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Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan
Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c. 1655 – August 1693) was an Irish army officer. Fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693 while serving in the French Royal Army, he died of his injuries several weeks later, and is now best remembered as an Irish patriot and military hero.
Born into a wealthy Catholic family, Sarsfield began his military career during the 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War. After fellow Catholic James II of England was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in November 1688, Sarsfield served as a senior commander in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, and was elected to the 1689 Patriot Parliament.
Fighting in Ireland ended with the 1691 Treaty of Limerick. Under the agreement, thousands of Irish soldiers went into exile in France, and many served in Flanders during the Nine Years' War, including Sarsfield.
The Sarsfield family was descended from Sir William Sarsfield, an English merchant who settled in Dublin. Knighted in 1566, reportedly for providing Elizabeth I financial support during Shane O'Neill's rebellion, he later purchased Lucan Manor, a large estate to the west of Dublin, and Tully Commandery in County Kildare.
The family had converted to Catholicism by the time his great grandson Patrick was born in 1655, younger son of Patrick Sarsfield (c. 1628 – after 1693) and Anne O'Moore, daughter of Rory O'Moore, who played a leading part in the 1641 rebellion. During the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, the older Sarsfield sided with Confederate Ireland, but belonged to the moderate faction that sought an agreement with Protestant Irish Royalists.
Although his estates were confiscated in 1652, they were returned in 1662. His eldest son William married Mary Crofts, reputedly an illegitimate daughter of Charles II and younger sister of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth.
In 1689, Sarsfield married the 15-year-old Honora Burke (1674–1698), daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde; they had one son, James Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1693–1719). After Sarsfield's death, she married James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, eldest but illegitimate son of James II of England.
Catalina Sarsfield, who called herself Queen of the brief-lived Kingdom of Corsica, is often cited as Sarsfield's daughter, but was in fact a distant cousin. Her father David Sarsfield came from another branch of the family, and was killed at the Battle of Villaviciosa in 1710.
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Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan
Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c. 1655 – August 1693) was an Irish army officer. Fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693 while serving in the French Royal Army, he died of his injuries several weeks later, and is now best remembered as an Irish patriot and military hero.
Born into a wealthy Catholic family, Sarsfield began his military career during the 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War. After fellow Catholic James II of England was deposed by the Glorious Revolution in November 1688, Sarsfield served as a senior commander in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland, and was elected to the 1689 Patriot Parliament.
Fighting in Ireland ended with the 1691 Treaty of Limerick. Under the agreement, thousands of Irish soldiers went into exile in France, and many served in Flanders during the Nine Years' War, including Sarsfield.
The Sarsfield family was descended from Sir William Sarsfield, an English merchant who settled in Dublin. Knighted in 1566, reportedly for providing Elizabeth I financial support during Shane O'Neill's rebellion, he later purchased Lucan Manor, a large estate to the west of Dublin, and Tully Commandery in County Kildare.
The family had converted to Catholicism by the time his great grandson Patrick was born in 1655, younger son of Patrick Sarsfield (c. 1628 – after 1693) and Anne O'Moore, daughter of Rory O'Moore, who played a leading part in the 1641 rebellion. During the 1641 to 1652 Irish Confederate Wars, the older Sarsfield sided with Confederate Ireland, but belonged to the moderate faction that sought an agreement with Protestant Irish Royalists.
Although his estates were confiscated in 1652, they were returned in 1662. His eldest son William married Mary Crofts, reputedly an illegitimate daughter of Charles II and younger sister of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth.
In 1689, Sarsfield married the 15-year-old Honora Burke (1674–1698), daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde; they had one son, James Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1693–1719). After Sarsfield's death, she married James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, eldest but illegitimate son of James II of England.
Catalina Sarsfield, who called herself Queen of the brief-lived Kingdom of Corsica, is often cited as Sarsfield's daughter, but was in fact a distant cousin. Her father David Sarsfield came from another branch of the family, and was killed at the Battle of Villaviciosa in 1710.