O'Rourke (noble family)

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O'Rourke ( Irish Ó Ruairc or Ua Ruairc ) is the family name of an Irish noble family that descends from the Irish nobility . Some family members first emigrated to France and Scotland and later emigrated to the Baltic region. The Baltic count family then spread to Poland , Russia and Estonia and was mainly in the service of the Imperial Russian Army .

history

The genealogical history of the O'Rourke tribe goes back to an ancient Irish family . The forefather is led by the first Christian king (clan chief) Brian von Connaught in the 5th century. Brian is in turn a descendant in the 51st generation of the Iberian king Miled , to whom all noble families of Ireland refer. A descendant of the clan chief Brian in the 17th generation was Ruarc or Ruadharc, a name that comes from the North Germanic Hrothrekr ("famous ruler", modern form Roderich ), Prince of West Breifne , in northwestern Connaught. O'Rourke is an Anglicization of the Irish Ó Ruairc and means "grandson / descendant of Ruarc". The descendants named themselves O'Rourke after him, in different spellings. A grandson of this Ruarks named Feargal became King of Connaught († 967). His descendant was Tiernan O'Rourke , Prince of West Breifne, who went down in Irish history for his feud with Diarmuid Mac Murchadha Caomhánach , King of Leinster .

He was followed as kings of Breifne: Aedh (1014), Art oirdnidhe (1046), Niall (1047), Ualgard (1085), Tighernán, Domnall (1102), Fergal (1157), Domnall (1207), Art (1210), Amlaib (1258), Domnall carrach (1311), Ualgard mór (1346), Tighernán mór (1418). Tiernan's son Tadhg (1435) was the last independent prince of West Breifne, his successors Eóghan (1528), Brian ballach mór (1562) and Brian na Múrtha (O'Rourke of Dromahair) (1591) called themselves Lords of West Breifne.

The O'Rourke family was divided into the following clans between the 13th and 16th centuries: MacTiernan of Corradh, O'Rourke of Carrha, O'Rourke of Dromahair, O'Rourke of Cloncorick, MacLochlainn, MacMuiredaigh, MacTigernain na Buanaide, MacMail Sechlainn na Crannoige, MacNeill and Mac Cahal Reagh on. In 1458 the Clan O'Rourke of Colncorick was founded by Eogan MacLochlainn Ó Ruairc. Several of these clan members left Ireland in the armed conflict between Ireland and England in the 16th century, they moved to Scotland and France. When the English King James II went into exile in France in 1688 , clan members of the O'Rourke also moved with him, including Sir Brian O'Rourke and his son Owen O'Rourke of Cloncorick, who became a baron in Ireland in 1727 and in 1731 had been appointed Viscount of Breffney. His sons John († 1786 in London) and Cornelius (* 1736; † 1800 in Dorpat ), then switched from the French side to the Scottish service in 1760. Count John took his leave as Scottish captain in 1762 , was later chamberlain to the King of Poland and died in London in 1786. His brother Cornelius continued his military career in the Imperial Russian Army and died in 1800 as major general and commander of Dorpat in Livonia . Two of his sons became the founders of the Livonian (Evangelical Lutheran Churches | ev.-luth.) And Polish ( rk ) line. The Livonian line is led by Georg Moritz Graf O'Rourke (1770-1818) and the Polish line by Joseph Graf O'Rourke (1772-1849). The seven sons of Count Georg Moritz were enrolled in the Livonian knighthood under registration number 343 in 1818 and received the Livonian indigenous community .

With the ukase of the Heraldiedepartements dated April 1, 1847 and the imperial report of November 24, 1848, confirmed by the highest authority, the title of Count of O'Rouke was used and recognized in Russia .

Emigrants in the United States

Between 1820 and 1860 , Maurice O'Rourke (* 1830), James O'Rouke (* 1822), Dennis O'Rouke (* 1820), Lawrence O'Rourke (* 1800), Michael O'Rourke ( * 1814), William O'Rourke (* 1798), James Owen Rourk (* 1815), John E. Rourk (* 1840), John O'Rourke (* 1801) and Michael O'Rourk (* 1799) to the United United States of America .

