Dermod O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin

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Died 2 December 1624
Parents Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin Children Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin Grandchild William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin Grandparent Murrough McDermot O'Brien, 3rd Baron Inchiquin People also search for Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin

Dermod McMurrough O'Brien, 5th Baron Inchiquin (October 1594 – 29 December 1624) was an Irish baron.

Biography

Dermod, who was born in October 1594, was the son of Murrough O'Brien, 4th Baron Inchiquin and his wife Mabel, daughter of Christopher Nugent, 5th Baron Delvin.

Family

Dermod O'Brien married Ellen, eldest daughter of Sir Edmund FitzJohn FitzGerald of Cloyne and Ballymaloe House in County Cork, from that powerful Hiberno-Norman family. They had three sons, and several daughters:

Murrough, 6th Baron Inchiquin, their eldest son, became the first Earl of Inchiquin.

Henry (d. 1645), a lieutenant colonel in the army of King Charles I. He never married.

Christopher (died 1664), a lieutenant-colonel in the Irish Confederate Army, who was created "Baron of Inchiquin," by the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation. He never married.

Honora, who married Anthony Stoughton of Rattoo, County Kerry.

Mary, married Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, and Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and had with him a daughter, Eleanor (who became the wife of the William Hill of Hillsborough, M.P., and mother to Michael Hill (1672–1699) M.P.) through whom Lord Inchiquin became an ancestor of Elizabeth II.

Ann, died unmarried

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