Richard Bacach Burke Explained

Richard Bacach Burke 11th Clanricarde
Native Name:	Ricard Bacach de Búrca
Native Name Lang:	Irish
Birth Place:	Galway, Ireland
Death Date:	1538
Father:	Ulick Fionn Burke
Noble Family:	House of Burgh

Richard Bacach Burke, 11th Clanricarde or Mac William Uachtar (; died 1538) was an Irish chieftain and noble who was the ancestor of the Burkes of County Galway.

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).^[1]

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

Genealogy

• Richard an Fhorbhair de Burgh (d.1343)
  • Sir William (Ulick) de Burgh (d. 1343/53), 1st Mac William Uachtar (Upper Mac William) or Clanricarde (Galway)
    • Richard Óg Burke (d. 1387), 2nd Clanricarde
      • Ulick an Fhiona Burke (d. 1424), 3rd Clanricarde
        • Ulick Ruadh Burke (d. 1485), 5th Clanricarde
          • Edmund Burke (d. 1466)
            • Ricard of Roscam (d. 1517)
              • John mac Richard Mór Burke (d. 1536), 10th Clanricarde
          • Ulick Fionn Burke (d.1509), 6th Clanricarde
            • Ulick Óge Burke (d. 1520), 8th Clanricarde
            • Richard Mór Burke (d. 1530), 9th Clanricarde
              • Ulick na gCeann Burke (d. 1544), 12th Clanricarde, 1st Earl of Clanricarde (1543)
            • Richard Bacach Burke (d. 1538), 11th Clanricarde
          • Richard Óge Burke (d. 1519), 7th Clanricarde
            • Sir Uilleag Burke (d. 1551), 13th Clanricarde
      • William mac Ulick Burke (d. 1430), 4th Clanricarde
    • Edmund de Burgh (d. 1410)

See also

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

References

Bibliography

• Book: Bourke, Eamonn . Burke: People and Places . Ballinakilla Press and de Búrca Rare Books . Whitegate and Castlebar . 1995 . 0-946130-10-8 . en.
• Book: Burke, Bernard . Bernard Burke . The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time . 1884 . Harrison & Sons . London . en.
• Book: Moody . T. W. . T. W. Moody . Martin . F. X. . F. X. Martin . Byrne . F. J. . Francis John Byrne . A New History of Ireland: IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists, A Companion to Irish History, Part II . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1989 . 978-0-19-959306-4 . en.
  • Burke of Clanricard: Mac William Uachtar (de Burgh), Lords of Upper Connacht and Earls of Clanricard, 1332–1722, p. 172.

Notes and References

1. Book: Moody . T. W. . T. W. Moody . Martin . F. X. . F. X. Martin . Byrne . F. J. . Francis John Byrne . A New History of Ireland: IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists, A Companion to Irish History, Part II . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 1989 . 978-0-19-959306-4 . 172 . en.