Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde 1604-1657

In 1583 Philip Sidney [aged 28] and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 16] were married. They were half sixth cousins.

In 1590 Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex [aged 24] and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 23] were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. He the son of Walter Devereux 1st Earl Essex and Lettice Knollys Countess Essex and Leicester [aged 46]. They were half fourth cousin once removed.

In 1603 [his father] Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 31] and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 36] were married. He the son of [his grandfather] Ulrick Burke 3rd Earl Clanricarde.

In 1604 Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde was born to Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 32] and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 37].

In 1604 [his half-brother] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 12] was restored 3rd Earl Essex, 4th Viscount Hereford, 13th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, 10th Baron Bourchier although it isn't clear whether the latter three titles were forfeit when his father was executed in 1601. [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 13] by marriage Countess Essex.

Before 10th August 1612 [his half-sister] Elizabeth Sidney Countess Rutland [aged 27] died around six weeks after her husband [his former brother-in-law] Roger Manners 5th Earl of Rutland. She was buried at St Paul's Cathedral [Map] next to her father Philip Sidney. In a letter from Mr. Chamberlain to Sir Ralph Winwood of 10th August he suggests she may have been poisoned: "The Widow Countefs of Rutland dyed lately, and is privately buryed in Paul's, by [i.e. next to] her Father Sir Phillip Sidney and Secretary Walflngham Sir Walter Raleigh is slandered to have given her certaine Pills that difpatchd her. The [her uncle] Vifcount Lisle [aged 48] is gone for Flufhing a thoufand Pound the Year richer by her Death."

On 25th September 1613 [his half-brother] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 22] and [his sister-in-law] Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 23] marriage annulled by King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 47]. She married Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset [aged 26] three months later.

On 3rd March 1617 [his brother-in-law] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 29] and [his half-sister] Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset [aged 17] were married at Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire [Map]. She the daughter of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 50]. They were fourth cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

In 1622 Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde [aged 18] and Anne Compton Lady Rushout were married. She the daughter of William Compton 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth Spencer Countess Northampton [aged 46]. He the son of Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 50] and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 55].

Before 19th August 1622 [his brother-in-law] Spencer Compton 2nd Earl of Northampton [aged 21] and Mary Beaumont Countess of Northampton [aged 18] were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] William Compton 1st Earl of Northampton and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Spencer Countess Northampton [aged 47].

On 11th March 1630 [his half-brother] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 39] and [his sister-in-law] Elizabeth Paulet Countess Essex were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. He the son of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 63]. They were fourth cousins.

On 24th June 1630 [his father-in-law] William Compton 1st Earl of Northampton died. His son [his brother-in-law] Spencer [aged 29] succeeded 2nd Earl of Northampton, 3rd Baron Compton of Compton in Warwickshire. Mary Beaumont Countess of Northampton [aged 26] by marriage Countess of Northampton.

On 17th February 1633 [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 66] died.

On 12th November 1635 [his father] Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 63] died. His son Ulick [aged 31] succeeded 5th Earl Clanricarde, 2nd Earl St Albans. Thomas Wentworth 1st Earl Strafford [aged 42] was blamed for his death making an enemy of Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde and his half-brother (they shared the same mother Frances Walsingham Countess Essex) Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 44].

On 14th September 1646 [his half-brother] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 55] died. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. Earl Essex extinct. His half first cousin twice removed Walter [aged 71] succeeded 5th Viscount Hereford. Baron Ferrers of Chartley, Baron Bourchier abeyant.

John Evelyn's Diary. 29th June 1652. We went to see the house of my Lord Clanrickarde [aged 48] at Summer hill, near Tunbridge (now given to that villain, Bradshawe [aged 49], who condemned the King [aged 22]). 'Tis situated on an eminent hill, with a park; but has nothing else extraordinary.

In July 1657 Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde [aged 53] died. His first cousin Richard succeeded 6th Earl Clanricarde. Earl St Albans extinct.

In 1675 [his former wife] Anne Compton Lady Rushout died.

[his daughter] Margaret Burke Lady Muskerry was born to Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde and Anne Compton Lady Rushout. She married 1. her first cousin three times removed Charles Maccarthy Viscount Muskerry, son of Donough MacCarty 1st Earl Clancarty and Ellen Butler Countess Clancarty, and had issue 2. 1676 Robert Villiers 3. before 14th August 1698 Robert "Beau Handsome" Fielding.