Ancestral Trails 2016 » Richard Boyle (1566-1643)

Persoonlijke gegevens Richard Boyle 

• Hij is geboren op 13 oktober 1566 in Canterbury, Kent.
• Titel: 1st Earl of Cork
• Hij is overleden op 15 september 1643 in Youghal, County Cork, Ireland, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.

Gezin van Richard Boyle

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Catherine Fenton.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 25 juli 1603 te Dublin, Ireland, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Joan BOYLE  1611-1657 
2. Richard BOYLE  1612-???? 
3. Francis BOYLE  1623-1699
4. Sarah BOYLE  1609-1633 
5. Lettice BOYLE  1610-1657
6. Roger BOYLE  1621-1679 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Joan Apsley.

Zij zijn getrouwd op 6 november 1595 te Limerick, Ireland, hij was toen 29 jaar oud.

Notities over Richard Boyle

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork (13 October 1566 - 15 September 1643), also known as the Great Earl of Cork, was Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.

Boyle was an important figure in the continuing English colonisation of Ireland (commenced by the Normans) in the 16th and 17th centuries, as he acquired large tracts of land in plantations in Munster in southern Ireland. Moreover, his sons played an important role in fighting against Irish Catholic rebellion in the 1640s and '50s, assisting in the victory of the British and Protestant interest in Ireland.

Boyle was born at Canterbury on 3 October 1566, the second son of Roger Boyle (d. 24 March 1576 at Preston, near Faversham in Kent), a descendant of an ancient landed Herefordshire family, and of Joan (15 October 1529 -20 March 1586), daughter of John Naylor, who were married in Canterbury on 16 October 1564. Both are interred in an Alabaster tomb in the upper end of the Chancel of the parish church of Preston.

Young Boyle went to The King's School, Canterbury, at the same time as Christopher Marlowe. His university education began at Bennet (Corpus Christi) College, Cambridge, England, in 1583. After this he studied law at the Middle Temple in London and became a clerk to Sir Roger Manwood, Kt., who was then the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer.

Before completing his studies, Boyle decided "to gain learning, knowledge, and experience abroad in the world" and left London for a new start in Ireland. He arrived in Dublin on 23 June 1588[with just over £27 (£6,886 in 2015),as well as a gold bracelet worth £10 (£2,550 in 2015), and a diamond ring (given to him by his mother at her death and which he wore all his life), besides some fine clothing, and his "rapier and dagger".

In 1590 he obtained the appointment of deputy Escheator to John Crofton, the Escheator-General. On 6 November 1595, he married Joan Apsley, the daughter and co-heiress of William Apsley of Limerick, one of the council to the first President of the province of Munster. This marriage brought Boyle an estate of £500 a year (£95,425 in 2015), which he continued to receive until at least 1632.

Joan died at Mallow (County Cork) on 14 December 1599 during childbirth (the son was still-born). Both were buried in Buttevant church, county Cork.

It is said by his detractors that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, he took no trouble to have Joan commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his (in every sense) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical (in terms of securing his personal objectives) rather than sentimental (her connections being of no direct use to him after her death).

Boyle by this time had been the object of the attacks of Sir Henry Wallop, Treasurer at War, Sir Robert Gardiner, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, Sir Robert Dillon, Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas, and Sir Richard Bingham, Chief Commissioner of Connaught, a demonstration, said Boyle, of their envy of his success and increasing prosperity.

Boyle was arrested on charges of fraud and collusion with the Spanish (essentially accusations of covert papist infiltration, a treasonable offence for an official in Queen Elizabeth I's Protestant civil service) in his office. He was thrown into prison (at least once by Sir William FitzWilliam in about 1592) several times during this episode. He was about to leave for England to justify himself to Queen Elizabeth, when there was a rebellion in Munster in October 1598, and "all my lands were wasted" which once again returned him to poverty. The Nine Years War arrived in Munster with Irish rebels from Ulster, who were joined by locals who had lost land to English settlers. Boyle was forced to flee to Cork for safety.

This turn of events left him obliged to return to London and his chambers at The Temple. At this point he was almost immediately taken into the service of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.

Henry Wallop then renewed his prosecution of Boyle. Boyle was summoned to appear at the Court of Star Chamber. In the proceedings, Boyle's adversaries seem to have failed to substantiate their accusations. Boyle had somehow managed to secure the attendance of Queen Elizabeth I herself at the proceedings, and he successfully exposed some misconduct on the part of his adversaries.

Elizabeth famously said: "By God's death, these are but inventions against the young man" and she also said he was "a man fit to be employed by ourselves".

He was immediately appointed Clerk of the Council of Munster by Elizabeth I in 1600. In December 1601, Boyle brought to Elizabeth the news of the victory near Kinsale.

In October 1602, Boyle was again sent over by Sir George Carew, the president of Munster, on Irish affairs. He was knighted at St Mary's Abbey, near Dublin, by Carew on 25 July 1603. It was also on this day that he married his second wife, Catherine, daughter of Sir Jeffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State, and 1606 appointed as Privy Councillor for Munster and 1612 as Privy Councillor, in Ireland.

By his second wife, Catherine Fenton, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Fenton and his wife Alice Weston, the 1st Earl of Cork had the following issue:

Roger Boyle (1 August 1606, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland-10 October 1615, Deptford, Kent, England, where he was buried).
Lady Alice Boyle (1607-1667), married David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore, then after his death, married John Barry, of Liscarroll, co Cork, Ireland
Lady Sarah Boyle (1609-1633), married Sir Thomas Moore, then after his death married Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby
Lady Lettice Boyle (1610-1657), married Colonel George Goring, Lord Goring
Lady Joan Boyle (1611-1657), married George FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare ("the Fairy Earl")
Richard Boyle, 2nd Earl of Cork and 1st Earl of Burlington (1612-1698), Lord High Treasurer of Ireland (1660-1695).
Lady Katherine Boyle (1615-1691), married Arthur Jones, 2nd Viscount Ranelagh
Hon. Geoffrey Boyle
Lady Dorothy Boyle, married Sir Arthur Loftus of Rathfarnham and was the mother of Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne
Lewis Boyle, 1st Viscount Boyle of Kinalmeaky (1619-1642), succeeded under special remainder by his older brother Richard
Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (1621-1679)
Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon
Lady Mary Boyle, married Charles Rich, 4th Earl of Warwick
Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-1691), author of The Sceptical Chymist; considered to be the father of modern chemistry
Lady Margaret Boyle

Boyle erected an elaborate monument to himself, his wives, his mother and children in The Collegiate Church of St Mary Youghal, County Cork and there is a similar but much larger Boyle monument in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Boyle,_1st_Earl_of_Cork

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