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450 TYRONE. for fresh treasonable practice*, he, w ith the Earl of Tyrconnell, &c.f*.1 fled from Ireland, 14 Sept. 1607. to France and th.nce to Rome Hi? was attainted hj act of pari, ft.] 23 Oct. 1614, whereby «" Aft houvutf became forfeited. He m. firstly ( — ) da. of Sir Brian Mac Pheliui O'Nkii.i., of Clamlcloyo. Her. by whom he had no issue, lie divorced i h ) He »i. secondly, before 1684. Joanna, dai of Hunh Mac M.inus O'IIonnki.l. She </. Jim. 1591. He m. thirdly, in 1591, at Drnmeondra, Mabel, Bixter of Sir Henry Rauknai, Marshal of the Queen's fores in Ireland, and da, of Sir Nicholas Bageim]. She it. s p. about 1598. He m. fourthly, (— ) da. of Sir Hugh Mauknms, of Iveagh. She accompanied him in his flight, and is said to have il. at Lonvain in 1607, but she (unless, indeed, the reference is to a fifth wife) is mentioned us a young.) Countess of Tyrone during the Kali's stay at Koine. He </. of intermittent fever, being then nearly blind CO July 1616, at Home, aged about 7d,C) and was bur., with rome pomp, in the church of San (Metro ili Montorio there, beside his eldest sou and (his fellow fugitive), the Km 1 of Tyrconnell, M.l.;°) His last wile survived him. [Hcon (O'Neill), Hai;on I iuxgaxxox [I.], 1st am] h, ftp., by Joanna, 2d wife, bring, as such h apparent, entitled to the aliovenained Barony under the terms of its creation in 1 .".12. His title as BARON OF I >< "Nl'A NN( IN 1 nr Dl'XtiANXON [I.] was confirmed 10 May 1587 at the Same time as his father'* title to the Earldom of Tyrone, s"' He ftpjx ars, about 160", to have been engaged to a da. of the Karl of Argyll [S.], pro! ably Archibald, 7th Kail, lie fled with his father. I I Sep. 1607, atol • num. v.p. :.t Rome, 2J Sep. 1609, in his 24th year, and was bur, in the church of Sau Pietro di Molitorio there. M.I (*) Me was together with his fatliel i attainted by act of Pari. [I.] 28 Oct. 161 1.) (a) The '• flight of the two Kai ls " was a great epoch in Irish history. A full account thereof is given by " the Rev. (J. 1'- Meehan, .M.K.I. A.," in his "' Kate nud fortunes of the Kails of Tyrone and Tyrcmnel " [1868], found. d on a contemporary [tW incomplete^ narrative thereof. Their lands were confiscated, ai d form the basis of the great Protestant settlem. nts of the London com] aides in I'istcr. At I ...m ain " Tyrone drew up that extraordinary catalogue of Ida grievance*, now [lSi>u| [.reserved in the Record Office, London, which must astonish anyone, who expects t'> lin.l in it any adequate explanation of his Bight' [Nat, /iiawr.J. ( h ) She sul sequently m. Niall Mac-Brian Fagharlxch O'Neill. ") That she was young (at all events w hen he mal rie.l her) appeals from Archbishop Lombard's description of her. "Tertiain [for the Archbishop ignore* the divorced wife] habet uxciein ex familia Magucsini urn. a-t.ate ipiidcm junior, m, sed education.. Dionbue, p> nii.Unti.i, pietate matniam." '1 his he write, when defending the Kail from the charge of having had three wins nt the mine tmt ; he. also, sels out their order tliter each other s death [Lombard's " l>c rnjnn liib ," p. o$:i J ( d ) " Two portraits of Tyrone — one in nnm.ur and the other made in his decrepi- tude at Home — belong, d in 11-66 to Mr. (J. de (ieruoii {Cat, 1st t'xhib. Kat. Fortntllf, Nos. y7f>, 378)" [A'ot. Biagr.]. A portrait of him in armour, wh. n apparently about CO. is engraved in Median's " Eari o) Tyrone" ; see note '"a," above. ( u ) The inscription (no longer existing) was "B.0.SI, Hie unic-cunt I'gonis, Piincipis O'Neill, ossa." It, and the much longer on.s in the same ihurcb to his eldest son " Hugoni, Baroni de Dongaiian," as also that to the Karl of Tyiconiiel (•' Kodercio, Principi O'lJonellio, C'oioiti Tirconalliic " are given in Median's " Kali <>/ Z'jrone" ; Bee note " a, above. (f) Jluucahnon seems to he a now obsolete way of spelling Dungannov. Hie place referred to is cleaily Dungaiinon, Co. Tyrone, and not Huncaniion, eo. Wexford, in the south of Ireland. (K) "Regrant and confirmation of the letters pat. 1 Oct. [1642, seep. -JHI, note "d"] l.y which the Earldom and Barony had been granted to the grandfather and father respectively of the present Karl and Barou. The Huvltiam regrant. d to the present Kail for life with limitation to Hugh (his eldest son) the present Baron and his issue male ; rem. to Henry (second s. of the said Karl and his issue maie. rem. to tlie issue male of the .-aid Kail and Johanna his pi .sent wife ; rem. to the issue male of the said Karl; rem. to Cormao (br. of the said Kail; mi. I his issue male. The Huron) was rtgiauted to Hugh (eldest son of the said Karl/ dining the life of his father, with limitation to the heir apparent to the Earldom" [" Creation!, 1483-1646," in ap. 47th Rep. D. K. Pub. Records],