Patrick
Sarsfield
Born about in Lucan, County Dublin, Ireland
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Patrick Sarsfield
and Anne (O More) Sarsfield
Brother of
William Sarsfield
Husband of
Honora (Burke) FitzJames
— married
9 Jan 1689 [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died in Huy, Liège, Belgium
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Biography
Patrick Sarsfield, a prominent Jacobite military leader and the 1st Earl of Lucan, was born about 1660 in Ireland. He passed away in 1693 while fighting in France.
Sarsfield gained his first military experience serving with an Anglo-Irish contingent of the French Army during the 1670s. When James II came to the throne he was commissioned in the English Army, and served during the suppression of Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 he remained loyal to James and led an English cavalry detachment at the Battle of Wincanton, the only military engagement of the campaign.
In 1689 Sarsfield accompanied James to Ireland and served in the Jacobite Irish Army. After an early setback at Sligo, he became one of the celebrated Jacobite leaders of the war, noted in particular for Sarsfield's Raid shortly before the Siege of Limerick in 1690. James rewarded him by making him an Earl in the Peerage of Ireland. After the war's end following a second siege of Limerick in 1691, he led the Flight of the Wild Geese which took thousands of Irish soldiers into exile in France where they continued to serve James. After a planned invasion of England had to be abandoned following a French naval defeat in 1692, Lord Lucan (as he then was) served in Flanders and was killed at the Battle of Landen in 1693.
Sarsfield married Lady Honora Burke (or de Burgh), daughter of The 9th Earl of Clanricarde, on 9 January 1689 in Portumna Abbey; by whom he had one son, James Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan, who died childless in 1718.
""Patrick Sarsfield Esq who estates were sequestered by Cromwell but who recovered them at the Restoration, bu the intervention of the queen-mother. He had issue WILLIAM, PATRICK, Anne m to Edward Cheevers, Viscount Mount Leinster, and Mary, m Thomas Rositer, The great-great-great-great-grandson on this marriage is the present Sir William Sarsfield Rossiter Cockburn bart"[1]
Sources
- ↑ Burke's "A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant and in Abeyance" 1846 p 694
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