Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

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Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (born 1604 in London; died July 1657 in Kent), was an Irish nobleman and figure in English Civil War.

He was the son of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde. Ulick was summoned to the House of Lords as Lord Burgh in 1628, and succeeded his father as 5th earl in 1635. He sat in the Short Parliament of 1640 and attended Charles I in the Scottish expedition.

During the Irish Confederate Wars, he supported the Royalist James Butler in defending Ireland for Charles I against the Parliamentarians by uniting Catholic and Protestant nobles (himself being catholic). He did not join the Catholic Confederate Ireland, but instead helped to broker a military alliance between the Confederates and English Royalists. He commanded the forces of this alliance during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, after Ormonde fled the country, and helped to win a minor victory at the battle of Tecroghan. He was however unable to halt the Parliamentarian conquest of the country.

In 1652, he made peace with the victorious Oliver Cromwell. He lost his lands in the Act of Settlement 1652 but regained them after the Restoration of the monarchy in the Act of Settlement 1662.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by New creation	Marquess of Clanricarde 1646-1657	Succeeded by Extinct
Preceded by Richard Burke	Earl of Clanricarde 1635-1657	Succeeded by Richard Burke
Peerage of England
Preceded by Richard Burke	Earl of St. Albans 1635-1657	Succeeded by Extinct