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Sir Hugh O'Donnell

Sir Hugh O'Donnell

Irish Gaelic lord (c. 1540 – c. 1600)


Sir Hugh McManus O'Donnell (Irish: Sir Aodh mac Maghnusa Ó Domhnaill; c.1540 - c.1600)[1] was an Irish Gaelic lord. He was The O'Donnell of his clan, and king of Tyrconnell in Tudor-era Ireland.

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Biography

Hugh O'Donnell was married to Iníon Dubh.[1] In the 1580s, a violent succession dispute broke out amongst the O'Donnell family over who would succeed him. He abdicated in favour of his eldest son by his second wife, Hugh Roe O'Donnell,[1] in 1592. He lived in retirement until his death in 1600, by which time Tyrone's Rebellion was in full flight.

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Notes

  1. Burke 1866, p. 409.

References

  • Burke, Sir Bernard (1866), A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, Harrison, pp. 409–410

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