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She was the daughter of James Madison O'Neill and Callie Floyd. 1426) and British Museum, Harl. Ultimately, the increased cashflow, coupled with th production of materials from the larger labour force, allowed O'Neill to arm and feed over 8,000 men– quite impressive for a Gaelic lord. Jorge Maria O'Neill 3. The title The O'Neill Mór was not a patrilineal hereditary one, but was conferred on the man elected and inaugurated to rule Tír Eoghain. [citation needed]. [12] It was the greatest of all setbacks to English arms in Ireland. These claimants include O'Neill of Corab, O'Neill of Waterford, McShane-Johnson O'Neills of Killetragh, and O'Neill of Dundalk, as well as the primogeniture of the Marqués de Larraín who still use the titular title of Prince of Tyrone. Descendants of this Hugh held tight to the false story that he was descended from Bryan mac Felim Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. Exiled with him was his son Captain Sean/Shane O'Neill. [24] This was unconvincing to them, as before 1593 he had practised as an Anglican, and was not known for having any great interest in religion. Clan MacSweeney-as noted above claim descent from Uí Néill. From 1232 until 1616, the O'Neill were sovereign kings of Tír Eógain, holding territories in the north of Ireland; particularly around modern County Tyrone, County Londonderry and County Antrim, all in modern Northern Ireland. "Hugh O'Neill, the fair Prince of Tyrone, the head of the generosity and valour of the Irish, the most distinguished man in the North for gifts and for wealth, the most dreaded and victorious of his House, and a worthy Heir to the Throne of Ireland, was killed by Bernard MacMahon." Upon that Letters Patent, Pope Leo XIII, the King of Spain, and the King of Portugal all recognized Jorge O'Neill as the Prince of Clanaboy, Tyrone, Ulster, as the Count of Tyrone, and the Head of the Royal House of O'Neill and all of its septs. O’Neill DNA. concluded that these men descend from "a single early-medieval progenitor" and proposed that this could be Niall. ANNE COX witnessed the inventories and estate bonds of Hugh O'Neall between 1746 and 1751 in Frederick County, Virginia. Growing up in an area of English control he had knowledge of English customs and politics, mainly through his attendance of the Irish Parliament and court in England. After 1241, the O'Neill lineage dominated and displaced other lineage, using the disruption of the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169 to their benefit and were able to consolidate. The majority of the descendants will be from Hugh O'Neill and Deborah Joyce, who left Ireland, ca 1805, and settled in what is now Noble County, Ohio. [47] This means that there are numerous families of O'Neill under various spellings that are related, but because they are not the direct descendants of an O'Neill that owned an armorial device do not have rights or claims to any arms themselves. He was the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family have been in Portugal ever since. Of their Irish sample, the geneticists found that 21 percent of men from north-western Ireland, 8 percent from all of Ireland, a substantial percentage of men from western and central Scotland, and about 2 percent of men from New York bore the same Y-chromosome haplotype. 2, 1967. pp. Three of the ancient O'Neill dynasties or principalities, are still represented by direct descendants of the once independent kings, the O'Neills of Clannaboy, the Fews, and the McShane O'Neills of Tyrone. In April 1596, O'Neill received promises of help from Spain, and thereafter chose to temporize with the authorities, professing his loyalty to the crown whenever circumstances required. [2] In Tír Eoghain, Hugh's cousin, Turlough Luineach O'Neill, had succeeded Shane O'Neill as The O'Neill, or chieftain, but was not recognized by the English as the legitimate Earl of Tyrone. Descendant Chart for Hugh O'Neall Sallie Ethel O'Neill was also known as Ethel Callie O'Neill. The O’Neills were the chief family of the Cinel Eoghen, their territory being Tir Eoghen (or Tyrone) which then also included most of Derry and parts of Donegal. By the end of the 17th century, the Earl's line failed in exile, and the "Mac Shane" line legally inherited the chiefship and title. Five years later, Sir Henry Farnham Burke, KCVO, CB, FSA, Somerset Herald stated in 1900 that "the only Pedigree at present on record in either of the Offices of Arms showing a lineal male descent from the House of O'Neill, Monarchs of Ireland, Kings of Ulster, and Princes of Tyrone and Claneboy, is the one registered in the fifty-ninth year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lady Victoria, in favor of His Excellency Jorge O'Neill of Lisbon". Other O'Neill families have settled in the cities of Río Piedras and Caguas. The barony of Dungannon was created in 1542 as the title designated for the declared heir of the Earldom. Yet it fell on deaf ears because the confederates were unable to legitimize their struggle in of the these eyes catholic loyalists. As a principal rebel leader, Oghy O'Hanlon had been stripped of his inheritance by Sir Arthur Chichester, and he may have been taken into protective custody before his exile to Sweden. Part of a fresco in the Vatican depicting a coronation ceremony in Rome in 1608. Art was unable to elevate his son to the kingship, but his grandson was Sir Turlough Luineach O'Neill, The O'Neill Mor 1567–1593, the Earl of ClanConnell, and de jure King of Tyrone for a rocky period during the 1570s. [9], His constant disputes with Turlough were fomented by the English with a view to weakening the power of the O'Neills, but the two came to some agreement and Turlough abdicated in 1593. [2][9], In the following year he was summoned to attend the Irish House of Lords in Dublin as Earl of Tyrone and,[2] in 1587 after a visit to the Court in England, he was awarded a patent to the lands of his grandfather, the first earl, Conn O'Neill. Arms of Sir John Higgins recorded by Athlone Herald, 1724. Driven by contrary winds to the east, they took shelter in the Seine estuary and were told by the Spanish to pass the winter in the Spanish Netherlands and not to proceed to Spain itself. However, there are a few families that may, and some do, claim the rights of O'Neill of Tyrone. Henry's son Cormocke (Cormac) was given land. [42] The main stem of this family is now extinct in the male line; collateral descendants may exist. His wife later remarried to the famous spy novelist, Ian Fleming. [citation needed], In May 1600 the English achieved a strategic breakthrough, when Sir Henry Docwra, at the head of a considerable army, took up a position in O'Neill's rear at Derry; meanwhile, the new lord deputy, Sir Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy (a protégé of Essex[16]), marched in support from Westmeath to Newry, compelling O'Neill to retire to Armagh. [56] The Gilchrists appear to be another family descended from Anradhán. The present day title of Baron O'Neill of Shane's Castle is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. [23] While most of them did not marry and have families, the youngest son Juan O'Neill (1768-1809) married Vincenta Gual y Vives de Cananas from Palma, Mallorca, and took up residence on the island. In 1493, Henry VII of England referred to Henry O'Neill, King of Tyrone, as "the Chief of the Irish Kings" and gave him a gift of livery.[5]. The Bruce Invasion of Ireland devastated the Norman Earldom of Ulster, which held sway over eastern Ulster and most of its north coast all the way to Derry. This is another branch of the Tyrone O'Neills which started in the mid 15th century. Ms. 6096 (N.L.I. They were given an army of more than 2000 Scots to return to Ulster to attempt to retake their father's estate and title. Famous O’Neills throughout history Hugh O’Neill. O'Neill followed Shane's policy of arming his Clansmen, rather than relying as Turlough had done upon Scots mercenary soldiers, such as redshanks or Irish professionals employed under buannacht. The traditional title of the head of this family branch is The O'Neill Buidhe or The O'Neill of Clannabuidhe.