Talk:Count of Tyrone

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Could we have some more information on the fate of the title after the death of the 8th Count? A title is not something that can be "left in the care" of a person: it's inherited, or dormant when the heir is not known. It also seems very strange that the King of Spain would resign his rights to act as a fons honorum because he went into exile. Furthermore, this page claims that the last Count, presumably the 8th, "settled the style by a family pact on Dom Jorge, The O'Neill Buidhe (Clannaboy) in 1901". We really need a source for the claim of Jacques. Choess 02:34, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed on "care of", it was dormant. The other O'Neill family laid claim to the title and it apparently took 50 years (I'm told due to the wars of 1914 to 1945) to have the male heir restored. I'm using the Vatican text of the restoration of the grant as the basis for the modern history. The earlier history I'm primarily using a book titled "O'Neill, the Ancient and Royal Family" by Desmond O'Neill. There is long been a desire to attach the title Tyrone to the O'Neill of Clannaboy family. While they are certainly the leaders of their area, and entitled to use "Count" there is zero historical reason to give Tyrone to this family. The present O'Neill Clannaboy refuses the "Tyrone" title and rightly uses Prince of Clanaboy. That site is correct to show a link between the Johnson Baronets of New York and this family, although it is distant. Princeton 03, February 3, 2007.