Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford
- Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford
Theobald Taaffe 1st Earl of Carlingford was a Royalist officer.
Sir John Taaffe, 1st Viscount Taaffe of Corren left fifteen children, of whom the eldest, Theobald, took a prominent part in the English Civil War, accompanied Charles II in exile,
He was one of the ten named in Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 as leaders of the Royalist forces in Ireland.
Taaffe led the Irish Munster army to defeat at the battle of Knocknanauss in 1647. He had an antiquated sense of chivalry- before Knocknanuss he suggested to Baron Inchiquin, the enemy general, that the battle should be decided by 1000 hand picked men from each side. Inchiquin's reply was sarcastic: "you have performed as much as I desire in bringing your army hither, I shall not desire you to loose any advantage you have in numbers of men, being your offer was only made for recreation."
As fate would have it, Taaffe and Inchiquin fought on the same side at the Battle of Arklow two years later. Unfortunately for Taaffe, Inchiquin lost this time.
Following the Restoration, he was creat€ed Earl of Carlingford. He was sent on missions to the duke of Lorraine and to the Holy Roman Emperor by which was established the connection of his family with the house of Habsburg and Lorraine, which continued to the end of the Habsburg monarchy.
References
See Würzbach, "Biographisches Lexicon Österreichs. Memoirs of the Family of Taaffe" (Vienna, 1856), privately printed; article in the "Contemporary Review" (1893), by EB Lanin. "The Prague Politik" published in December 1904 contains some interesting correspondence collected from Taaffe's papers.
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