Roger "the Wise" Boyle

1st Earl of Orrery, Baron of Broghill, Baron Castlemartyr, Lord President of Munster, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

Born: 25 Apr 1621 in Lismore, co. Cork, Ireland

Father: Sir Richard Boyle 1st Earl of Cork, 1st Viscount Dungarvan, 1st Baron Boyle of Youghal, Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland

• Born: 13 Oct 1566 in Canterbury, Kent, England
• Died: 15 Sep 1643 in Youghal, co Cork, Ireland
• Buried: in St Mary's Collegiate Church, Youghal, co Cork, Ireland

Mother: Catherine Fenton (only daughter of Alice Weston and Sir Geoffrey Fenton)

• Born: abt 1582
• Married: 25 Jul 1603 in Dublin, Ireland
• Died: 16 Feb 1629-30 in Dublin, Ireland
• Buried: 11 Mar 1629/30 in the National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of St Patrick, Dublin, Ireland

Wife: Lady Margaret Howard (3rd daughter of Lord Theophilus Howard of Walden, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and Elizabeth Hume)

• Christened: 11 Feb 1622 in St Martin Fields, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Married: 27 Jan 1640 in Queen Street, Westminster, Middlesex, England
• Children:
  • Lady Elizabeth Boyle
    • Died: 17 Oct 1709
  • Lady Margaret Boyle
    • Born: abt1644 in Burren, Ireland
    • Married: William O'Brien, 2nd Earl of Inchiquin (son of Elizabeth St Ledger and Murrough "An Tothaine" "The Incendiary"  O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin) on abt Dec 1665
    • Buried: 27 Dec 1683 in St Martin's Field, Westminster, Middlesex, England
  • Roger Boyle 2nd Earl of Orrery
    • Born: abt 1646
    • Baptised: 24 Aug 1646
    • Married: Lady Mary Sackville (daughter of Frances Cranfield and Richard Sackville, 5th Earl of Dorset) on 6 Feb 1664 in St Bride, London, Middlesex, England
    • Died: 29 Mar 1681-2
  • Rt Hon Henry Boyle
    • Born: abt 1648 in Castlemartyr, Cork, Ireland
    • Married: Lady Mary O'Brien (daughter of Elizabeth St Ledger and Murrough "An tothaine" O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin) on abt 1677
    • Died: 1693 during the Duke of Marlborough's campaign in Flanders, France
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• Buried: 24 Aug 1689 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England

Key Historical Events:

• Elevated to the Irish Peerage as Baron of Broghill on 28 February 1627.
• Made president of the Council in Scotland in 1655.
• Created Earl of Orrery and constituted by patent Lord President of Munster on 5 September 1660.

Died: 16 Oct 1679 in Castlemartyr, co Cork, Ireland

Buried: 18 Oct 1679 in Youghal, co Cork, Ireland

Politician, soldier, British-Irish author and dramatist.

He travelled on an extended grand tour of Europe between 1636 and 1639.