The Dukes of Ormonde, 1610-1745

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Toby Christopher Barnard, Jane Fenlon
Boydell & Brewer, 2000 - Biography & Autobiography - 279 pages
A valuable insight into the political and material world of Ireland's leading aristocratic family. HISTORY For much of their lives the two dukes of Ormonde dominated public events in Ireland, where they served the English sovereign as viceroy five times; they were also powerful presences in the Stuart court in England, and commanded armies both in Ireland and Europe. Later, they spent long periods on the continent as travellers and exiles. Yet despite their importance in the public life of the age, neither duke has been the subject of a full modern biography, a gap which this collection of essays aims to fill, using key episodes and phases in the Ormondes' careers to investigate the larger picture. The dukes' lives as great nobles, landowners and converts to Protestantism raise problems specific to Ireland, but they also exemplify the predicament of nobles elsewhere in Europe. A particular focus is on the worlds that they and their wives created, often innovative and always dazzling, and on the clienteles who looked to them for preferment and on which a part of the Ormondes' political weight rested. Throughout, much new light is cast on such vexed questions as the troubled and constantly changing relationship between Ireland and England, between public and private interests, and the roles of women. Dr TOBY BARNARD teaches at the University of Oxford. Contributors: G.E. AYLMER, T.C. BARNARD, EVELINE CRUICKSHANKS, DAVID EDWARDS, JANE FENLON, RAYMOND GILLESPIE, DAVID HAYTON, PATRICK LITTLE, RENÉ MOULINAS, ÉAMONN Ð CIARDHA, NATHALIE GENET ROUFFIAC

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Contents

List of Illustrations vii བྱཱ ཙ ༢ ཌུ
12
the Ormond inheritance sectarian
55
The Marquess of Ormond and the English Parliament
83
The Religion of the first Duke of Ormond
109
The first Duke of Ormond as Patron and Administrator
115
the material worlds of the Dukes
137
Aristocratic Values in the Careers of the Dukes of Ormonde
161
contrasting
177
The Irish Jacobite exile in France 16921715
195
the political following
211
The second Duke of Ormonde and the Atterbury Plot
243
Index
263
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