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].

On 22nd June 1610 [his future brother-in-law] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 22] and Arabella Stewart [aged 35] were married in secret at Palace of Placentia, Greenwich [Map]. For having married without permission King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 44] had Arabella Stewart imprisoned in Sir Thomas Perry's House, Lambeth and he in the Tower of London [Map]. She the daughter of Charles Stewart 5th Earl Lennox and Elizabeth Cavendish Countess Lennox. They were third cousin once removed. He a great x 3 grandson of King Henry VII of England and Ireland. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

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 18th December 1622 [his future brother-in-law] John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 24] and Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester were married. She the daughter of Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage [aged 36] and Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 41]. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester [aged 63] and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester. They were fourth cousins.

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

On 4th October 1633 [his brother-in-law] John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 35] and [his sister] Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Winchester. She the daughter of [his father] Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 61] and [his mother] Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester.

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].

Around 1637 Richard Molyneux 2nd Viscount Molyneux [aged 18] and [his niece] Frances Seymour Countess Southampton [aged 19] were married. She by marriage Viscountess Molyneux. She the daughter of [his brother-in-law] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 49] and [his half-sister] Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset [aged 37].

Around 1647 Thomas Higgons [aged 23] and [his former sister-in-law] Elizabeth Paulet Countess Essex were married.

Around 1650 Heneage Finch 3rd Earl Winchilsea [aged 22] and [his niece] Mary Seymour Countess Winchelsea [aged 13] were married. She by marriage Countess Winchilsea. She the daughter of [his brother-in-law] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 62] and [his half-sister] Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset [aged 50]. He the son of Thomas Finch 2nd Earl Winchilsea and Cecily Wentworth Countess Winchelsea. They were third cousins. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.

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 1656 [his nephew] John Seymour 4th Duke of Somerset [aged 11] and Sarah Alston Duchess Somerset [aged 14] were married. He the son of [his brother-in-law] William Seymour 2nd Duke of Somerset [aged 68] and [his half-sister] Frances Devereux Duchess of Somerset [aged 56].

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.