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CARLINGFORD 29 [William TAAFFE,j/y/,?rf' Viscount Taaffe, ist s. andh. ap. by istwife, was, apparently, of full age in 1668. He d. unm. and v.p.^ before Dec. 1673. Admon. 12 Nov. 1688 and i Oct. 1691 at Dublin.] II. 1677. 2. Nicholas (Taaffe), Earl of Carlingford, 6fc. [I.], 3rd but I St surv. s. and h. by ist wife. P.C. [I.] 3 May 1686; Envoy to the Emperor Leopold, 1689. He did not attend the Pari. [I.] of James II, 7 May 1 689. C*) He m. Mary, only child of Humphrey Weld, of Lulworth, Dorset, by Clare, da. of Thomas (Arundell), Baron Arundell of Wardour. He d. s.p., being slain at the head of his regt. of Foot, at the battle of the Boyne, 2 July 1 690, on the side of King James. Admon. i Oct. 1691, at Dublin. III. 1690. 3. Francis (Taaffe), Earl OF Carlingford, {ffc. [I.], br. and h., b. 1639, at Ballymote, co. Sligo. He was ed. at Olmiltz in Germany; became Page of Honour to the Emperor Ferdi- nand, was above 30 years in the Imperial Service (as "Count Taaffe"). He commanded an Austrian Cuirassier Regt. in 1673, and fought at Sanzheim and Mahlhausen. Lieut. Gen. of Horse 1687; Field Marshal and Knight of the Golden Fleece 1694. He was exempted from attainder by a special clause in the Act of Pari., i Will, and Mary. He m., in 1676, Helena Maximiliana von Traudisch, widow of Wilhelm Heinrich Schlik., and later of Franz Ernst Schlik {ci. 16 Aug. 1675), both Counts of Bassano AND Weisskirchen.C") She^. ini700. He^.j./i.i., Aug. 1704, at Nancy, and was bur. in the Cathedral there, aged 6^. Will dat. 23 Feb. 1701 to 16 July 1704. Clone, see '■'■ Dungan of C lane.' Clancarty, Donogh (M'Carty), Earl of. Dillon, Thomas (Dillon), Viscount. Dungan of Clane, William (Dungan), Viscount, a: Earl of Limerick 1685. Fingal, Luke (Plunkett), Earl of. Inchiquin, Morrough (O'Brien), Earl of. Iveagh, Arthur (Magenis), Viscount. Louth, Oliver (Plunkett), Baron of. Mountgarret, Edmund (Butler), Viscount. Muskerry, Charles (M'Carty), Viscount. Taaffe, William, styled Viscount Taaffe, being s. and h. ap. or the Earl of Carlingford. Tyrconnel, Oliver (Fitzwilliam), Earl of [so cr. 1661]. See King James' Irish Army List, 1689, by J. D'Alton (Dublin, 1885), p. 6. (^) For a list of Peers present in, and absent from, this Pari., see Appendix D to this volume. C') These Counts were both of the Schlackenwerther line, although they were only 4th cousins. Helena was and wife to each of them. See Wiener Jrc/iiv Jiir Gesch., Liter, und Kunst, vol. xvii, p. 417 sqq., Wurzbach, Biog. Lex. d. Kaiserthums Osterreich, vol. xxx, etc. {ex inform. G. W. Watson).