Valentine was born in 1638.[5] He was the eldest son of Valentine Browne and Mary MacCarthy. His father was the 2nd Baronet Browne of Molahiffe, County Kerry.
Sir Valentine commanded a regiment in the Irish army and seems to have been taken prisoner at the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.[25]
Viscount Kenmare
Sir Valentine was created 1st Viscount Kenmare and Baron Castlerosse (after Ross Castle) on 20 May 1689, by King James II, after his deposition by the English Parliament, but while he still possessed his rights as King of Ireland. At the time James was presiding over the short-lived Patriot Parliament. The peerage remained on the Irish patent roll in a constitutionally ambiguous position, but was not recognized by the Protestant political establishment.[26]
Catholicism and Death
The 1st Viscount Kenmare wrote in his will that he wanted to be buried in "some decent Catholic church, monastery, abbey, or graveyard".[27] He was therefore Catholic despite the English origin of his family. He died in 1694 and was succeeded by his eldest son Nicholas.[28]
Notes and references
Notes
^This family tree is based on genealogies of the baronets Browne[1][2] and the viscounts Muskerry (later earls of Clancarty).[3][4]
^Cokayne 1900, p. 237, line 19. "III. 1640. Sir Valentine Browne, Bart. [I. 1622], of Molahiffe aforesaid, 1st s. [son] and h. [heir], b. [born] 1638, being but 2 years old at his fathers death."
^Cokayne 1900, p. 237, line 14. "... he [V. Browne, 2nd Bt.] m. [married] Mary (sister of his stepmother) da. [daughter] of Charles (MacCarty), 1st Viscount Muskerry [I.] ..."
^O'Hart 1892, p. 122. "Cormac MacCarty Mor, Prince of Desmond (see the MacCarty Mór Stem, No. 115,) had a second son, Dermod Mór, of Muscry (now Muskerry) who was the ancestor of MacCarthy, lords of Muscry and earls of Clan Carthy."
^Lainé 1836, p. 72. "Dermod-Môr, Mac-Carthy, fils puiné de Cormac-Môr, prince de Desmond et d'Honoria Fitz-Maurice, eut en apanage la baronnie de Muskery ..."
^Cokayne 1892, p. 342, line 21. "... suc. his father in the Baronetcy, a dignity cr. 16 Feb. 1621/2), when two years old in 1640;"
^Lodge 1789, p. 55, line 37. "Sir Valentine, the 3rd Baronet was only two years old when he succeeded his father "
^Adams 1904, p. 327. "In 1651, Muskerry was guardian to his nephew Sir Valentine Browne ..."
^Lodge 1789, p. 55 line 38. "... received a grant of land under the acts of settlement."
^Ruvigny 1904, p. 71, line 28. "He appears to have been among those taken prisoners at the battle of Aughrim, 12 July 1691, and to have been attainted."
^Cokayne 1892, p. 342, line 24. "... being a staunch adherent of that king [James II], was by him cr. [created] 20 May 1689, Baron Castlerosse and Viscount Kenmare [I. [Ireland]]"
Lainé, P. Louis (1836). "Mac-Carthy". Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France [Genealogical and Historical Archives of the Nobility of France] (in French). Vol. Tome cinquième. Paris: Imprimerie de Bethune et Plon. pp. 1–102. OCLC865941166.