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Persoonlijke gegevens William St LEGER 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1564 in Dublin, Ireland.

  Let op: Was ouder dan 65 jaar (73) toen kind (John St Leger) werd geboren (??-??-1637).

• Hij is gedoopt in het jaar 1564 in All Saints, Ulcombe, Kent.
• Titel: President of Munster
• Hij is overleden op 2 juli 1642 in Cork, County Cork, Ireland, hij was toen 78 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Warham St LEGER en Ursula NEVILLE

Gezin van William St LEGER

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Gertrude Leonardine de VRIES.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1617 te Holland, hij was toen 53 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. John St Leger  1637-1696 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Gertrude HAYWARD.

Zij zijn getrouwd na 1624.

Kind(eren):

1. Heyward St LEGER  ± 1630-1684 

Notities over William St LEGER

Son of Sir Warham St Leger and Ursula Neville
Wives: Gartwright de Vries, Gertrude Hayward
Issue: Elizabeth, William, John, Margaret and Heyward St Leger

Sir William St Leger (1586 - 2 July 1642) was an Anglo-Irish landowner, official and soldier active in Ireland.

He was a grandson of Anthony St Leger. He took part in the Flight of the Earls in 1607, when Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, and Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, together with more than ninety of their family and followers, the chief of the Gaelic and Catholic resistance in Ireland, fled to Europe. Sir William spent several years abroad.

Having received a pardon from King James I and extensive grants of land in Ireland, he was appointed President of Munster by Charles I in 1627. He warmly supported the arbitrary government of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, actively assisting in raising and drilling the Irish levies destined for the service of the king against the Parliament. He was a member of the Irish House of Commons from 1634, as MP for County Cork.

In the great Irish Rebellion of 1641 he bore the chief responsibility for dealing with the insurgents in Munster; but the forces and supplies placed at his disposal were utterly inadequate.

His reputation in the minds of Irish nationalist historians is that he executed martial law in his province with the greatest severity, hanging large numbers of rebels, often without much proof of guilt. In 1843 Daniel O'Connell quoted him as saying about the harsh policy adopted by the government in Dublin: "The undue promulgation of that severe determination to extirpate the Irish and papacy out of the kingdom, your Lordship rightly apprehends to be too unseasonably published" in a such sense that he approved of the policy of extirpation. O'Connell went on "This St. Leger was himself one of the chief extirpators". The quotation can also be read in another sense, in that St Leger's use of the words "undue", "severe" and "too unseasonably" point to his disapproval of such a policy. As a landowner, St Leger's Irish property would have been worthless without Irish labourers and tenant farmers to work on it.

In terms of geography, his reputation for cruelty in Munster (a whole province) is actually limited to a small area near Clonmel in early December 1641 where his force did kill several dozen people without due process, which led on to the killings in revenge of English or Protestant people in the same area. Whether St Leger ordered or approved of the murders by his force is still unproven. Why he would want to provoke such an uprising in Munster, where 90% of the population was Irish and Catholic, and where Protestants like him numbered less than 10%, is still unclear.

He was still struggling with the insurrection when he died at Cork in 1642. William had two wives during his life and 6 children. Sir William's daughter Margaret married Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin; his son John was father of Arthur St Leger, created Viscount Doneraile in 1703.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_St_Leger

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