Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde

Ulick MacRichard Burke, 5th Earl of Clanricarde, 2nd Earl of St Albans, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1604, London – July 1657, Kent), was an Irish nobleman who was involved in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Clanricarde was a Catholic Royalist, who had overall command of the Irish forces during the later stages of the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

He was the son of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde, by his wife Frances Walsingham. Ulick's father was from an Anglo-Norman family who had been long settled in the west of Ireland and become Gaelicised. Although during the early Sixteenth century the family had rebelled against the Crown on several occasions, Ulick's father had been a strong supporter of Elizabeth I. He fought on the Queen's side during Tyrone's Rebellion, notably during the victory at Battle of Kinsale where he was wounded. After the war he married the widow of Earl of Essex, a recent commander in Ireland, who was the daughter of the English Secretary of State and spymaster Francis Walsingham.

In 1622, Ulick married his only wife Anne Compton, the daughter of William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton and his wife Elizabeth Spencer. They had a single child, Margaret Burgh who married Charles MacCarty, Viscount Muskerry.

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