Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet

Sir Valentine Browne, 1st Baronet, of Molahiffe (died 1633), owned a large estate in south-west Ireland and was a lawyer who served as sheriff of County Kerry.

Birth and origins[]

Valentine was probably born in the 1580s in Ireland. He was the eldest son of Nicholas Browne and his wife Sheela O'Sullivan Beare. His father was Sir Nicholas Browne of Ross Castle.^[1] His paternal grandfather, another Valentine Browne, had come from Croft, and had acquired large estates in Munster, Ireland as surveyor-general.

His mother was a daughter of Eoin the O'Sullivan Beare^[2] who had lost his chieftainship to his nephew Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare who had claimed a right to it by primogeniture. His mother's family were part of the O'Sullivans, a Gaelic Irish clan. His father probably converted to Catholicism to marry his mother.

Early life[]

Browne studied law and was admitted to Gray's Inn on 12 March 1612.^[7] On 21 December 1621 Browne was created Baronet Browne of Molahiffe.^[8][9] In 1623 Sir Valentine was appointed Sheriff of County Kerry.

First marriage and children[]

Sir Valentine married first Alice FitzGerald, fifth daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, the rebel earl, by his second wife, Eleanor Butler.^[10]

Valentine and Alice had five children, three sons:

1. Valentine (died 1640), his successor^[11]
2. James, captain in the army^[12]
3. Nicholas, died without issue^[13]

—and two daughters of which nothing further is known.

Second marriage and children[]

Sir Valentine married secondly Julia MacCarty, daughter of Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry.^[14]

Valentine and Julia had one son:

1. Thomas (died 1684), who married his cousin Elizabeth Browne, daughter of Sir John Browne, knight of Hospital, County Limerick^[15]

Death and timeline[]

Sir Valentine died on 7 September 1633 and was buried in the church of Killarney.^[16]

Notes, citations, and sources[]

Notes[]

Citations[]

Sources[]

• Brydges, Egerton (1817). A Biographical Peerage of the Empire of Great Britain. London: J. Nichols. OCLC 80392503.
• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348. (for Desmond)
• Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth P. (1909). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (71st ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 28297274.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1900). Complete Baronetage, 1611 to 1800. 1 (1st ed.). Exeter: William Pollard & Co. OCLC 866278985. – 1611 to 1625 (for Browne)
• Cokayne, George Edward (1913). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 3 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Canonteign to Cutts (for Clancarty)
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, No. 2 (3rd ed.). London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-86193-106-8.
• Hasler, P. W. (1981). The House of Commons 1558 – 1603. 1. London: His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-887501-9. – A to C
• Joyce, Patrick Weston (1903). A Concise History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1837 (12th ed.). Dublin: M. H. Gill & Son. OCLC 815623752.
• Lodge, John (1789). Archdall, Mervyn (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. 7. Dublin: James Moore. OCLC 264906028. – Barons (under Aylmer)

This article needs additional or more specific categories. Please by adding categories to it so that it can be listed with similar articles. (March 2021)