Hugh_O'Donnell,_2nd_Earl_of_Tyrconnell

Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell

Gaelic Irish nobleman, titular Lord of Tír Conaill

Hugh Albert O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (Irish: Aodh Ailbhe mac Rudhraighe Uí Dhomhnaill; October 1606 – August/September 1642^[1]) was titular King of Tír Conaill, and son of Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell whose title was however attainted in 1614.^{[lower-alpha 1]} In adult life, he used the style Earl of Tyrconnell, Baron of Donegal and Lifford, Lord of Sligo and Lower Connaught, and Knight Commander of the Order of Alcántara.^[2]

Hugh Albert O’Donnell, at 10 years of age as a page at the court of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria.

Biography

O'Donnell was the son of Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell and his wife Bridget, the daughter of Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare.^[3]^{[lower-alpha 2]}

O'Donnell was three weeks shy of his first birthday when he sailed from Lough Swilly during the Flight of the Earls. He accompanied his father to Rome, where his father and uncle Cathbarr O'Donnell died of fevers. His aunt Rosa, the wife of Cathbarr, met and married Owen Roe O'Neill, and it is probable that O'Donnell was in her care, because both he and his cousin, also named Hugh O'Donnell, received a modest pension from Archduke Albert, governor of the Low Countries, from 1615,^{[lower-alpha 3]} and were raised in Leuven where they were educated by Franciscan colleagues of Archbishop Conry.^[4]^[5] He was a page to the Infanta Isabella, daughter of King Philip III of Spain.^[4]^[6] In time he joined the service of King Philip, and was commissioned colonel of a tercio in 1632.^[5] He was killed in action when his ship engaged a French vessel in August or September 1642 and caught fire.^{[citation needed]}

O'Donnell left no immediate heirs, although the Earldom, were it not attainted in 1614, would have passed by remainder to his uncle Cathbarr O'Donnell, whose line was extinct by then, and thence, to his 1st cousin Donal Oge O'Donnell, according to the terms of the letters patent.^[7]

As Hugh had never recognised James VI and I as his monarch, he had no hope of being recognised as the 2nd Earl, under the principle of the "Fount of honour". He had an undoubted claim to the title, but took no steps in 1614 to defend it when it was debated in the Irish House of Lords. He would at least have had to submit to King James to take his place in the House of Lords, and until then he did so the title was "in abeyance".

Family

O'Donnell married Anna-Margaret, daughter of Maximilien II de Hénin, 5th Count of Bossu, Knight of the Golden Fleece (died 8 December 1625) and Alexandrine Franeoise de Gavre; and a near kinswoman of the last eccentric Charles, Duke of Guise.^[4]^[8]^{[lower-alpha 4]}

