Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway

Ulick Burke
Viscount Galway
Tenure	1687–1691
Born	c. 1670
Died	12 July 1691
Spouse(s)	Frances Lane
Issue Detail	A daughter probably called Elizabeth
Father	William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde
Mother	Helen MacCarty

Ulick Burke, 1st Viscount Galway (English: /ˈjuːlɪk/ 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. 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 XXX Ulick Burke XXX Earls of Clanricarde

Ulick was born about 1670 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, and therefore belonged to the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a Gaelic Irish family that descended from the kings of Desmond.

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.

Viscount Galway

He was created by letters patent dated 2 June 1687 Baron of Tyaquin and Viscount Galway. 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. His wife's name is given either as Elizabeth or as Frances. Ulick's wife remarried to Henry Fox after his death and died in 1713.

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

James II in Ireland and the Williamite war

Further information: Ballymore, County Westmeath § The Siege of Ballymore

Galway took his seat at the Lords during the Patriot Parliament in 1689. 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.

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

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. Motto UNG ROY, UNG FOY, UNG LOY (One king, one faith, one law)

See also

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193
• Clanricarde

Notes and references

Sources

• Boulger, Demetrius Charles (1911). The Battle of the Boyne. London: Martin Secker. OCLC 1041056932.
• Burke, Jim (2005). A History of De Burgo, De Burgh, De Burca, Burke, Bourke. Ireland: Séamus de Búrka. OCLC 619552006. – Jim Burke!
• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348.
• Burke, Ulick (1757). Smith de Burgo, John (ed.). The Memoirs and Letter of Ulick, Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl of St. Albans. London: R. and J. Dodsley. OCLC 1015530505.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1892). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. IV (1st ed.). London: George Bell and Sons. OCLC 1180828941. – G to K (for Viscount Galway)
• Cokayne, George Edward (1913). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. III (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Canonteign to Cutts (for Clanricarde)
• Hawkins, Richard (October 2009). McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). "Burke, Ulick". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
• O'Hart, John (1892). Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. I (5th ed.). Dublin: James Duffy & Co. OCLC 7239210. – Irish stem
• Wauchope, Piers (2004). "Sarsfield, Patrick, Jacobite first earl of Lucan (d. 1693)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 48. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 993–996. ISBN 0-19-861398-9.

Further reading

• Wauchope, Piers. Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War. Irish Academic Press, 1992.