Joan Boyle
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There are several women called Joan Boyle in the family of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, including his mother, first wife and fourth daughter.
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[edit] Joan Boyle (born Naylor), mother of the First Earl of Cork
Joan Boyle (born Naylor) (October 15, 1529 - March 26, 1586) was the mother of several issue but notably Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
She was born at Canterbury, Kent, England, the daughter of John Naylor in Canterbury. She married at Canterbury on October 6, 1565, Roger Boyle (d. March 24, 1576), of Preston, near Faversham, Kent, England, when she was 35 and he was 41 (quite a late marriage and thus perhaps particularly notable for its productivity in terms of issue).[1] They had issue:
- (1) John later D.D. (Oxford) and, from August 27, 1618, Bishop of Cork and Cloyne. He was born circa 1564 at Canterbury; died July 10, 1620 at Cork. He was interred two days later at Youghal.[2]
- (2) Richard, born October 13, 1566, at Canterbury, when Joan was 36.
- (3) Hugh, was born in about 1568 at Canterbury, died without issue.[3]
- (4) Elizabeth, was born at Canterbury. She married Pierce Power, Esq., and had issue, Roger Power, Esq., of Corbenny, county Cork. Elizabeth is buried at Youghal.[4]
- (5) Mary, was born circa 1572, when Joan was 43, at Canterbury. She married Sir Richard Smith, Knt., and was interred at Youghal. Their son Sir Piercy Smith of Ballynetra, county Waterford, died in 1657 leaving issue.[5]
Joan Boyle died at the age of 56 and was buried in the upper end of the chancel of the Parish Church of Preston near Faversham, Kent, England. Her husband was later interred with her, and their son the Earl of Cork "erected a fair alabaster tomb over the place where they were buried, with an iron grate before it, for the better preservation thereof."[6]
[edit] Joan Boyle, first wife of the 1st Earl of Cork
Joan Boyle (1578 - December 14, 1599) was the wife of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork.
One of two daughters and co-heirs of William Apsley, of Limerick, Ireland, one of the council to the first President of the province of Munster. She married at Limerick on November 6, 1595, Richard Boyle, she being 17 and he 28. This marriage brought her husband an estate worth £500 a year, "the beginning and foundation of my fortune" [7], which he continued to receive until at least 1632.
She died during childbirth aged just 21 in Mallow, Ireland and was buried with her still-born son in Buttevant church, County Cork, Ireland.[8]
His detractors maintained that unlike many of his other close relatives whom he took great care to commemorate, Richard took no trouble to have his first wife commemorated after her death, leading to the conviction among some that his (in every sense) monumental commemorative endeavours were entirely practical (in terms of securing his personal objectives) rather than sentimental (Joan's connections being of no direct use to him after her passing).
His strongest commemoration of Joan might be in the name he gave his fourth daughter (see above) but this may of course have been given in memory of his mother (also above).
[edit] Lady Joan Boyle, daughter of the First Earl of Cork
Lady Joan Boyle (June 14, 1611 - March 11, 1656) was the fourth daughter and fifth child of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork by his second wife Catherine, only daughter of Sir Jeffrey Fenton, Principal Secretary of State, and Privy Counsellor, in Ireland.[9]
She married George "The Fairy Earl" FitzGerald, 16th Earl of Kildare on August 15, 1630.
She had three children:
- Wentworth FitzGerald, who succeeded his father as the 17th Earl of Kildare, was born in 1634, married: Lady Elizabeth Holles (2nd daughter of 2nd Earl of Clare) and died on the March 5, 1664.
- Robert Fitzgerald (for whom the only dates available seem to be his marriage) married Mary Clotworthy (daughter of James Clotworthy, of Monnimore, co. Londonderry, Ireland) on August 4, 1663.
- Elizabeth FitzGerald (for whom the only details available seem to be her two marriages and her death) married the 2nd Earl of Clancarty and subsequently married Sir William Davies and died in 1660.
[edit] References
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.150-1
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.150
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.150
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.150
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.150
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.151
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.152
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.152
- ^ Lodge, John, & Archdall, Mervyn, A.M., The Peerage of Ireland, Dublin, 1789, vol.1, p.156
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