measures for supporting See also:Charles I. in his struggle with the parliament. On the 22nd of See also:October 1641 he surprised and captured See also:Charlemont See also:Castle; and having been chosen See also:commander-in-See also:chief of the Irish forces in the See also:north, he forged and issued a pretended See also:commission from Charles I. sanctioning his proceedings. Phelim and his followers committed much depredation in See also:Ulster on the pretext of reducing the Scots; and he attempted without success to take See also:Drogheda, being compelled by See also:Ormonde to raise the See also:siege in See also:April 1642. He was responsible for many of the barbarities committed by the Catholics during the rebellion.' During the summer his fortunes ebbed, and he was soon superseded by his kinsman See also:Owen See also:Roe O'Neill, who returned from military service abroad at the end of See also:July.
OwEN ROE O'NEILL (c. 1590-1649), one of the most celebrated of the O'Neills, the subject of the well-known ballad " The Lament for Owen Roe," was the son of See also:Art O'Neill, a younger See also:brother of See also:Hugh, and earl of Tyrone. Having served with distinction for many years in the See also:Spanish See also:army, he was immediately recognized on his return to See also:Ireland as the leading representative of the O'Neills. Phelim resigned the See also:northern command in his favour, and escorted him from Lough Swilly to Charlemont. But See also:jealousy between the kinsmen was complicated by See also:differences between Owen Roe and the See also:Catholic See also:council which met at See also:Kilkenny in October 1642. Owen Roe professed to be acting in the See also:interest of Charles I.; but his real aim was the See also:complete See also:independence of Ireland, while the Anglo-See also:Norman Catholics represented by the council desired to secure religious See also:liberty and an Irish constitution under the See also:crown of See also:England. Although Owen Roe O'Neill possessed the qualities of a See also:general, the struggle dragged on inconclusively for three or four years. In See also:March 1646 a cessation of hostilities was arranged between Ormonde and the Catholics; and O'Neill, furnished with supplies by the papal See also:nuncio, See also:Rinuccini, turned against the Scottish See also:parliamentary army under General See also:Monro, who had been operating with fluctuating success in Ireland since April 1642. On the 5th of See also:June 1646 O'Neill utterly routed Monro at Benburb, on the See also:Blackwater; but, being summoned to the See also:south by Rinuccini, he failed to take See also:advantage of the victory, and suffered Monro to remain unmolested at See also:Carrickfergus. For the next two years confusion reigned supreme among the numerous factions in Ireland, O'Neill supporting the party led by Rinuccini, though continuing to profess See also:loyalty to Ormonde as the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of England's representative. Isolated by the departure of the papal nuncio from Ireland in See also:February 1649, he made overtures for See also:alliance to Ormonde, and afterwards with success to Monck, who had superseded Monro in command of the parliamentarians in the north. O'Neill's chief need was supplies for his forces, and failing to obtain them from Monck he turned once more to Ormonde and the Catholic confederates, with whom he prepared to co-operate more earnestly when See also:Cromwell's arrival in Ireland in See also:August 1649 brought the Catholic party See also:face to face with serious danger. Before, however, anything was accomplished by this See also:combination, Owen Roe died on the 6th of See also:November 1649.
The alliance between Owen Roe and Ormonde had been opposed by Phelim O'Neill, who after his kinsman's See also:death expected to be restored to his former position of command. In this he was disappointed; but he continued to fight against the parliamentarians till August 1652, when a See also:reward was offered for his See also:apprehension. Betrayed by a kinsman while hiding in Tyrone, he was tried for high See also:treason in See also:Dublin, and executed on the loth of March 1653. Phelim married a daughter of the See also:marquis of See also:Huntly, by whom he had a son See also:Gordon O'Neill, who was member of parliament for Tyrone in 1689; fought for the king at the siege of Derry and at the battles of See also:Aughrim and the
' See W. E. H. See also:Lecky, Hist. of Ireland in the Eighteenth See also:Century, i. 66-68 (See also:Cabinet edition, 5 vols,, See also:London, 1892).
See also:Boyne; and afterwards commanded an Irish See also:regiment in the See also:French service, and died in 1704.
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