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William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell

Irish Jacobite peer (died c.1691)

The Right Honourable Lieutenant-Colonel The Lord Bourke of Castleconnell
Uilleag de Búrca
Lord Lieutenant of Limerick
In office 1689 (1689)–1692 (1692)
Monarch	James II
Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick
In office 1689 (1689)–1691 (1691)
Member of the Irish House of Lords
Hereditary Peerage c.1680–c.1691
Preceded by	Thomas Bourke
Succeeded by	Forfeit
Personal details
Born	William Bourke Ireland
Died	c.1691 France
Parents	Thomas Bourke Margaret Hore
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1689–1692
Rank	Captain (1789) Lieutenant-Colonel (1691)
Commands held	Earl of Tyrone's Regiment of Foot Sutherland's Regiment of Horse
Battles/wars	Battle of Aughrim (1691)

William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell (died c.1691) was an Irish Jacobite peer.

Background[edit]

Bourke was the son of Thomas Bourke, 7th Baron Bourke of Connell and Margaret Hore. He inherited his father's peerage in 1680. He was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Limerick and Lord Lieutenant of the City of LimerickbyJames II of England.^[1] During the Williamite War in Ireland, he was summoned to the Irish House of Lords in the brief Patriot Parliament called by James in 1689 and received a commission as a Captain in the Earl of Tyrone's Regiment of Foot.^[2][3] He later became a Lieutenant colonel in Sutherland's Regiment of Horse and fought at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.

Exile[edit]

Following the Jacobite defeat, Bourke followed James into exile in France and was attainted of his title and estates by the English government.^[4] He died in France in obscurity.

Arms[edit]

Coat of arms of William Bourke, 8th Baron Bourke of Connell

Crest A Cat-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or. Escutcheon Or, a cross gules, in the first quarter a dexter hand couped at the wrist and erect sable. Supporters Two Cats-a-Mountain sejant guardant proper, collared and chained Or[5]

See also[edit]

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

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Bibliography[edit]

• Barry, James Grene (1889). "The Bourkes of Clanwilliam". The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 9 (80): 192–203. ISSN 0790-6382.
• Burke, Bernard (1883). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Burke's Peerage.
• Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. London: Harrison & Sons.
• O'Hart, John (1892). The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation. Vol. 2 (5th ed.). Retrieved 2024-05-07.
• "Bourke, William | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 2024-05-07.

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