Maximilian O'Dempsey, 3rd Viscount Clanmalier (died 1691) was an Irish

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. He was the son of

Lewis O'Dempsey, 2nd Viscount Clanmalier Lewis O'Dempsey, 2nd Viscount Clanmalier (died 1683) was an Irish aristocrat of the seventeenth century. He was descended from the Gaelic Dempsey sept of Leinster who had secured their lands in Queen's County through the surrender and regrant ...

and succeeded him in 1683. He was of mixed

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and

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descent. He was a

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and a supporter of his fellow Catholic King James II during the

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. He was appointed Governor of Queen's County by James and attended the

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in the

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of 1689.D'Alton p.108 He died in 1691. Although he had been married twice, to Anne Bermingham and Margaret FitzMaurice, he was childless and his position as Clan Chief was inherited by his younger brother, Terence O'Dempsey, who fled to

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after the confiscation of the family estates carrying with him the original King Charles 1st Title document. This Terence was the ancestor of James Dempsey of Liverpool, a notable Georgian period merchant and ship owner and General sir

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, who commanded the British 2nd Army at D-Day during WW2.

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* D'Alton, John. ''King James's Irish Army List''. The Celtic Bookshop, 1997 17th-century Irish people Year of birth unknown 1714 deaths People from County Laois Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Irish Jacobites Members of the Irish House of Lords {{Ireland-viscount-stub