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The Irish ancestors

Family table O'Rourke

Owen Earl (Graf) O'Rourke (* around 1600)

  • Earl Shane Oge O'Rourke (* around 1620; † in Cloncorick, County Leitrim , Ireland)
    • Earl Brian MacShane Og O'Rourke (* around 1680)
      • Earl Owen O'Rourke of Cloncorick (* around 1670, † 1728)
        • Earl John O'Rourke (* 1735 in Breiffny; † 1786 in London), Scottish captain of the guard in France, 1760 Russian cavalry major, Polish chamberlain
          • Cornelius Earl O'Rourke (* 1736 in Leitrim, Ireland, † 1800 in Dorpat, Livonia), in Russian service in 1760, major general, commandant of Dorpat
            • Georg Moritz Graf O'Rourke (Livonian Line)
            • Joseph Count O'Rourke (Polish Line)

Livonian line

Georg Moritz Graf O'Rourke (also: "Earl George O'Rourke"; 1770 - 1818), major in the Imperial Russian Army, pledge holder of Wiera and Perrist ⚭ Juliana Johanna von Grünewaldt (1778–1808), he and his seven Sons are enrolled in the Livonian Knighthood

  • Cornelius Johann Moritz Graf O'Rourke (* 1796 in Puka ; † 1878 in Dorpat), captain of the guard in the Imperial Russian Army ⚭ Dorothea Freiin von Bühler (1796 - 1880)
    • Eugen Karl Ludwig Graf O'Rourke ( Russian : Евгений Корнильевич гр. О'Рурк; * 1823 in Affel, † 1904 in Dorpat), major general in the Imperial Russian Army
    • Richard Johann Wilhelm Graf O'Rourke (Ричард Корнильевич гр. О'Рурк; * 1827 in Mekshof; 1889 in Dorpat), captain of staff in the Imperial Russian Army
    • Rudolph Friedrich Bernhard Graf O'Rourke (Рудольф Корнильевич гр. О'Рурк; * 1830 in Affel, † 1885 in Dorpat), major general in the Imperial Russian Army
  • Woldemar Georg Reinhold Graf O'Rourke (* 1797 in Enge; † 1857 in Dubno , Ukraine ), major general in the Imperial Russian Army ⚭ Flora Gostyńska z Gostynek (* around 1800)
  • Ludwig Leopold Joachim Graf O'Rourke (* 1799 in Uddafer, † 1835 in Odessa ), colonel in the Russian
  • Georg Magnus Theodor Graf O'Rourke (* 1801 in Enge; † in Saint Petersburg), page at the Russian Tsar's court
  • Moritz Dietrich Graf O'Rourke (Маврикий Егорович гр О'Рурк;. * 1804 in Kähri, ( Municipality Puka ), Livonia, † 1878 in Poltava, Ukraine), county marshal , Lieutenant Colonel in the Imperial Russian Army ⚭ Aleksandra Anna Rateeva (1812 - 1851)
    • Waldemar Graf O'Rouke (* 1832; † 1917 in Mirgorod), member of the Russian State Council
    • Nikolai Moritsewitsch Count O'Rourke (Николай Морицевич граф О'Рурк; * 1834; † 1916 in Kiev ), Russian officer ⚭ 1) Sofia Ghika (1841–1864) 2) Katarina ( 1850–1905 ); 2 sons
    • Hippolit Graf O'Rourke (* 1838; † 1918 in Charkiw ), major general in the Imperial Russian Army ⚭ Sofia Popov (1844 - 1928)
  • Karl Gustav Graf O'Rourke (* 1805 in Wiera), Russian cornet
  • Otto Gustav Gotthard Graf O'Rourke (* 1811 in Perrist; † around 1832), Russian cadet

The Polish line

Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke (* 1772 in Dorpat, Livonia, † 1849 in Minsk), general of the cavalry

  • Alexander Patrik Felician Cornelius Theophil O'Rourke (* 1821 in Wsielub, † 1886 in Wsielub), Russian cavalry master
    • Karl Marian Alexander O'Rourke (also: "O'Rourke of Cloncorrick"; * 1861 in Wsielub, † 1946 in Warsaw ), Papal Chamberlain
  • Patrik Anton O'Rourke (1823-1891), Russian lieutenant
    • Evarist O'Rourke (* 1864 in Mirgorod; † 1918 murdered)
  • Michael Lazarus O'Rourke (* 1824 in Wsielub; † 1894 in Basin ( Masovia ), Poland), Russian lieutenant zS
  • Nikolaus Stephan O'Rourke (1825-1874)

coat of arms

The O'Rourke coat of arms history points to several coats of arms:

  • O'Rourke family coat of arms

  • Family coat of arms in the Livonian Knighthood Handbook

  • Episcopal coat of arms

  • Count's coat of arms in the Baltic heraldic book

  • Flag of Connaught

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a golden shield with two black lions arranged one above the other .

