Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford (1639August 1704), was 4th

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, of Corren, and 4th Baron of

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and an army commander and politician of Irish descent in the service of Emperor Ferdinand III in the

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and later of Duke

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in Nancy.

Life

Francis Taaffe was born at

in County Sligo, Ireland, the third son of

Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford (c. 160331 December 1677), known as 2nd Viscount Taaffe, of Corren and 2nd Baron of Ballymote between 1642 and 1661, was an Irish Royalist officer who played a prominent part in the Wars of the Three Kin ...

(who, following the

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had accompanied King Charles II of England in exile in 1652), and Mary (nee White), Countess of Carlingford. After the death of his elder brother, Francis received the titles of Earl of Carlingford and

, both belonging to the

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. By the agency of King Charles, Francis Taaffe studied at the

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, and became a

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at the Imperial court in Vienna. He began a military career as a commander in the Imperial forces during the Franco-Dutch War and became a most intimate friend of the Lorrainian duke Charles IV, who from 1670 had to cope with the occupying troops of King

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. Taaffe rose to the rank of Field Marshal, having greatly distinguished himself at the 1683 Battle of Vienna and in other campaigns of the Great Turkish War, and was a member of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Lord Carlingford was sent on many important diplomatic missions, and at the end of his life was chancellor and chief minister to Duke Leopold of Lorraine.

Family

In 1676, he married Helena Maximiliana von Traudisch. He died without children in August 1704 in Nancy, where he is buried at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Annonciation et Saint-Sigisbert in Nancy.

Notes

References

* * G.E. Cokayne, Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, Hrsg.: ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed.'', Band III, page 29. * Jérémy Filet, “The networks of Francis Taaffe, 3rd Earl of Carlingford and Irish Jacobite émigrés in the Duchy of Lorraine” in ''Eighteenth-Century Ireland'' 36, 2021.

External links

ThePeerage.com
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