Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin
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Dermod McMurrough O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin (October 1594 – 29 December 1624) was an Irish baron. cites


Biography

Dermod, who was born in October 1594, was the son of
Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin Murrough MacMurrough O'Brien, 4th Baron of Inchiquin (1562 – 24 July 1597) was the son of Murrough McDermot O'Brien, 3rd Baron Inchiquin and Margaret Cusack, daughter of Sir Thomas Cusack of Cussington, Meath, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and his ...
(1562 – 24 July 1597), the son of
Murrough McDermot O'Brien, 3rd Baron Inchiquin Murrough McDermot O'Brien (c.1550 - 20 April 1573) was the 3rd Baron Inchiquin. He was the son of Dermod O'Brien, 2nd Baron Inchiquin and Margaret O'Brien and inherited his title in 1557 on the death of his father. He married Margaret Cusack, ...
and Mabel Nugent, daughter of
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, 6th
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. cites He inherited the barony at the age of two.


Family

Dermod O'Brien married Ellen, eldest daughter of Sir Edmund FitzJohn FitzGerald of
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in
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, from that powerful
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family. They had four sons, and several daughters: * Murrough, 6th Baron Inchiquin, their eldest son, became the first
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. * Henry (d. 1645), a lieutenant colonel in the army of King Charles I. * Christopher (died 1664), a lieutenant-colonel in the Irish Confederate Army, who was created "Baron of Inchiquin," by the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation. He never married. *Murtough O'Brien, who led a guerrilla campaign against Cromwell's generals in the Burren. He later obtained a pardon and emigrated to Spain where he became a general in the Spanish army * Honora, cites who married Anthony Stoughton of
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. * Mary, married Michael Boyle,
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, and Eleanor (who became the wife of the William Hill of Hillsborough, M.P., and mother to
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M.P.). *Ann, died unmarried


Ancestors


See also

*
Early Barons Inchiquin There were six early Barons Inchiquin in Ireland between 1543 and 1654. The title was granted to Murrough O'Brien, the brother of Conor O'Brien, King of Thomond, when he surrendered his Irish royalty to King Henry VIII in 1543. His descendants ...
* Baron Inchiquin
O'Brien Pedigree


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* * * * Endnotes: ** ** ** * {{DEFAULTSORT:Inchiquin, Dermod OBrien, 5th Baron 1594 births 1624 deaths 17th-century Irish people People from County Clare Dermod Barons Inchiquin