O'Donell from Tyrconell
The Counts O'Donell von Tyrconell (spelling according to Gothaisches Taschenbuch, also: O'Donnell von Tyrconell , O'Donnell of Tyrconnell ) are a very old, originally Irish, then Spanish, French and Austrian noble family .
history
The family derives their ancestry from royal milesisches ( royal milesian ) blood and their subsequent descent from the common progenitor of the O'Neills, the Earls of Tyrone , originally kings of Ulster and the O'Melaghans, kings of Meath .
The safe tribe series begins with Hugh Oge alias Hugh Duffe, Chief of Tyrconnell, († July 5, 1537). His son Manus O'Donnell was married three times: the first woman gave birth to sons Calvagh and Hugh. With the second wife, daughter of Shane O'Neill, Lord of Enniskillen, he had a son, Manus-Oge. Eventually he married Joan, sister of Con Baccagh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, with whom he fathered Sir Hugh.
His two sons with Mary, daughter of the Lord of the Islands James MacDonald, continued the main line from which the Spanish, French and German branches of the family are derived. King James I raised Roderich (Rory) von O'Donnell, First Count of Tyrconnell, from the family of the O'Donnells, lords of the castle of Dungall and dynasts of Tyrconell, on September 29, 1603 (according to other sources February 10, 1604) in the counts. This happened shortly before the annexation of Ireland by Great Britain. Political and ecclesiastical circumstances forced Roderich († 1608) and his older brother Hugo (Hugh) O'Neill Count von Tyrone to emigrate to other Catholic countries, where they set off with a ship from Rathmullan . This practically marked the end of Gaelic Ireland and the Irish clans.
Hugo was born by King Philip III. received with honor and kindly received by Pope Paul V. Since that time the descendants have devoted themselves to the service of the Spanish line of Austria, and since the beginning of the 18th century also to that of the k. u. k. Austrian monarchy and gained high fame, in Spain as politicians, in Austria above all as high officers. The above-mentioned English counts were recognized for the family by Emperor Franz I on November 11, 1763 in Austria. All Austrian family members only had an n in their name.
After that, the family formed two lines.
The first branch was descended from Count Moritz O'Donnel (1780–1843). The son of the President of the Court Chamber, the Ministerial-Banco-Deputation, the Finance and Commerzhofstelle and later Finance Minister Count Franz Joseph, was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and Lieutenant Field Marshal , who met Christine on November 6, 1811 (born January 4, 1788), daughter of Prince Carl de Ligne .
Maximilian (1812–1895), eldest son of the above, received from Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria on July 28, 1853 the herbländisch-Austrian count status in Vienna , whereby the hereditary coat of arms in “reward of courageous and self-sacrificing defense against the assassination unforgettable merit acquired on His Majesty's holy person “a special Sign of the Most High Mercy (see description of the coat of arms) was added, namely the right half of the shield of the coat of arms shown above. Everything else belonged to the family coat of arms of the Count O'Donnell von Tyrconell, and it is thus the original coat of arms of the Count's house.
The second line was founded by Heinrich, the brother of Count Moritz (1780–1843) kk Privy Councilor and Minister of Finance, married to Countess Josephine von Gaisruck (1779–1833), an admirer of Johann Wolfgang von Goethes . Heinrich, whose son (born June 12, 1802 in Vienna; † December 22, 1872 ibid) was Imperial Chamberlain from 1841 Councilor of the Gubernium of Trieste and until 1848 Vice-President of the Lombard Gubernium in Milan .
A branch of the family continued to flourish in England too . This is what Burke names Neale O'Donnell, who received the baroness of Ireland on December 2, 1780, up to the fourth holder of the same, Sir Richard-Annesley O'Donnell, of Newport House, co. Mayo.
Personalities
- Don Carlos Manuel O'Donnell y Álvarez de Abreu, Second Duke of Tetuan (born June 1, 1834 in Valencia , † February 9, 1903 in Madrid ), son of Leopoldo, was a Spanish statesman who was foreign minister four times (at that time this post was called still minister of state in Spain) and supreme majordomo of King Amadeo I.