v t e O'Donnell family tree
Issue of Hugh McManus O'Donnell (Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill; c. 1520 - 1600)^{[lower-roman 1]} First marriage: (Unknown woman) Duncan "Scaite" O'Donnell (Donnchadh Ó Domhnaill)^{[lower-roman 2]} Rory O'Donnell (Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill) Died 1575 Donnell O'Donnell (Domhnall Ó Domhnaill) Died 14 September 1590^{[lower-roman 3]} Married a daughter of Turlough Lynagh O'Neill around c. 1589^{[lower-roman 4]} Donnell Oge O'Donnell (fl. 1607)^{[lower-roman 5]} Unnamed daughter Married a son of Turlough Lynagh O'Neill Second marriage, c. 1569: Fiona MacDonald (Fionnghuala Nic Dhomhnaill, also known as Iníon Dubh; fl. 1567–1611), daughter of James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg and Agnes Campbell.^{[lower-roman 6]} Joanna O'Donnell (Siobhán Ní Domhnaill) Born c. 1569^{[lower-roman 7]} Died early 1591^{[lower-roman 7]}^{[lower-roman 8]}^{[lower-roman 9]} Married Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in 1574^{[lower-roman 8]} - marriage repudiated in 1579^{[lower-roman 10]} Possibly remarried Hugh (born 1585)^{[lower-roman 11]} Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill) Born c. 1572,^{[lower-roman 12]}^{[lower-roman 13]} possibly 30 October 1572 Died 10 September 1602^{[lower-roman 14]} Betrothed to Roisin O'Neill in c. 1584^{[lower-roman 12]} - separated in 1595^{[lower-roman 12]} Rory O'Donnell (Ruaidrí Ó Domhnaill) Born 1575^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]} Died 28 July 1608^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]} Married Bridget FitzGerald of Kildare in c. December 1606^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]} Hugh Albert O'Donnell (October 1606 - 1642)^{[lower-roman 18]}^{[lower-roman 19]}^{[lower-roman 20]} Mary Stuart O'Donnell (c. 1607 - after 1639)^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 21]}^{[lower-roman 18]} Some sources incorrectly suggest that there is an elder daughter named Elizabeth (see Elizabeth_Plunket#Errors in her genealogy) Nuala O'Donnell (Nuala Ní Domhnaill) Born c. 1576^{[lower-roman 22]}^{[lower-roman 23]} Died c. 1630^{[lower-roman 24]}^{[lower-roman 25]} Married Niall Garve O'Donnell in 1591^{[lower-roman 25]} - separated 1600^{[lower-roman 26]}^{[lower-roman 25]} Naghtan O'Donnell (fl. 1608)^{[lower-roman 27]}^{[lower-roman 28]}^{[lower-roman 29]} A son (c. 1596 - 1600)^{[lower-roman 30]}^{[lower-roman 31]} Grania O'Donnell (fl. 1607 - 1617)^{[lower-roman 32]}^{[lower-roman 27]} Manus O'Donnell (Maghnus Ó Domhnaill) Born c. 1579^{[lower-roman 33]} Died 22 October 1600^{[lower-roman 34]} Margaret O'Donnell (Mairghead Ní Domhnaill) fl. 1608, possibly died 1662 Mary O'Donnell (Máire Ní Domhnaill) Died 1662 Married Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan in c. 1593^{[lower-roman 35]}^{[lower-roman 36]} Rory Oge O'Cahan^{[lower-roman 35]} A daughter^{[lower-roman 35]} Married Teigue O'Rourke, 1599^{[lower-roman 37]} Brian O'Rourke^{[lower-roman 37]} Caffar O'Donnell (Cathbarr Ó Domhnaill) Born c. 1583^{[lower-roman 13]} Died 15 September 1608^{[lower-roman 38]} Married Rosa O'Doherty^{[lower-roman 38]} Hugh O'Donnell (born c. June 1605)^{[lower-roman 38]}^{[lower-roman 39]} Gráinne O'Donnell (Gráinne Ní Domhnaill)^{[lower-roman 40]} References O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). "O'Donnell (Ó Domhnaill), Sir Aodh mac Maghnusa". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006332.v1. The historicity of this person is disputed; Ó Domhnaill, Niall; Na Glúnta Rosannacha (1952), page 87 Annals of the Four Masters: "1590: ...the son of O'Donnell himself, who, being unable to display prowess or defend himself, was slain at Doire-leathan, on one side of the harbour of Telinn, on the 14th of September." Morgan, Hiram (1993). Tyrone's Rebellion : the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland. Internet Archive. [London] : Royal Historical Society ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-86193-224-5. Hegarty, Roddy. Imeacht Na nIarlí: The Flight of the Earls: 1607 - 2007 (PDF). Retrieved 24 April 2024. O'Byrne, Emmett (2009). "MacDonnell (Nic Dhomhnaill), Fiona (Fionnghuala) ('Iníon Dubh')". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006337.v1. Concannon, p. 218-219 "Siobhan was probably the eldest of the family, and must have been born not later than 1569." "We know little of Siobhan, who can hardly have been more than one-and- twenty, when she died in 1590." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004, p. 511-512 "Bagenal (O'Neill), Mabel". