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Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan. Anne, Viscountess Sarsfield. Patrick Sarsfield was an Irish landowner and soldier of the seventeenth century noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars. He is best known as the father of Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, and is sometimes referred to as Patrick Sarsfield the Elder because of this.
Patrick Sarsfield (irlandais : Pádraig Sáirséal), né en 1655 à Lucan (Irlande), mort le 21 août 1693 peu après la bataille de Neerwinden (29 juillet 1693) à Huy (province de Liège dans l'actuelle Belgique), est un militaire irlandais du parti jacobite, qui a combattu au service de Jacques II puis de Louis XIV.
Patrick Sarsfield is thought to have been born on his family estate near Lucan in County Kildare in, or around 1650. His father, also Patrick, was of Anglo-Norman descent and his mother, Anne, was a daughter of the great Gaelic chieftain, Rory O’ Moore, who helped organise the rebellion of 1641.
17 de mai. de 2018 · Sarsfield, Patrick ( c. 1650–93). Jacobite earl of Lucan. Born to a catholic family of mixed Anglo-Norman and Gaelic ancestry, Sarsfield entered the Irish army in 1678. He then served in the English regiments which Charles II detached to fight in the army of Louis XIV of France, but returned to England at the succession of James II in 1685 ...
1 de mar. de 2021 · Dr Loïc Guyon, the French Honorary Consul remarked “2021 marks the 330th anniversary of the Siege of Limerick and the project to bring Patrick Sarsfield home is timely in that regards. He was an important figure in Irish and French history but he died in a country not of his choosing. It is an ambitious project but we believe an important one.
Sarsfield commanded the Irish troops in England in 1688, but fled to France with James, returning with him to Ireland in 1689. In the war that followed Sarsfield rose rapidly to major‐general. His attacks on Williamite supply lines forced the raising of the first siege of Limerick but, after defeat at Aughrim, he concluded the second siege of Limerick on terms which allowed him to sail for ...
Originally of English descent, the Patrick Sarsfield family were wealthy Roman Catholic merchants, who settled in Dublin; Sir William Patrick Sarsfield was knighted in 1566, reportedly for providing the Crown financial support during Shane O'Neill's rebellion. 17 Facts About Patrick Sarsfield | FactSnippet.
