Honora de Burgh

Lady Honora Burke (1674–1698), styled at different times as Honora Sarsfield, Countess of Lucan and Honora FitzJames, Duchess of Berwick, was an Irish of the late seventeenth century.

Honora was the daughter of William Burke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and Lady Helen MacCarty. The Burkes (originally De Burgh) were an Anglo-Norman family long-established in western Ireland while her mother, daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty, was part of the traditional Gaelic aristocracy. Honora Burke was born at her father's estate at Portumna Castle in County Galway and was raised as a Roman Catholic. She was often referred to as Honora de Bugh during this period.

In 1689 she took part in an apparently arranged marriage to Patrick Sarsfield, whom she had probably first met some time earlier in the year. Sarsfield was an experienced soldier now serving in the Irish Army of James II during the Williamite War in Ireland.

Satsfield rose rapidly to become one of the dominant leaders of the Jacobite movement in Ireland, noted in particular for his raid on King William's artillery train shortly before the Siege of Limerick (1690). Following the defeat at the Battle of Aughrim and the surrender of Limerick following a second siege in 1691, Sarsfield led the defeated Irish Army to France to continue serving the exiled James II an event known as the Flight of the Wild Geese. Honora had probably left for France a year earlier with other Jacobite ladies. Following a failed plan to invade England in 1692, Patrick Sarsfield was killed at the Battle of Landen the following year.

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