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004, p. 839 Concannon, p. 218 "The inscription on the tomb in San Pietro in Montorio shows that her eldest child, Hugh, was born in 1585." Morgan, Hiram (October 2009). "O'Donnell, 'Red' Hugh (Ó Domhnaill, Aodh Ruadh)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006343.v1. Concannon, p. 218 Annals of the Four Masters: "1602:...O'Donnell should take the disease of his death and the sickness of his dissolution; and, after lying seventeen days on the bed, he died, on the 10th of September, in the house which the King of Spain himself had at that town (Simancas)..."" Bagwell 1895 O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). "O'Donnell (Ó Domhnall), Ruaidhrí". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006701.v1. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Webb, Alfred (1878). "Rury O'Donnell". A Compendium of Irish Biography. Silke 2006 "Hugh Albert O'Donnell, born [to Rory and Bridget] about October 1606, was the only son of this marriage, Mary Stuart O'Donnell being born about a year later." Bagwell 1895 "About ninety persons sailed with the earls, among whom were Tyrconnel's son Hugh, aged eleven months..." Ulwencreutz, Lars (2013), Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V, p. 136, ISBN 978-1-304-58135-8 "Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (1606-1642) Prince and Lord of Tryconnell". "O'Donnell, Lady Mary Stuart (b. 1607?, d. in or after 1639), noblewoman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20557. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Casway 2009. Casway gives her birthdate as c. 1575 Concannon, p. 218 "O'Clery tells us that Nuala was already married to Niall Garbh in 1592. This will place her birth-year with some degree of probability about 1577 — not later." Casway, Jerrold (July 2007). "Women in Flight". History Ireland. 15 (4). Retrieved 18 April 2024. Casway 2009 O'Sullivan Beare 2008. Philip O'Sullivan Beare notes that Manus's death (October 1600) occurred shortly after Nuala and Niall separated. Dunlop, Robert. "O'Donnell, Niall Garv". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. 41. Hill, George. Historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim. p. 221. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Annals of the Four Masters: "1608: Niall Garv O'Donnell, with his brothers Hugh Boy and Donnell, and his son, Naghtan, were taken prisoners about the festival of St. John in this year." McGurk, John (August 2007). "The Flight of the Earls: escape or strategic regrouping?". History Ireland. 15 (4). According to the English officials who wrote the Calendar of State Papers, Hugh Roe personally killed Niall Garve's four-year-old son (also his own nephew) "O'Donnell". 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 20. 1911. Concannon, p. 218 "Manus may have been born about 1579 or 1580. He was old enough to play a man's part in the battle in which he met his death at the hands of Niall Garbh (A.D. 1600)" Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh names the sons in the order of their birth: Hugh Roe, Ruairi, Manus and Cathbar. Concannon, p. 232 Clavin, Terry (October 2009). "O'Cahan, Sir Donnell Ballach". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006536.v1. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Pollard, Albert Frederick. "O'Cahan, Donnell Ballagh". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. 41. Gallogy, Dan (1963). "Brian Oge O'Rourke and the Nine Years War". Breifne Journal. 2: 194–195. Darren, McGettigan (October 2009). "O'Donnell, Caffar". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.002288.v1. Annals of the Four Masters: "[Flight of the Earls, September] 1607: ...Rose, the daughter of O'Doherty, and wife of Caffar, with her son, Hugh, aged two years and three months..." O'Donnell, Eunan; Reflection on the Flight of the Earls; Donegal Annual, Bliainiris Dhún na nGall, Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society, No. 58 (2006); pp. 31-44. Gráinne is known only as a sister of the Earl (i.e., Rory), with no additional information. Bibliography Concannon, H. "'The Woman of the Piercing Wail' (The Lady Nuala O'Donnell)". The Irish ecclesiastical record. 16. Dublin: John F. Fowler. Silke, John J. (May 2006). "O'Donnell, Rury , styled first earl of Tyrconnell (1574/5–1608)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20559. Casway, Jerrold (2009). "O'Donnell, Nuala". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006696.v1. Retrieved 18 April 2024. Bagwell, Richard (1895). "O'Donnell, Rory" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. pp. 444–447. Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, Brian, eds. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in association with the British Academy: from the earliest times to the year 2000. Vol. 41. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1. O'Sullivan Beare, Philip (2008). Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth. Translated by Byrne, Matthew J. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts.

