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About LinkBacksOnce the earls split and went to Europe, is there any sign of them today? any descendants of them running around Europe still perhaps married into the kingship or nobility of the local european rulers of the time?
Once the earls split and went to Europe, is there any sign of them today? any descendants of them running around Europe still perhaps married into the kingship or nobility of the local european rulers of the time?
Yes, Dr Hugo Ricciardi O'Neill, the current O'Neill of Clandeboye*, also a descendant of King John I of Portugal. Don Leopoldo O'Donnell y Jorris, the Duke of Tetuan was also the Prime Minister of Spain (twice) in the 1800s.
*Would make an illustrious replacement for Cowen, eh?
"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"-Edmund Burke
Get some more details here: The Flight Of The Earls.Net - By Dr. John McCavitt FRHistS
McCavitt's book is good too.
"The thing that always annoyed me about traditional Irish historiography was the paradox of its Anglocentrism. People are now prepared, I think, to confront the possibility that many Irish problems are, in a sense, indigenous to the Irish situation." Roy Foster (1989).
Visted the burial site of Aodh O'Neill at San Pietro in Montorio, Rome a few years back.
His bones are in the vaults beneath and in an unknown location.
Well worth a visit
Interesting to note that the Spanish Embassy is right beside the Church & I think has been there since those times in one format or other!
Europa Conventus Delenda Est
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