Richard Bacach Burke

Richard Bacach Burke, 11th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar (English: /klænˈrɪkɑːrd/; klan-RIK-ard; died 1538) was an Irish chieftain and noble who was the ancestor of the Burkes of County Galway.

Richard Bacach Burke
11th Clanricarde
Arms of de Burgh/Burke of Clanricarde.[1]
Native nameRicard Bacach de Búrca
BornGalway, Ireland
Died1538
Noble familyde Burgh
FatherUlick Fionn Burke

Background

Burke was a son of Ulick Fionn Burke, 6th Clanricarde (d.1509). He succeeded his cousin's son, John mac Richard Mór Burke, 10th Clanricarde, as chieftain in 1538. Richard was deposed in 1538 by his nephew, Ulick na gCeann Burke, 12th Clanricarde (d.1544).

All subsequent chiefs of the Galway Burkes and Earls of Clanricarde would descend from Ulick while Richard Bachach's descendants disappeared into obscurity.








Family tree

 
  Ulick Ruadh Burke, d. 1485
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   Edmund, d. 1486.       Ulick Fionn          Meiler, Abbot of Tuam      John, d. 1508.   Ricard Og, d. 1519.
   |                      |                                                                   |
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   Ricard, d. c. 1517.    |                          |              |            |            |                |
   |                      |                          |              |            |            |                |
   |                      Ulick Óge, d. 1519.    Richard Mór   Redmond   Richard Bacach    Ulick, d. 1551.  Thomas
   John, fl. 1536.                                   |                           |            |                |
                                                     |                           |            |                |
                                                Ulick na gCeann         Roland, Bp. Clonfert. Thomas Balbh  John of Derrymaclaghtna
                                                     |                         died 1580                       |
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                          |                    |     |               |             |                       Ricard, d. 1593.
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                         Richard Sassanach   John  Thomas Feranta  Edmond   Redmond na Scuab         (Burke of Derrymaclaghtna)
                          | d. 1582.                 d. 1546.                  d. 1596.
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                      Earls of Clanricarde
Clanricarde (Mac William Uachtar) Genealogy

References
  1. Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London : Harrison & sons.

Further reading
  • Burke, Eamon "Burke People and Places", Dublin, 1995.
  • A New History of Ireland, IX, p.172, Oxford, 1984.
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