Sir Hugh O'Donnell

Sir Hugh O'Donnell Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill
King of Tyrconnell
Reign	1566-1592
Predecessor	Calvagh O'Donnell
Heir	Hugh Roe O'Donnell
Born	c. 1540 Tyrconnell, Ireland
Died	c. 1600 (aged 59-60) Donegal, Tyrconnell, Ireland
Spouse	Ineen Dubh
Issue	Numerous
House	Uí Dhomhnaill
Father	Manus O'Donnell
Mother	Judith O'Neill

Sir Hugh O'Donnell (Irish: Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill) (died c. 1600),^[1] was an Irish Gaelic lord. He was The O'Donnell of his clan, and king of Tyrconnell in medieval Ireland.

Biography

O'Donnell's second marriage was to Iníon Dubh.^[1]^[2] In the 1580s a violent succession dispute broke out amongst the O'Donnells over who would succeed him. He abdicated in favour of his eldest son by his second wife, Hugh Roe O'Donnell,^[1] in 1592. He lived in retirement until his death 1600, by which time Tyrone's Rebellion was in full flight.

Family

From his first marriage, their children were:

Donnchadh (Duncan) "Scaite"^[3]
Sir Donnell (d. 1590)
Ruaidhri (Rory) (d. 1575)
Siobhán (Joan), (d. January 1591), married Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone in 1574.^[1]
unknown daughter, married a son of Turlough Luineach O'Neill.

His second marriage was to Fionnghuala (Fiona) MacDonald, known by the Irish nickname Iníon Dubh,^[1]^[2] daughter of James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg and Agnes Campbell,^[1] their children were:

Nuala, married Niall Garve O'Donnell
Hugh Roe^[1] (c. 1572 – 10 September 1602)
Rory (c. 1575 – 1 August 1608),^[1] later Earl of Tyrconnell, married Brigid FitzGerald
Maghnus
Mairghead (Margaret)
Máire (Mary) (d. 1662), married firstly Sir Donnell Ó Cathain and later Tadhg O'Rourke.
Cathbarr (d. 1608)
Gráinne^[4]

Family tree

O'Donnell family tree

Sir Hugh O'Donnell (Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill; died 1600)^{[lower-roman 1]}
- Married first: an unnamed Irish woman
  - Donnchadh (Scaite)
  - Donnell (Domhnall d.1590
    - Wife: daughter of Turlough O'Neill
      - Dómhnall Óg^{[lower-roman 2]}
  - Ruadhri (died 1575)
  - Siobhán, or Joan (died 1591)^{[lower-roman 1]}
    - Married: Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone.^{[lower-roman 3]}
      - Hugh (1585–1609)^{[lower-roman 3]} He was known as the baron of Dungannon, died in Rome and was buried in San Pietro di Montorio.^{[lower-roman 4]}
      - Henry O'Neill (1586?–1617×21)^{[lower-roman 3]} He became a colonel of an Irish regiment in Archduke Albert's army.^{[lower-roman 4]}
      - Margaret, who married Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret.^{[lower-roman 4]}
  - daughter (fl. 1579)
  - Nuala (fl. 1592)^{[lower-roman 1]}
    - Married Niall Garbh O'Donnel(1569–1626)
      - Grania
- Second marriage: Fionnghuala "Inghean Dubh" Ní Seamus MacDonnell (married Aodh in 1569)
  - Aodh Ruadh (1571–1602).^{[lower-roman 1]}
  - Rudhraighe (died 1608).^{[lower-roman 1]}
    - - Elizabeth^{[lower-roman 5]}
        Husband: Luke Plunket later 1st Earl of Fingall survived Elizabeth and married twice more.
    - Wife: Brigid daughter of Earl of Kildare
      - Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell.^{[lower-roman 5]}^{[lower-roman 2]}
        Married: Anna-Margaret, daughter of Maximilian de Hennin, Count de Bossut.^{[lower-roman 6]}
      - Mary Stuart O'Donnell (1607–1639?).^{[lower-roman 5]}
  - Maghnus alive 1608
  - Mairghead died 1662
  - Máire (died 1662)
    - Married: Tadhg Ó Ruairc, King of West Breifne (died 1605)
  - Cathbarr (dead by September 1608)
    - Wife: Rosa (c.1588–1660) the daughter of Sir John O'Doherty — married secondly Owen Roe O'Neill (c. 1585–1649) who she met in the Low Countries
      - Hugh O'Donnell (died 1625), became a captain in the Spanish Army, serving in Flanders in the regiment of his stepfather (Owen Roe O'Neill). He was killed during the Siege of Breda.^{[lower-roman 7]}

Notes:

1 2 3 4 5 Burke 1866, p. 409.
1 2 If the Earldom of Tyrconnell had not been attained, then next in line as 3rd Earl of Tyrconnell would have been Dómhnall Óg son of Sir Donnell O'Donnell (an elder half brother of the 1st Earl)
1 2 3 Canny 2008
1 2 3 Dunlop 1895, p. 196
1 2 3 "Hugh Albert O'Donnell, born [to Rory and Brigid] about October 1606, was the only son of this marriage, Mary Stuart O'Donnell being born about a year later. Some authorities give an eldest child, Elizabeth, probably illegitimate, who became first wife of Luke Plunkett, first earl of Fingall" (Silke 2006).
↑ Burke 1866, p. 410.
↑ Casway 1984, pp. 27–28.

Sources:

Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, pp. 409–410
Canny, Nicholas (January 2008) [2004], "O'Neill, Hugh , second earl of Tyrone (c.1550–1616)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.), Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20775 (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
Casway, Jerrold (1984), Owen Roe O'Neill and the Struggle for Catholic Ireland, University of Pennsylvania Press
Dunlop, Robert (1895), "O'Neill, Hugh (1540?-1616)", Dictionary of National Biography, 42, pp. 188–196
Silke, John J. (May 2006) [2004]. "O'Donnell, Rury , styled first earl of Tyrconnell (1574/5–1608)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20559. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Burke 1866, p. 409.
1 2 An Phoblacht 2007.
↑ The historicity of this person is disputed; Ó Domhnaill, Niall; Na Glúnta Rosannacha (1952), page 87
↑ O'Donnell, Eunan; Reflection on the Flight of the Earls; Donegal Annual, Bliainiris Dhún na nGall, Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society, No. 58 (2006); pp. 31-44. Gráinne is merely described as a sister of the Earl (i.e., Rory) with no further information.

References

Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, pp. 409–410
Iníon Dubh - Forgotten heroine, An Phoblacht, 20 December 2007, archived from the original on 20 October 2010, retrieved 25 November 2010

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