Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 1st Baron Upper Ossory

Barnaby Fitzpatrick (born Irish: Brían Óg Mac Giolla Phádraig) (c. 1485-1575^[1]) was, by patent dated 11 June 1541, created the first Lord Baron Upper Ossory by King Henry VIII of England as part of the King's policy of Surrender and regrant.^[2] Barnaby Fitzpatrick was subsequently knighted on 1 July 1543.

Biography

Brían Óg, finding his brother an embarrassment and a hindrance to his ambitions of becoming an English Baron, gave up his brother to the Butlers and the Butlers acted out their cruel revenge on him. That being done, Brían, in 1537, submitted to the English king and gave up all his ancient rights. Unfortunately for his kinsmen, he gave up all the rights of his kinsmen as well "who of course were not consulted as to this act of treachery towards them." ^[3] So in 1541, Brían Óg became Brian ( Barnaby ) Fitz-Patrick, the First Baron of Upper Ossory at Castletown, and married Margaret Butler, daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, the Lord Deputy of Ireland. In this year, with Brian's submission, "chieftaincy merged into the landlord, and the clansman became mere rent-payers or tenants on their ancestral territories forever".

He was afterwards imprisoned at Waterford until he restored "some preys he had seized in Leix".^[4]

Family

About 1530, he married Margaret Butler, widow of Richard Mór Burke and widow of Thomas FitzGerald (of Desmond), first daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond. They had children:^[5]

• Barnaby (c. 1533-1581), his successor and second Baron, was invited to study in London with the boy-king Edward VI.^[6]
• Florence, who succeeded to Upper Ossory on the death of his brother.^[7]
• Grainne who was married to her first cousin, Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret.

In 2002, researchers Ronan Fitzpatrick and Steve Zalewski published a book containing a list of all known descendants of Barnaby Fitz-Patrick, 1st Baron Upper Ossory; revised edition published in 2013.^[8][9]

Notes

References

• Cokayne, George Edward (1898). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. London: George Bell & Sons. 
• Carrigan, William (1905). The History and Antiquities of the Diocese of Ossory 1. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker. 
•  Dunlop, Robert (1889). "Fitzpatrick, Barnaby". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 19. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 190–191. 
• Fitzpatrick, Ronan (24 July 2007). "Fitzpatrick Arms, Crests, Mottos and Supporters" (PDF). Fitzpatrick Clan Society (fitzsoc.com). Retrieved 13 November 2010. 

External Links

• The Fitzpatrick - Mac Giolla Phádraig Clan Society
• Descendants of Bryan Fitzpatrick, Lord and First Baron of Upper Ossory by Ronan Fitzpatrick and Steve Zalewski