Baron Upper Ossory

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Coat of arms of the Barons Upper Ossory

Baron Upper Ossory ( Irish Barún Osraí Uachtaraigh ) is a hereditary British title of nobility , which was awarded once in the Peerage of Ireland and in the Peerage of Great Britain .

Awards

In 1541, King Henry VIII of England was promoted to King of Ireland by the Parliament of Ireland . As a result, all monarchs and clan chiefs in Ireland were asked to give up their native titles in order to receive titles in the Peerage of Ireland. So also realized Barnaby Fitzpatrick ( Irish Brian Og Mac Giolla Phádraig ), the last heir of the Irish Small Kingdom Osraige (Engl. Ossory ), Henry suzerainty and ecclesiastical supremacy and was in return on June 11, 1541 to Baron Upper Ossory charged. His descendant, the 7th Baron, took the side of the House of Stuart during the Glorious Revolution in the War of the Two Kings and was ostracized by Parliament on May 11, 1691 for high treason and the title was revoked.

On August 9, 1794, King George II in the Peerage of Great Britain created the title Baron Upper Ossory , of Ampthill in the County of Bedford , for John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory . Already in 1758 he had inherited the titles of 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory and 3rd Barons Gowran from his father, belonging to the Peerage of Ireland, and from 1767 to 1794 he was Knight of the Shire for Bedfordshire in the British House of Commons . He left no legitimate sons, so that all three titles expired on his death on February 13, 1818.

List of Barons Upper Ossory

Barons Upper Ossory, first bestowal (1541)

Barons Upper Ossory, second bestowal (1794)

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