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Sir William Warren (c.1558-1602) was an Irish landowner, statesman and soldier of the late sixteenth century. He is mainly remembered now for having arranged the marriage of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Mabel Bagenal. ==Family== He was the son of Captain Humphrey Warren (died 1561) and Elizabeth Clifford (died 1581). His father, a professional soldier, had come to Ireland in the service of the English Crown about 1550 and retained the confidence of three successive monarchs. He was a close associate of Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1556-1558, and he sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Carrickfergus in the Parliament of 1559. His marriage was a most advantageous one since Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of a Kentish gentleman, Nicholas Clifford of Holme, was the widow of Sir William Brabazon, the Vice-Treasurer of Ireland, and of Christopher Blount, a cousin of Baron Mountjoy. After Humphrey's death she made a fourth marriage to Sir John Moore. William was thus born into the heart of the Anglo-Irish nobility: he was a half-brother of Edward Brabazon, 1st Baron Ardee, and of Garret Moore, 1st Viscount Moore. William and his brother Henry continued the pattern of advantageous marriages: Henry married Alice Loftus, daughter of Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, and William, sometime after 1586, married Jenet Finglas, widow of John Bathe, Chancellor of the Irish Exchequer. Through this marriage he acquired for his lifetime possession of very substantial lands in County Dublin, and of Drumcondra Castle. His wife's open adherence to the Roman Catholic faith caused him some trouble politically : at a time when Irish office holders were required to take the Oath of Supremacy, recognising Elizabeth I as head of the Church of Ireland, Warren was suspected, probably with good reason, of sharing his wife's religious beliefs. Of her first husband's children, two became Catholic priests, which inevitably raised questions about the nature of the religious upbringing they had received at home. 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「Sir William Warren (died 1602)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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