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Lord Deputy of Ireland

head of the Irish executive under English rule

48 dated entries naming Lord Deputy of Ireland, drawn from 46 separate years between 1466 CE and 1687 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1466Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, serving as Lord Deputy of Ireland, leads an expedition against O'Connor Faly.source
  • 1467The Lord Deputy is granted Lambay Island by statute to build a fortress for England's protection against the Spaniards, French and Scots.source
  • 1468February 15 – The Earl of Desmond, Thomas FitzGerald, until recently the Kingdom of England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, is beheaded on orders of his successor, John Tiptoft, shortly after being arrested on accusations of treason against the Crown, then quickly tried and convicted in a show trial.source
  • 1484July–August – Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy of Ireland, attends the English court.source
  • 1492Archbishop Walter Fitzsimon is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1496Garret More, the Great Earl of Kildare, returns to Ireland as Lord Deputy of Ireland. He holds the position until his death in 1513.source

16th century

  • 1504August 19 – The Battle of Knockdoe is fought in Ireland's County Galway as 6,000 troops led by the English Lord Deputy of Ireland, Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare assist Maelsechlainn mac Tadhg Ó Cellaigh, King of Uí Mháine, against 4,000 troops of Irish chieftain Ulick Fionn Burke, Lord of the Clanricarde lands. Burke had previously attacked and destroyed Ó Cellaigh's castles at Monivea, Castleblakeney and Garbally and sought Kildare's help. Kildare's forces win the battle.source
  • 1504August 19 – Battle of Knockdoe: Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Lord Deputy of Ireland, defeats Ulick Fionn Burke, the Clanricarde.source
  • 1520March 10 – Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk becomes England's new Lord Deputy of Irelandsource
  • 1529William Skeffington was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland to Henry's son, the duke of Richmond, the nominal Lord Lieutenant of Irelandsource
  • 1535July – Lord Leonard Grey arrives from England as Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1538January 14 – Leonard Grey, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, successfully negotiates a truce in the semi-independent County Laois, formerly an Irish Kingdom, over the areas leadership. between Peter O'Moore and Rory Lysaght.source
  • 1538July 11 – Galway is visited by Lord Deputy of Ireland, Leonard Grey. This is the first visit of a King's Deputy to the town, and marks the start of closer relations between the sometimes-beleaguered town and the Anglo-Irish administration in Dublin. He is lavishly entertained and stays for seven days.source
  • 1540Anthony St Leger is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland and tasked with the repression of disorder, beginning the pacification policy of surrender and regrant (which lasts until 1543).source
  • 1541July 28 – Leonard Grey, 1st Viscount Grane, Lord Deputy of Ireland, died by execution (born 1479/1492)source
  • 1546October 17 – Irish noble James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, the chief opponent of the policies of Sir Anthony St Leger, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland up until April 1, is fatally poisoned after being invited to the Ely Palace near London. Ormond dies 11 days later, and no investigation is carried out by the Crown as to whether St Leger is involved. St Leger becomes the Lord Deputy again less than three weeks after Ormond's death.source
  • 1548April 22 – Sir Edward Bellingham is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1550July – instructions issued to Lord Deputy for resumption, surveying and leasing of Leix and Offaly.source
  • 1552January – James Croft, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is commissioned to look into the state of mining in Ireland.source
  • 1553October – Anthony St Leger is reappointed as Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1556April – Thomas, Viscount Fitzwalter is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 1557July 10 – July 19: Thomas Radclyffe (newly succeeded as Earl of Sussex), Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against the O'Connors of Offaly.source
  • 1563May – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, English administrator and soldier, Lord Deputy of Ireland (died 1625)source
  • 1565Sir Henry Sidney takes up the post of Lord Deputy of Ireland (October).source
  • 1566September 17–November 12 – Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, campaigns against O'Neill in Armagh, Tír Eoghain and Tyrconnell, reaching Derry on October 12. Humphrey Gilbert serves under him at the start of the campaign.source
  • 1569Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan leads a revolt against the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney, in Leinster.source
  • 1573February 23 – James FitzMaurice FitzGerald submits to John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, at Kilmallock.source
  • 1575August 5 – Sir Henry Sidney is reappointed Lord Deputy of Ireland following the resignation of Sir William FitzWilliam.source
  • 1576April – Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, shires Connacht into counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo.source
  • 1579August 21 – County Cavan is officially established following an agreement between Lord Deputy Henry Sidney and King Aodh Connallach Ó Raghallaigh of East Breifne.source
  • 158025 August – Battle of Glenmalure in the Second Desmond Rebellion: An Irish Catholic force made up of the Gaelic clans led by Fiach McHugh O'Byrne and James Eustace, Viscount Baltinglass of the Pale, defeat the English Army under the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Grey, at the O'Byrne's mountain stronghold of Glenmalure. Francis Cosby is among the English dead.source
  • 1582July – Lord Grey, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is recalled to England. Sir Henry Wallop and Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, are appointed lords justices responsible for the government of Ireland to succeed him.source
  • 1585July–August – Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is in Ulster; he confirms agreement between the O'Neill dynasty on 10 August and establishes County Coleraine (as the County of Colerain) and County Monaghan.source
  • 1588Lord Deputy William Fitzwilliam becomes Lord Deputy of Ireland, succeeding John Perrot in that office.source
  • 15923 November – Sir John Perrot, former Lord Deputy of Ireland, dies in the Tower of London awaiting sentence for a conviction for high treason.source
  • 15954 September – Lieutenant Colonel Richard Wingfield is wounded in a clash with Tyrone's troops in Ulster. He is knighted by the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Sir William Russell, in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, on 9 November before returning to England.source
  • 159714 October – Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, Lord Deputy of Ireland since 18 April (born c.1558)source

