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Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (ca. 1660 – 21 August 1693) was an Irish Jacobite and soldier, belonging to an Anglo-Norman family long settled in Ireland. Sarsfield gained his first military experience serving with an Anglo-Irish contingent of the French Army during the 1670s. When James II came to the throne he was commissioned in the English Army, and served during the suppression of Monmouth's Rebellion in 1685. During the Glorious Revolution of 1688 he remained loyal to James and led an English cavalry detachment at the Battle of Wincanton, the only military engagement of the campaign. In 1689 Sarsfield accompanied James to Ireland and served in the Jacobite Irish Army. After an early setback at Sligo, he became one of the celebrated Jacobite leaders of the war, noted in particular for Sarsfield's Raid shortly before the Siege of Limerick in 1690. James rewarded him by making him an Earl in the Peerage of Ireland. After the war's end following a second siege of Limerick in 1691, he led the Flight of the Wild Geese which took thousands of Irish soldiers into exile in France where they continued to serve James. After a planned invasion of England had to be abandoned following a French naval defeat in 1692, he served in Flanders and was killed at the Battle of Landen in 1693. ==Background== Sarsfield was born in Lucan c. 1660. His father was Patrick Sarsfield. His mother was Anne O'More, daughter of Rory (Roger) O'Moore, who organised the Irish Rebellion of 1641, and niece of Rory Óg O'More. The extended family of the powerful family of O'Mores, an estimated 120 people, had been virtually wiped out by the English during the Massacre of Mullaghmast. His paternal family were Roman Catholics of Norman origin (by this time the origin was known as "Old English") and possessed an estate with an income of £2,000 a year. His father had been implicated in the 1641 Rebellion, supported the Irish Confederacy during the subsequent war, and assisted the Anglo-Irish Royalist forces against the English Republicans during the Siege of Dublin (1649). Following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland Patrick Sarsfield senior had his Leinster estates confiscated and was transplanted to Connacht where he was given a smaller estate. Some sources suggest that his son Patrick was born while the family was in the west of Ireland. Following the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, the Sarsfields made attempts to recover their lost estates but the Court of Claims found them guilty of taking part in the initial rebellion. The family's fortunes were boosted by the marriage of Patrick's elder brother William Sarsfield to Mary Crofts, widely believed to be an illegitimate daughter of King Charles and a Welsh mother Lucy Walter, and the younger sister of James Scott, Duke of Monmouth. The King now intervened on the Sarsfield's behalf and agreed a compromise in which Lucan Manor would be restored to the Sarsfield family following the death of its current occupant Colonel Theophilus Jones. Following the death of his nephew Charles Sarsfield, Patrick advanced his own claim to Lucan Manor with the legal assistance of his cousin Francis Sarsfield. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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