44 Facts About O'Neill dynasty

O'Neill dynasty are a lineage of Irish Gaelic origin, that held prominent positions and titles in Ireland and elsewhere.

From 1232 until 1616, the O'Neill dynasty were sovereign kings of Tir Eogain, holding territories in the north of Ireland in the province of Ulster; particularly around modern County Tyrone, County Londonderry and County Antrim, in what is Northern Ireland.

O'Neill dynasty met the leading Irish kings and received the pledge of fealty from them.

The submission of Conn O'Neill dynasty led to a 50-year civil war within Ulster that eventually led to downfall of O'Neill dynasty power in 1607 with the departure of the third earl for Rome and exile.

O'Neill dynasty did not share the moderate relationship with the English that his father had cultivated.

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O'Neill dynasty was almost always at war with the Lord Lieutenant in Dublin.

Title The O'Neill dynasty Mor was not a patrilineal hereditary one, but was conferred on the man elected and inaugurated to rule Tir Eoghain.

O'Neill dynasty was the son of Art O'Neill, a younger brother of Hugh O'Neill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone.

O'Neill dynasty grew up in the Spanish Netherlands and spent 40 years serving in the Irish regiment of the Spanish Army, mainly in the Eighty Years' War against the Dutch Republic in Flanders, notably at the siege of Arras, where he commanded the Spanish garrison.

O'Neill dynasty was, like many Gaelic Irish officers in the Spanish service, hostile to the English Protestant invasion of Ireland.

O'Neill dynasty returned to Ireland during the Irish Rebellion of 1641 to command the Irish Ulster Army during the Irish Confederate Wars.

O'Neill dynasty was reportedly poisoned by Cromwell's supporters and died in 1649.

O'Neill dynasty had come to an arrangement with the Norman Earls of Ulster which allowed his sons, particularly Brian, to consolidate O'Neill power within The North at the expense of the O'Donnells.

The lineage he established remained senior among the O'Neill dynasty's, becoming semi-independent with a distinct territory.

Issue of Sir Henry O'Neill dynasty, who had been granted the Edenduffcarrick estate and majority of the Clandeboye lands by conforming to English ways and converting to Anglicanism, died out in 1855.

Charles Henry O'Neill dynasty had his first and only child, a daughter named Elizabeth Catherine Theresa Mary O'Neill dynasty, in 1845, during the Great Hunger, and had no further issue.

O'Neill dynasty was a cavalry officer who took part in many battles with the heroic Irish Brigade of the French Army.

O'Neill dynasty's son Conn O'Neill was an officer who spent his life in exile in France and married to Cecilia O'Hanlon.

O'Neill dynasty left France with his brothers and established their noble line permanently under in the Kingdom of Portugal.

O'Neill dynasty was the titular head of the Clanaboy O'Neill dynasty, whose family have been in Portugal ever since.

O'Neill dynasty then recognized him as the Representative of the House of O'Neill and as the Representative of the Earldom created in 1542 for his kinsman Conn Baccagh O'Neill.

Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill dynasty is recognised by the offices of arms throughout Europe as titular "Prince and Count of Clanaboy".

O'Neill dynasty uses the title and style of "The O'Neill of Clanaboy".

The present day title of Baron O'Neill dynasty of Shane's Castle is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

Lord O'Neill dynasty was the patrilineal great-great-great-grandson of John Chichester, younger brother of Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall.

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O'Neill dynasty sat as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Antrim.

Arthur O'Neill dynasty, represented Antrim Mid in the House of Commons as a Conservative from 1910 until 1914, when he was killed in action during the First World War, the first MP to die in the conflict.

O'Neill dynasty was killed in action in Italy during the Second World War where he served as a Battalion Commander of the North Irish Horse regiment.

O'Neill dynasty was Lord Lieutenant of Antrim from 1994 to 2008 for which he was knighted in 2014.

O'Neill dynasty was a major-general in the American Colonial Army and fought the French at Niagara, New York in French-Indian War.

O'Neill dynasty descended from Aodh Buidhe O'Neill, brother of Sir Henry O'Neill.

O'Neill dynasty's grandfather moved from Spain and he is descended from Lt.

Contrary claim to the leadership of the dynasty comes from Spanish nobleman Don Carlos O'Neill, 12th Marquis de la Granja, who has been described as "the Prince of the Fews".

O'Neill dynasty joined the Spanish army in 1752 and was known by the name Don Arturo O'Neill de Tyrone.

Don Arturo O'Neill dynasty y O'Keefe was born in March 1782 on St Croix and married Joanna Chabert Heyliger there in April 1802.

O'Neill dynasty died on 7 September 1832 and is reportedly buried in the Roman Catholic Church of Frederiksted, Saint Croix.

O'Neill dynasty became a General in the Spanish army and won distinctions during the Peninsular War fighting the French.

O'Neill dynasty married Manuela de Castilla Quevedo, the daughter of a Spanish noble family, in 1819.

Hugh was elected as their chief, and that O'Neill dynasty branch has since forth taken on the "MacShane" surname as an honorific for their loyalty to Shane O'Neill dynasty and to his battling sons.

Hugh McShane O'Neill dynasty reigned as chief until 1622 and his sons and grandsons served as the chieftains of the family and were active in the wars and politics of Ulster, Ireland, and Spain for the next two centuries.

The eventual heir, Owen McHugh O'Neill dynasty, completely dropped any association with the O'Neill dynasty name, and just took McShane as a surname due to the Irish Penal Laws, in an attempt to hold his father's small estate.

O'Neill dynasty's father had been born a McShane but translated his name, allowing his son to succeed to his uncles properties.

Family documents that the O'Neill dynasty's had elements land on the Islands and were associated with the families of Rocco, Eammon, Constatino or Conn Eoghan, Edmundo, and Gill – all men who served in the Ultonia and Hibernia regiments for the Crown of Spain.

Two O'Neill dynasty officers served in the Spanish Army forces of Bernardo de Galvez fighting the English in Florida and Alabama during the American Revolution.