O'Donnell family tree

Issue of Hugh McManus O'Donnell (Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill; c. 1520 - 1600)^{[lower-roman 1]}

First marriage: (Unknown woman)

Duncan "Scaite" O'Donnell (Donnchadh Ó Domhnaill)^{[lower-roman 2]}

Rory O'Donnell (Ruaidhri Ó Domhnaill)
- Died 1575

Donnell O'Donnell (Domhnall Ó Domhnaill)
- Died 14 September 1590^{[lower-roman 3]}
  - Married a daughter of Turlough Lynagh O'Neill around c. 1589^{[lower-roman 4]}
    - Donnell Oge O'Donnell (fl. 1607)^{[lower-roman 5]}

Unnamed daughter
- Married a son of Turlough Lynagh O'Neill

Second marriage, c. 1569: Fiona MacDonald (Fionnghuala Nic Dhomhnaill, also known as Iníon Dubh; fl. 1567–1611), daughter of James MacDonald, 6th of Dunnyveg and Agnes Campbell.^{[lower-roman 6]}

Joanna O'Donnell (Siobhán Ní Domhnaill)
- Born c. 1569^{[lower-roman 7]}
- Died early 1591^{[lower-roman 7]}^{[lower-roman 8]}^{[lower-roman 9]}
  - Married Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone in 1574^{[lower-roman 8]} - marriage repudiated in 1579^{[lower-roman 10]}
  - Possibly remarried
    - Hugh (born 1585)^{[lower-roman 11]}

Hugh Roe O'Donnell (Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill)
- Born c. 1572,^{[lower-roman 12]}^{[lower-roman 13]} possibly 30 October 1572
- Died 10 September 1602^{[lower-roman 14]}
  - Betrothed to Roisin O'Neill in c. 1584^{[lower-roman 12]} - separated in 1595^{[lower-roman 12]}

Rory O'Donnell (Ruaidrí Ó Domhnaill)
- Born 1575^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]}
- Died 28 July 1608^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]}
  - Married Bridget FitzGerald of Kildare in c. December 1606^{[lower-roman 16]}^{[lower-roman 17]}
    - Hugh Albert O'Donnell (October 1606 - 1642)^{[lower-roman 18]}^{[lower-roman 19]}^{[lower-roman 20]}
    - Mary Stuart O'Donnell (c. 1607 - after 1639)^{[lower-roman 15]}^{[lower-roman 21]}^{[lower-roman 18]}
    - Some sources incorrectly suggest that there is an elder daughter named Elizabeth (see Elizabeth_Plunket#Errors in her genealogy)

Nuala O'Donnell (Nuala Ní Domhnaill)
- Born c. 1576^{[lower-roman 22]}^{[lower-roman 23]}
- Died c. 1630^{[lower-roman 24]}^{[lower-roman 25]}
  - Married Niall Garve O'Donnell in 1591^{[lower-roman 25]} - separated 1600^{[lower-roman 26]}^{[lower-roman 25]}
    - Naghtan O'Donnell (fl. 1608)^{[lower-roman 27]}^{[lower-roman 28]}^{[lower-roman 29]}
    - A son (c. 1596 - 1600)^{[lower-roman 30]}^{[lower-roman 31]}
    - Grania O'Donnell (fl. 1607 - 1617)^{[lower-roman 32]}^{[lower-roman 27]}

Manus O'Donnell (Maghnus Ó Domhnaill)
- Born c. 1579^{[lower-roman 33]}
- Died 22 October 1600^{[lower-roman 34]}

Margaret O'Donnell (Mairghead Ní Domhnaill)
- fl. 1608, possibly died 1662

Mary O'Donnell (Máire Ní Domhnaill)
- Died 1662
  - Married Donnell Ballagh O'Cahan in c. 1593^{[lower-roman 35]}^{[lower-roman 36]}
    - Rory Oge O'Cahan^{[lower-roman 35]}
    - A daughter^{[lower-roman 35]}
  - Married Teigue O'Rourke, 1599^{[lower-roman 37]}
    - Brian O'Rourke^{[lower-roman 37]}

Caffar O'Donnell (Cathbarr Ó Domhnaill)
- Born c. 1583^{[lower-roman 13]}
- Died 15 September 1608^{[lower-roman 38]}
  - Married Rosa O'Doherty^{[lower-roman 38]}
    - Hugh O'Donnell (born c. June 1605)^{[lower-roman 38]}^{[lower-roman 39]}

