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Bookplate of Charles O'Brien, Maréchal de Thomond (1699-1761) titular 6th Viscount Clare and titular 9th Earl of Thomond, which Irish titles he would have inherited had his grandfather Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare, not been attainted in 1691. He was an Irish military officer and Jacobite exile in the service of the King of France. Appointed as a Marshal of France, he is known to posterity as the Maréchal de Thomond. Charles O'Brien was born in 1699 at St Germain-en-Laye, the only son and heir of Charles O'Brien, titular 5th Viscount Clare (second son of Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare, who was attainded in 1691), by his wife Charlotte Bulkeley, the sister of Anne Bulkeley, second wife of James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick and Marshal of France. Charles O'Brien was invested as a Knight of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit of France in 1746 at the chapel of Versailles. He held the office of Governor of Neuf-Brisach in Alsace, and was Commander-in-Chief of the province of Languedoc. In 1757 he was made a Marshal of France. He died on 9 September 1761, aged 62, at Montpellier, France. In 1755 O'Brien married Marie Genevieve Louise Gautier, daughter of François Gautier, marquis de Chiffreville, by whom he had issue including Charles O'Brien, titular 10th Earl of Thomond (1757–1774). When his cousin, Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond, 1st Viscount Tadcaster, Baron Ibrackan, died in 1741, Charles O'Brien was the next heir, but as his descent was through his grandfather Daniel O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare, who had been attainded in 1691, the titles became forfeit. However, Charles O'Brien nevertheless used the titles during his exile in France, as did his son, who died childless in 1774. His cousin, Henry O'Brien, 8th Earl of Thomond, offered the Thomond estates to Charles on the condition of his conversion to Protestantism, but he refused, and so he willed them to Murrough O'Brien (d.1741), the young son of William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin, with remainder to Percy Wyndham. Murrough's death in 1741 caused the Wyndham reversion to become effective, with the estates leaving O'Brien hands. The bookplate shows his coat of arms atop two marshal's batons in saltire and surrounded by a Collar of the Order of Saint Michael. |
| Date | 18th century |
| Source | Joseph Jackson Howard (Ed.), Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, Vol.I, 3rd Series, London, 1896, pp.49-50, G.E.Cockayne, Bookplate of Charles O'Brien[1] |
| Author | Unknown engraver |
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