B41870-O'Brien

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Name of the family:

O'Brien

Blason:

Gu. three lions pass. guard. in pale per pale or and ar.

Crest(s):

A dexter arm embowed vested gu. brandishing a sword ppr. pommel and hilt or.

Supporters:

Two lionsguard. per fess or and ar. armed and langued gu.

Motto:

Lamh laidir an nachtar.

Info about the family:

Viscount Clare, attainted 1690; Sir Daniel O'Brien, third son of Connor, third Earl of Thomond, was created, 1662, Visount O'Brien of Clare; his grandson, Daniel, third Viscount Clare, was outlawed 1690, for his adhesion to James II.; the outlawed Viscount's grandson, Charles, sixth Viscount Clare, became, in 1741, heir to the earldom of Thomond, on the death of Henry, eighth Earl of Thomond, and assumed the title. This was the famous Lord Clare, of the Irish Brigade, afterwards Marshal Thomond, of the French service, so distinguished at Fontenoy and Laffeldt. He d. 1701, leaving a son and heir, Charles O'Brien, d.s.p. 1764, and a dau. Antoinette Charlotte Marie Septimanie, m. the Duke de Choiseul-Praslin, and her descendant the present Duke de Choiseul-Praslin, is heir general of the Viscounts Clare and the Earls of Thomond

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744

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