Gráinne O'Donnell (Gráinne Ní Domhnaill)^{[lower-roman 40]}

References

O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). "O'Donnell (Ó Domhnaill), Sir Aodh mac Maghnusa". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006332.v1.
The historicity of this person is disputed; Ó Domhnaill, Niall; Na Glúnta Rosannacha (1952), page 87
Annals of the Four Masters: "1590: ...the son of O'Donnell himself, who, being unable to display prowess or defend himself, was slain at Doire-leathan, on one side of the harbour of Telinn, on the 14th of September."
Morgan, Hiram (1993). Tyrone's Rebellion : the outbreak of the Nine Years War in Tudor Ireland. Internet Archive. [London] : Royal Historical Society ; Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-86193-224-5.
Hegarty, Roddy. Imeacht Na nIarlí: The Flight of the Earls: 1607 - 2007 (PDF). Retrieved 24 April 2024.
O'Byrne, Emmett (2009). "MacDonnell (Nic Dhomhnaill), Fiona (Fionnghuala) ('Iníon Dubh')". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006337.v1.
Concannon, p. 218-219 "Siobhan was probably the eldest of the family, and must have been born not later than 1569." "We know little of Siobhan, who can hardly have been more than one-and- twenty, when she died in 1590."
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004, p. 511-512
"Bagenal (O'Neill), Mabel". Dictionary of Irish Biography. October 2009.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004, p. 839
Concannon, p. 218 "The inscription on the tomb in San Pietro in Montorio shows that her eldest child, Hugh, was born in 1585."
Morgan, Hiram (October 2009). "O'Donnell, 'Red' Hugh (Ó Domhnaill, Aodh Ruadh)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006343.v1.
Concannon, p. 218
Annals of the Four Masters: "1602:...O'Donnell should take the disease of his death and the sickness of his dissolution; and, after lying seventeen days on the bed, he died, on the 10th of September, in the house which the King of Spain himself had at that town (Simancas)...""
Bagwell 1895
O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). "O'Donnell (Ó Domhnall), Ruaidhrí". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006701.v1. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
Webb, Alfred (1878). "Rury O'Donnell". A Compendium of Irish Biography.
Silke 2006 "Hugh Albert O'Donnell, born [to Rory and Bridget] about October 1606, was the only son of this marriage, Mary Stuart O'Donnell being born about a year later."
Bagwell 1895 "About ninety persons sailed with the earls, among whom were Tyrconnel's son Hugh, aged eleven months..."
Ulwencreutz, Lars (2013), Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V, p. 136, ISBN 978-1-304-58135-8 "Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (1606-1642) Prince and Lord of Tryconnell".
"O'Donnell, Lady Mary Stuart (b. 1607?, d. in or after 1639), noblewoman". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-20557. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
Casway 2009. Casway gives her birthdate as c. 1575
Concannon, p. 218 "O'Clery tells us that Nuala was already married to Niall Garbh in 1592. This will place her birth-year with some degree of probability about 1577 — not later."
Casway, Jerrold (July 2007). "Women in Flight". History Ireland. 15 (4). Retrieved 18 April 2024.
Casway 2009
O'Sullivan Beare 2008. Philip O'Sullivan Beare notes that Manus's death (October 1600) occurred shortly after Nuala and Niall separated.
Dunlop, Robert. "O'Donnell, Niall Garv". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. 41.
Hill, George. Historical account of the Macdonnells of Antrim. p. 221. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
Annals of the Four Masters: "1608: Niall Garv O'Donnell, with his brothers Hugh Boy and Donnell, and his son, Naghtan, were taken prisoners about the festival of St. John in this year."
McGurk, John (August 2007). "The Flight of the Earls: escape or strategic regrouping?". History Ireland. 15 (4).
According to the English officials who wrote the Calendar of State Papers, Hugh Roe personally killed Niall Garve's four-year-old son (also his own nephew)
"O'Donnell". 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. 20. 1911.
Concannon, p. 218 "Manus may have been born about 1579 or 1580. He was old enough to play a man's part in the battle in which he met his death at the hands of Niall Garbh (A.D. 1600)" Lughaidh Ó Cléirigh names the sons in the order of their birth: Hugh Roe, Ruairi, Manus and Cathbar.
Concannon, p. 232
Clavin, Terry (October 2009). "O'Cahan, Sir Donnell Ballach". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006536.v1. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
Pollard, Albert Frederick. "O'Cahan, Donnell Ballagh". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900. 41.
Gallogy, Dan (1963). "Brian Oge O'Rourke and the Nine Years War". Breifne Journal. 2: 194–195.
Darren, McGettigan (October 2009). "O'Donnell, Caffar". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.002288.v1.
Annals of the Four Masters: "[Flight of the Earls, September] 1607: ...Rose, the daughter of O'Doherty, and wife of Caffar, with her son, Hugh, aged two years and three months..."
O'Donnell, Eunan; Reflection on the Flight of the Earls; Donegal Annual, Bliainiris Dhún na nGall, Journal of the County Donegal Historical Society, No. 58 (2006); pp. 31-44. Gráinne is known only as a sister of the Earl (i.e., Rory), with no additional information.