17th century

  • 16053 February – Sir Arthur Chichester is appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, an office he will hold for a decade.source
  • 1609Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, has 1,300 former Gaelic soldiers deported from Ulster to serve in the Swedish Army.source
  • 1613Arthur Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, is created 1st Baron Chichester of Belfast. Belfast is constituted a municipal corporation, comprising a Sovereign, twelve burgesses and a commonalty, with the privilege of sending two representatives to the Parliament of England. The first Sovereign appointed is Thomas Vesey, and the first representatives to parliament are Sir John Blennerhasset, Baron of the Exchequer of Ireland, and George Trevillian.source
  • 161518 April – the "Native's Rebellion": Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester, Lord Deputy of Ireland, informs the Privy Council of England of a plot by Hugh McShane O'Neill, Brian Crossagh, Rory O'Cahan and Alexander McDonald to massacre Ulster planters and of the arrest of many conspirators.source
  • 1616February – Arthur Chichester, 1st Baron Chichester's term as Lord Deputy of Ireland is terminated. He has served since 1605.source
  • 1620The title of Viscount Grandison is created in the Peerage of Ireland in favour of Oliver St John, Lord Deputy of Ireland.source
  • 162218 April – Oliver St John surrenders the office of Lord Deputy of Ireland. He had served since 1616.source
  • 1623January 21 – Viscount Falkland, England's Lord Deputy of Ireland, issues a proclamation ordering all Roman Catholic priests to leave Ireland, affecting negotiations over the "Spanish match" (which resume in March).source
  • 1634Landowner Sir Vincent Gookin publishes and circulates in Munster (under the form of a letter addressed to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, Thomas Wentworth) a bitter attack on everyone in Ireland and is forced to return in haste to England to escape prosecution.source
  • 1655July – Henry Cromwell, son of Oliver, is appointed as major-general of the forces in Ireland and a member of the Irish council of state. After the Lord Deputy, Charles Fleetwood, departs for England in September, Henry Cromwell de facto takes over that role also.source
  • 1687January 8 – Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, is appointed as the last Lord Deputy of Ireland by the English crown, and begins efforts to include more Roman Catholic Irishmen in the administration. Upon the removal of King James II in England and Scotland, the Earl of Tyrconnell loses his job and is replaced by James, who reigns briefly as King of Ireland until William III establishes his rule over the isle.source

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