Daniel O\' Mahony

Daniel O' Mahony , count de Mahony, is an Irish officer jacobite, general Lieutenant with the service of king de France then of king d' Espagne who created it count de Castille and a commandery of Saint-Jacob gave to him, military order of which it was large cross. It is deceased in January 1714 with Ocaña (Spain).

the life of the count de Mahony is like a sequence of dangerous combat, bold attacks, honourable retirements; it could be prevailed of the advantage of being left the one of the most former families of Ireland, but it wanted to make considerable by its personal merit (Bellerive - history of the campaigns of the duke of Vendôme - p235)

In Ireland

Daniel O' Mahony is resulting from an Irish noble family of the kingdom of Dermond. At the time of the Glorious Revolution in 1688, it remains faithful to the catholic king Jacques II. His/her brother, Dermod, as colonel, was distinguished with the battles from Boyne, Aughrim and Limerick (where some say that it was killed). One of its sons, Jeremy, which one announced in Holland, was lieutenant-colonel ordering the Régiment of Limerick of which to sir John FitzGerald was colonel owner. Daniel, having reached the row of Captain in Royal Irish Foot Guards, accompanied the national army towards the continent. Started from Rochester, it unloads in France, with Ambleteuse, the January 4th 1689, with the king Jacques II, and follows it to Saint Germain-in-Bush hammer.

With the service of France

Daniel becomes Major regiment of Limerick, then obtained a post of officer reformed in the regiment of Dillon. It is as a major of this regiment that it is illustrated with the battles of Casement bolt in 1702, gaining the nickname of Brave of Casement bolt . He is then made colonel, then Brigadier of the armies of the king. He is put at the head of the Irish Brigade. He passes in Spain in 1706 and where he has a regiment of dragons to his name (Mahony-Dragons). He takes part in the great battles of the War of succession of Spain: Alicante] and Carthagène in 1706, Almanza and Alcira in 1707. The same year, he is commander-in-chief of the Spanish armies in Sicily; its arrival made safe the possession of this island by the king of Spain and stopped Net the many conspiracies in favor of the emperor. Alcoy in 1708, Talavera in 1710. With the Battle of Almanza where it made astonishing actions with the head of the " Mahony-Dragons" , it was made Brigadier. With the Battle of Villaviciosa, gained by the marshal duke of Vendôme the December 12th 1710, and at the conclusion which Philippe V acquires the throne of Spain definitively, Daniel ordered " the dragons which held in side the line of the ennemi" (history of the campaigns of the duke of Vendôme p165). One finds it with Saragossa in 1710 where, with the head of the Spanish dragons, it collapsed in the Èbre the Portuguese cavalry and seized enemy artillery. It is also in Igualaga. It had been appointed lieutenant general, made Count by the king of Spain the November 9th 1706 and had received from Philippe V a commandery of the Ordre of Santiago. Its military important facts are reported in the campaigns of the duke of Vendôme and the marshal of Berwick.

Family

Daniel O' Mahony married twice: with Cécilia, girl of Georges Weld, in first weddings and with Charlotte, girl of Henry de Bulkeley, in second weddings. Killed with the battle of Ocaña, shortly after its second marriage, it did not have of them children. First bed:

James Joseph (Jacques), born on November 3rd 1699 with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, general lieutenant with the service of King de Naples, marries on December 22nd 1739 Anne, girl of Thomas Clifford (1687-1718) and Charlotte Levingston, 3rd countess of Newburgh (1694-1755). Their daughter, Cecilia Carlotta, born on December 12th 1740 with Naples, deceased on February 18th 1780 with Rome wife in Naples, on May 18th 1757, Benedetto, 5th prince Giustiniani, born on July 11th 1735 in Rome, deceased on February 26th 1793 in Rome, from which it has Donna Cecilia (1796-1877) which marries Charles, 4th marquis de Bandi and Don Vincenzo, 6th prince Giustiniani and 6th count de Newburgh who marries Nicolette Grillo, dei duchi della Montadragona .
Dermitius (Demetrius), born the December 18th 1702 with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, lieutenant-general with the service of king d' Espagne and ambassador with Vienna, died without posterity.
Mary Anne, born the October 18th 1701, married in 1722 with Richard Cantillon (celebrates banking, Irish economist and demographer, the " father of the economy politique" , assassinated with London in 1734) and 1735 François de Bulkeley (brother of Charlotte, 2nd wife of Daniel)
Jean-Georges, born the September 13rd 1704 with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer.
Léonore, married to Cornelio O' Ryan, noble Irish jacobite, died captain of the regiment of Berwick, during the battle of Almanza the April 23rd 1707.

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Site of Dominique Barber

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