Paternal Family Tree: Burke
In 1572 Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans was born to Ulrick Burke 3rd Earl Clanricarde.
In 1582 [his grandfather] Richard Burke 2nd Earl Clanricarde died. His son [his father] Ulrick succeeded 3rd Earl Clanricarde.
In 1583 Philip Sidney [aged 28] and [his future wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 16] were married. They were half sixth cousins.
In 1590 Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex [aged 24] and [his future wife] 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 1601 [his father] Ulrick Burke 3rd Earl Clanricarde died. His son Richard [aged 29] succeeded 4th Earl Clanricarde.
In 1602 Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 30] was knighted.
In 1603 [his step-son] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 11] and Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 12] were married. They were separated after the wedding given their young age. Essex went on a European tour from 1607 to 1609. When he returned she avoided him having fallen for Robert Carr 1st Earl Somerset [aged 16] whilst her husband was away. He was ill with smallpox. She sought an annulment with her father Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and uncle Henry Howard 1st Earl of Northampton [aged 62] acting for her. She maintained the marriage had not been consummated and was examined by ten matrons and two midwives who found her hymen intact. It was widely rumoured at the time that Sir Thomas Monson's [aged 38] daughter was a substitute, which is possible because she had requested to be veiled during the examination "for modesty's sake". He maintained he was capable with other women, but was unable to consummate his marriage blaming her. She the daughter of Thomas Howard 1st Earl Suffolk [aged 41] and Catherine Knyvet Countess Suffolk [aged 39]. He the son of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 36]. They were fourth cousins.
In 1603 Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 31] and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 36] were married. He the son of Ulrick Burke 3rd Earl Clanricarde.
In 1604 [his son] Ulick Burke 1st Marquess Clanricarde was born to Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 32] and [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 37]. He married 1622 Anne Compton Lady Rushout, daughter of William Compton 1st Earl of Northampton and Elizabeth Spencer Countess Northampton, and had issue.
In 1604 [his step-son] 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. Frances Howard Countess Essex and Somerset [aged 13] by marriage Countess Essex.
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Around 1605 [his daughter] Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester was born to Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 33] and [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 38]. She married 4th October 1633 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester, son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester, and had issue.
In 1612 [his step-daughter] Elizabeth Sidney Countess Rutland [aged 27] died. She was buried at St Mary the Virgin Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire [Map].
On 25th September 1613 [his step-son] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 22] and 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 William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 29] and [his step-daughter] 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 wife] 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].
On 27th April 1622 George Shirley 1st Baronet [aged 63] died. He was buried at the Church of St Mary and St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill [Map]. His son Henry [aged 34] succeeded 2nd Baronet Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire. [his step-daughter] Dorothy Devereux Lady Shirley [aged 22] by marriage Lady Shirley of Staunton Harold in Leicestershire.
Before 9th September 1623 Henry Shirley 2nd Baronet [aged 35] and [his step-daughter] Dorothy Devereux Lady Shirley [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 56]. They were fourth cousin once removed.
In 1628 Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 56] was created 1st Earl St Albans.
On 11th March 1630 [his step-son] Robert Devereux 3rd Earl Essex [aged 39] and Elizabeth Paulet Countess Essex were married. She by marriage Countess Essex. He the son of Robert Devereux 2nd Earl Essex and [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 63]. They were fourth cousins.
On 17th February 1633 [his wife] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex [aged 66] died.
On 4th October 1633 [his son-in-law] John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 35] and Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Winchester. She the daughter of Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 61] and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester.
On 12th November 1635 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].
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[his daughter] Mary Burke was born to Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. She married Edward Butler, son of James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory and Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory, and had issue.
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ulick Fionn Burke 6th Lord Clanricarde
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Mór Burke 9th Lord Clanricarde
Great x 1 Grandfather: Ulick na "gCeann aka of the Heads" Burke 1st Earl Clanricarde
Grandfather: Richard Burke 2nd Earl Clanricarde