- Franz Joseph Count O'Donell von Tyrconell (1756-1810) was President of the Court Chamber, the Ministerial-Banco-Deputation and the Finance and Commerce Court Office and Minister of Finance
- Heinrich Graf O'Donell von Tyrconell (* 1726 in Cassalbor (Ireland), † August 4, 1789 in Galicia) was Imperial and Royal Major General and holder of the Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order
- Count Heinrich O'Donell von Tyrconell (born June 12, 1802 in Vienna; † December 22, 1872 ibid), grandson of Franz Joseph, was Imperial and Royal Chamberlain from 1841 Councilor of the Gubernium of Trieste and until 1848 Vice-President of the Lombard Gubernium in Milan .
- Jean Louis Barthelemy Comte O'Donnell (1783-1836) was a member of the Napoleonic Council of State and the Legion of Honor.
- Karl O'Donell von Tyrconell (1715–1771) was the Imperial and Royal General of the Cavalry.
- Leopoldo O'Donnell , First Duke of Tetuan (born January 12, 1809, † November 5, 1867) was a Spanish general and then Spanish Prime Minister.
- Maximilian O'Donell von Tyrconell (1812–1895) was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and Lieutenant Field Marshal .
- Moritz Graf O'Donell von Tyrconell (March 19, 1780 - December 1, 1843), son of Franz Joseph, was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and Lieutenant Field Marshal , who met Christine on November 6, 1811 (born January 4, 1788), daughter of Prince Carl de Ligne .
- Moritz Karl Johann Count O'Donell von Tyrconell (born June 6, 1815 in Prague ; † November 25, 1890 in Salzburg), was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain, first married to Helene von Cantacuzino, the descendant of a former Prince of the Moldau (1819– 1845), second with Clotilde Gabriele Countess of Hardegg (* 1830).
coat of arms
1853: “A shield divided along its length. The right golden field contains the Austrian, black, golden-armored double-headed eagle with knocked out red tongues, a golden bow-shaped crown on each head and an imperial crown floating above it. The eagle carries, as our house coat of arms, a breast shield, which is red and crossed with a silver crossbar, on which the imperial name FJ appears in golden lapidary letters. The left field, diagonally quartered in gold and red, shows a high red cross, which is held with bare hands at the point of the heart by an arm clad in gold cloth, which emerges from the shielding. On the shield rests the count's crown, above which a tournament helmet equipped with gold brackets and a gold helmet tassel, which on the right are black and on the left is red, all underlaid with gold, is placed in the sights. The helmet is adorned with a golden crown of leaves, from which two arms, bent over one another and crossed over one another, each in a gold-rimmed armor and with bare hand, emerge, of which the hand stretched out on the right has a red heart, and the one on the left a bright, upward one holding his middle flaming short sword by the golden hilt. Under the shield is the motto: In hoc signo vinces in golden lapidary letters on a red ribbon, on which the shield holder, namely on the right a golden lion with a knocked out red tongue looking forward, and on the left a black bull looking back, feet. "(Original text)
With regard to the right half of the shield, the diploma states the following: “But so that the exalted one may also partake of a permanent, hereditary characteristic of our just recognition, we find that his inherited family coat of arms with a special sign of Our kk grace should be augmented and furnished in such a way that through Ours appear herein the signature of Our Own Person; by the coat of arms of the Austrian ore house of our most illustrious house; finally, through the double-headed eagle, which our kingdom has rendered to the immortal memory of the self-sacrificing service rendered by him, is sensualized. "(transcript literally after the diploma)
literature
- Esq. John Bernard Burke: A genealogical and heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire , Colburn and Co. Publishers, London 1852.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 3rd volume A – Z, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854.
- Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses 30th year, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1857.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : O'Donnell, the counts, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 21st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, pp. 2–4 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Esq. John Bernard Burke: A genealogical and heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire , Colburn and Co. Publishers, London 1852, p. 537
- ^ Fionn Davenport: Lonely Planet - Ireland , German edition, MairDumont publishing house, Stuttgart 2010, p. 532, ISBN 3-8297-1665-6
- ↑ a b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , 3rd volume AZ, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1854, p. 283 ff
- ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , 42nd part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1870, p. 1f
- ^ A. Cornaro: O'Donell von Tyrconell, Heinrich Lamoral Gf. (1802–1872), administrator. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 205 f. (Direct links on p. 205 , p. 206 ).
- ↑ Gothaisches Genealogischen Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser 30. Volume, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1857, p. 552f