Bibliography

Concannon, H. "'The Woman of the Piercing Wail' (The Lady Nuala O'Donnell)". The Irish ecclesiastical record. 16. Dublin: John F. Fowler.
Silke, John J. (May 2006). "O'Donnell, Rury , styled first earl of Tyrconnell (1574/5–1608)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/20559.
Casway, Jerrold (2009). "O'Donnell, Nuala". Dictionary of Irish Biography. doi:10.3318/dib.006696.v1. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
Bagwell, Richard (1895). "O'Donnell, Rory" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 41. pp. 444–447.
Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, Brian, eds. (2004). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: in association with the British Academy: from the earliest times to the year 2000. Vol. 41. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1.
O'Sullivan Beare, Philip (2008). Chapters towards a History of Ireland in the reign of Elizabeth. Translated by Byrne, Matthew J. CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts.

Notes

he was also equally styled Hugh-Albert or Albert-Hugh O'Donnell (Burke 1866, p. 410).
Bridget was left behind in the haste of Tyrconnel's flight, and lived to marry Nicholas Barnewell, Lord Kingsland (Macneill 1911, p. 8).
The "Conde de Tyrconnell" and Don Hugo O'Donnell were in the receipt of a modest pension from Archduke Albert. As both boys were called Hugh, Conde de Tyrconnell was given the additional name of Albert, after Archduke Albert, his protector, and who was in all likelihood his godfather in confirmation, which is the reason why Tyrconnell was known as Hugh-Albert or Albert-Hugh (Burke 1866, p. 410).
Maximilian de Hennin, Baron of Liederkerke, Viscount of Brussels, Count of Bossut, etc., Knight of the Golden Fleece (Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1866, p. 461).

[1]
Ulwencreutz 2013, p. 136.
[2]
- O’Donnell, Francis Martin (2018), The O'Donnells of Tyrconnell – A Hidden Legacy, Washington, D.C.: Academica Press LLC (page 146), ISBN 978-1-680534740
[3]
Macneill 1911, p. 8.
[4]
Burke 1866, p. 410.
[5]
Campbell 2015, p. 103.
[6]
RIA 1830, p. 134.
[7]
The text of the Letters Patent is referenced in G.O. Ms. 169 (National Library of Ireland) and in several slight variations as follows: (a) in pages 2388-2389 of the Appendix in Volume VI of the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters (De Burca’s 1990 re-print of the 1856 edition by John O’Donovan); (b) in page 39 of the Fate and Fortunes of the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnel, by Rev. C.P. Meehan (1870); (c) in a partial translation of the Latin original of the Letters Patent held by Count O’Donnell von Tyrconnell in Austria, and recounted in O’Domhnaill Abu (the O’Donnell Clan Newsletter no. 12 of Winter 1989). Versions (a) and (b) referenced above make explicit reference to the remainder to Donal Oge O’Donnell
[8]
Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society 1866, p. 461.

References

Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, p. 410
Campbell, Ian (2015), Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity Before Race: The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century, Manchester University Press, p. 103, ISBN 978-1-5261-0264-5
Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society (11 April 1866), "Proceedings and Papers", The Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, 5: 464
Macneill, Ronald John (1911), "O'Donnell" , in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 6–8
O’Donnell, Francis Martin (2018), The O'Donnells of Tyrconnell – A Hidden Legacy, Washington, D.C.: Academica Press LLC, ISBN 978-1-680534740
RIA (1830), "Section II Government, Constitution, Legislation etc.", The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Academy, p. 314
Ulwencreutz, Lars (2013), Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V, Lulu.com, p. 136, ISBN 978-1-304-58135-8 "Hugh O'Donnell, 2nd Earl of Tyrconnell (1606-1642) Prince and Lord of Tryconnell.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill	King of Tir Conaill 1608–1642	Vacant
Preceded by Rudhraighe Ó Domhnaill	Earl of Tyrconnell 1608–1642	Vacant