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8 UMBEBSLADB —UPPER OSSORT. UMBERSLADK See "Abohui ot Umbkbsladb, oo. Warwick/' Baxonj (Archer)^ er. 1747 ;■ ex, 1778. » «  UMFRAVILL. i.e.^ ** JJuwEAnLL," Barony {UmfraviU), er, 1295; dormarU 1381 ; and in a5«yafiM linM 1421 ; Me " Amqus " Earidom [8.]. UPPER OSSORY. Barony [I.] i. Babnabt, or Bbtan, or Babnabd Fitz-patbiok, I 1541 oMenoiM Mao-Qill-PatrioK|(*) t. and b. of Barnaby Mao-Qill- • • Patrick, Cbief of Upper Oisory, (living U22 by (— ) da. of (— ) O'MoRi, feudal Ijord of l«iz, tue, his father before 8 Oct. 1587, at which date he submitted to the commissioners of Hen. VIII., and was consequently er, by pat dat. at Dublin, 1 1 June 1541(i>) BARON OF UPPER OSSORY [I.], being subse- quently 1 July 1548, knighted. He was afterwards imprisoned at Watarford till he reatored "some preys he hud seized in Leix." He m. firstly, about 1580, Margaret, widow of Thomas FitzQerald (of Deamond), first da. of Piers (Butlib), Earl of Ormomdb and 0880RT [I.], by Margaret, da. of Qerald (FitsGbbald), 8th Eabl op Eildabb [I.]. He flt, secondly, Elizabeth, third daughter of Bryan O'Conhob, of OfiUey, by Mary, da. of Gerald (FitzGbbald), 9th Eabl ov Kildabb [I.]. She waa Uying 25 July 1551. He, haying long been impotent, d. 1576. II. 1576. i^. Barnady (Fitzpatiok), Baron op Uppkb-Ossort [I.], first s. and h. by first wife, 6. about 1585 ; was sent into EuKland, as a pledge of his father's loyalty, and ed. at that Court along with Prince Edward, being hia "proxy for correction.'* In 1551, he was a Gent, of the Privy Chamber to Ed. VI., as he war, shortly afterwards, to the Kiug of France. In 1558 he took an active part against Wystt's rebellion. He appears to have been present at the siege of Leitb, and to have been knighiedt at Berwick, in 1560, by the Duke of Norfolk, as also in 1566 at Drogheda(«) by the L. Deputy Sidney [I.]. He lue. his father in the werage [I.J 1576, and, in 1578, he defeated and slew "the great rebel " Rory Oge O'More. He was, however, involved in a life-long feud with the Eurl of Ormonde, through wboee influence he and his wife were imprisoned in Dublin Castle, 14 Jan. 1581. He m. in 1560 his cousin, Jpan, da. of Rowland (Bubtaoi), 2d Viscodkt BALToraLASS [1.1 by Joan, sister of Edmond, Ist Babon Dumboynb [I.], da. of James Butlbb, of Dunboyne. He d, s.p.m.(<l) somewhat suddenly, 11 Sep. 1581, aged about 46 at the Dukedom of Kent was oat down in 1866 (and that too, strangely enough, by the late Duke*8 only child) to an iSarUom, behind which Earldom, for no good reason apparently (nnless the using up of as manv as possible of the Royal titles at one blow waa so considered), the Earldom of Ulster was placed ; so that henceforth (as long aa thMe titles exist) it is likely to remain in profound concealment. (A) " The Mao Gilla Phadruig (FiU Patrick) waa in the early period of Irish History, Ruler of Ossory, a territory extending over the whole country between the rivers Kore and Suir." [D'Alton's "King /amei's Irish Armp LitL 1689."] '^Mac-GiU Patrick now softened into Fits-patrick" [Lodge, vol u, p. 888. J (^) The preamble to the patent (wherein he is called " Bamardu^ Mae-QyUt' Pairidt, emniaer") is in '* lodge," (•) In the latter case called "Sir Barnaby Fitenatrick, Lo. of Upper Ossory," in the former *'Sir Bemaby Fits Patricke of Ireland," there bdng in Medcalle'i " jtnighU " a reference from one to the other. (4) Maigaret his only da. and h. ». aa first wife, her first cousin, James (Butler), second Baron Dunboyne [I.J. . .