William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell
The Lord Bourke of Castleconnell | |
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Uilleag de Búrca | |
| Lord Lieutenant of Limerick | |
| In office 1689–1692 | |
| Monarch | James II |
| Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick | |
| In office 1689–1692 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Bourke Ireland |
| Died | c.1691 France |
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| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1689–1692 |
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| Battles/wars | Battle of Aughrim (1691) |
William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell (died c.1691) was an Irish Jacobite peer.
Background[edit]
Bourke was the son of Thomas Bourke, 7th Baron Bourke of Connell and Margaret Hore. He inherited his father's peerage in 1680. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Limerick and Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick by James II of England.[1] During the Williamite War in Ireland, he was summoned to the Irish House of Lords in the brief Patriot Parliament called by James in 1689 and received a commission as a Captain in the Earl of Tyrone's Regiment of Foot.[2][3] He later became a Lieutenant colonel in Sutherland's Regiment of Horse and fought at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.
Exile[edit]
Following the Jacobite defeat, Bourke followed James into exile in France and was attainted of his title and estates by the English government.[4] He died in France in obscurity.
Arms[edit]
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See also[edit]
- House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193
References[edit]
Citations[edit]
- ^ Barry, James Grene (1889). "The Bourkes of Clanwilliam". The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 9 (80): 192–203. ISSN 0790-6382.
- ^ O'Hart, John (1892). The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. 2 (5th ed.). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ "University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Critical Studies - Research - Research Centres and Networks - Centre for Robert Burns Studies - Our research - Jacobite Officers Database - THE DATABASE - B". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ "Bourke, William | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
Bibliography[edit]
- Barry, James Grene (1889). "The Bourkes of Clanwilliam". The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 9 (80): 192–203. ISSN 0790-6382.
- Burke, Bernard (1883). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Burke's Peerage.
- Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. London: Harrison & Sons.
- O'Hart, John (1892). The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. 2 (5th ed.). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
- "Bourke, William | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 2024-05-07.
