B42373-O'Neill

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Name of the family:

O'Neill

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Ar. two lions rump. combattant gu. armed and langued az. supporting a sinister hand couped at the wrist of the second.

Info about the family:

The O'Neill, of Tyrone, descended from Shane a Diamus O'Neill, or John, the proud O'Neill, the eldest legitimate son of Con Baccagh O'Neill, first Earl of Tyrone, who waged war against Queen Elisabeth, and visited the queen at her Court to arrange terms of peace, when he astonished the citizens of London by marching through the streets of the city as chieftain at the head of his gallowglasses, or armed guards, with unshaven beards, flowing hair, and saffron-dyed mantles; be was slain 1567, by Mac Donell, leaving four sons, I. John j II. Henry; III. Con; IV. Art. Con O'Neill, the third son, was hanged 1590, by order of Hugh, Earl of Tyrone, the son of his father's illegitimate brother, Lord Dungannon, leaving a son, Art Oge O'Neill, father of Con Roe O'Neill, who had two sons: I. Art. who had a son, Con; and II. Colonel John O'Neill, who were the last known members of this senior line of O'Neill

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