Terence O'Dempsey, 1st Viscount Clanmalier (

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: ''Toirdelbach Ó Díomasaigh''; died 1638) was an Irish

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. He was the son of Dermot O'Dempsey of Queen's County, part of the

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sept. The family were confirmed in their lands as part of the

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policy. Terence O'Dempsey served as

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of Queen's County, and was knighted by Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex in 1599. In 1631 he was made a

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and Baron in the

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by King Charles 1st. (Viscount Clanmaliere and Baron Philipstown) He was married three times. His first wife was Mary FitzGerald, daughter of Sir Maurice FitzGerald of Laccagh, of a junior branch of the family of the

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and his wife Margaret Butler. His second wife was Genet (or Jenet) Finglas, daughter of Patrick Finglas of Westphailstown, who had previously been married to John Bathe,

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, and the distinguished soldier Sir William Warren. His third wife was Margaret Whittie, widow of John Ichingham (died 1616) of Dunbrody,

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; by her first husband she had a daughter Martha, who married Lewis, Terence's grandson and heir. All Terence's children seem to have been from his first marriage. He conformed at least outwardly to the

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, although his second wife Genet was a devout

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, as were her children by her first husband John Bathe: two of his sons became priests. For this reason, her loyalty to the English Crown was suspect, and she was kept under surveillance. His eldest son Owny (Anthony) O'Dempsey predeceased him, and he was succeeded by his grandson Lewis O'Dempsey, 2nd Viscount Clanmalier, who was

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for his role in the

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but later had his title and some of his estates restored following the

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. His daughter Eleanor married

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, a member of a wealthy

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family.Wauchope p.2 She was the grandmother of

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, the leading Jacobite general during the

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. Another daughter Joan, married

Felim O'Neill Sir Phelim Roe O'Neill of Kinard (Irish: ''Sir Féilim Rua Ó Néill na Ceann Ard''; 1604–1653) was an Irish politician and soldier who started the Irish rebellion in Ulster on 23 October 1641. He joined the Irish Catholic Confederati ...

of the

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O'Neill family. O'Demsey's sister Giles was the mother of Roche MacGeoghegan, Bishop of Kildare. Her grandson (through her son Niall) was Conall the Historian.

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* Wauchope, Piers. ''Patrick Sarsfield and the Williamite War''. Irish Academic Press, 1992. 16th-century Irish people 17th-century Irish people Year of birth unknown 1638 deaths People from County Laois Irish knights Viscounts in the Peerage of Ireland Peers of Ireland created by Charles I {{Ireland-viscount-stub