Another variant is a gold shield with two black lions on top of each other. The crest shows a crown from which an armored arm with a dagger emerges. The helmet cover is red and silver, above it as a war cry “Buagh” (for “Victory” = “victory”), at the foot of the shield the motto “serviendo guberno” ( English : I rule by serving; German : I rule by serving).

Count's coat of arms

  1. This coat of arms is also described in the “Ermerin noblesse titrée”: a silver shield split and split at the back, three golden lions on top of each other in front, a left- facing lamb with a red flag at the top, a leaping red boar at the bottom . The crest consists of a count's crown and an armored arm with gold fluted sabers . The helmet cover is golden and under the shield the motto : Victoriosus - victorieux! ("Victorious"). This coat of arms, designated as unheraldic, was also registered with the Livonian knighthood in 1818 and is kept in their knight's house .
  2. In Siebmacher's coat of arms book of 1898, the count's coat of arms from 1771 is emblazoned : shield split from gold and silver. In front three black lions cross one another, in the back a natural-colored lamb resting on the top left, a two-pronged red flag on the golden ball stick with the inscription: buadh holding diagonally right with the front paw, below, striding to the right, a natural-colored boar. Helmet (crowned with a seven-pearl crown) growing a saber-swinging bare forearm. Covers red gold and black silver. Motto: Victoriosus Victorieux in black lapidary writing on a silver ribbon.

Episcopal coat of arms

The coat of arms in church heraldry, which is common for bishops, is provided with a green hat and 20 tassels that stand above the coat of arms. In this case, the Bishop of Riga wore the O'Rourke family coat of arms with church symbols.

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ O'Rourke Family History. O'Rourke Surname . In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed May 29, 2019
  2. ^ Irish Kings and High Kings, Francis John Byrne, Third Revised Edition, Four Courts Press, Dublin 2001. ISBN 978-1-85182-196-9 .
  3. ^ Kingdom of West Breifne: Ua Ruairc of Bréifne - Kingdom and Rivalry . In: freepages.rootsweb.com
  4. ↑ Chart of the Ó Ruairc Kings of Bréifne . In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed May 29, 2019
  5. ↑ Descent from Ruarc . In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed May 29, 2019
  6. ↑ Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf from: Genealogisches Handbuch der Livländischen Ritterschaft , Bd .: 1, Görlitz, [1929], p. 638, family table. Digitization of the Munich Digitization Center , Bavarian State Library
  7. ^ New organization of the department of the heraldry according to the imperial ukases of February 4th and 24th, 1803. In: Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, Volume 17, Verlag d. Industrie-Comptoirs, 1805, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized Jan. 2, 2012, p. 462, accessed on May 28, 2019
  8. ↑ Compare to this: O'Rourke / Rourke Family Trees . In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed on 16. June 2019
  9. ^ O'Rourke Family, Genealogy and History . In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed May 29, 2019
  10. ↑ Hof Affel : Today the farm and the village are called Ahula. From 1859 to 1885 the von Grünenwaldt family owned von Affel
  11. ^ Count O'Rourke Irish nobility, count title allegedly French, In: Klingspor, Carl Arvid : Baltisches Wappenbuch , Stockholm 1882. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center , Bavarian State Library
  12. ^ O'Rorke / O'Rourke Coat of Arms (coat of arms of the O'Rourke with 9 other variants). In: freepages.rootsweb.com , accessed May 29, 2019
  13. ↑ The O'Rourke of Deffeier - The crest of the O'Rourke . In: orourkerundle.com , accessed May 31, 2019
  14. ↑ Ermerin, Dr. RJ: La noblesse titrée de l'empire de Russie avec la describtion de ses armoiries d'aprés les documents officiels . Size 4 °. (V, 179 and VII S.) Sorau, E. Zeidler
  15. ↑ In the coat of arms you can see part (armored arm) from the flag of the province of Connaught
  16. ↑ The origin of this unheraldic coat of arms cannot be determined with certainty. In general, only the previously emblazoned family coat of arms is recognized. Compare Transehe-Roseneck, Astaf from : Genealogisches Handbuch der Livländischen Ritterschaft , Bd .: 1, Görlitz, [1929], p. 639, footnote 24. Digitization of the Munich digitization center , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek