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Randal MacDonnell, marquess and 2nd earl of Antrim
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Randal MacDonnell, marquess and 2nd earl of Antrim

Irish noble
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Also known as: Randal MacDonnell, Marquess and 2nd Earl of Antrim, Viscount Dunluce
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Born:
June 9, 1609
Died:
February 3, 1682, Ballymagarry, County Antrim, Ireland (aged 72)
Political Affiliation:
Cavalier
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Randal MacDonnell, marquess and 2nd earl of Antrim (born June 9, 1609—died February 3, 1682, Ballymagarry, County Antrim, Ireland) was a prominent Roman Catholic Royalist during the English Civil Wars who later turned against King Charles I and was employed by Oliver Cromwell. A grandson of the noted Irish chieftain (of Scottish ancestry) Sorley Boy MacDonnell, he married (1635) the widow of the 1st Duke of Buckingham, a close friend of Charles I. On the outbreak of the Bishops’ Wars in 1639, MacDonnell planned an attack on Argyll in Scotland; this project was abortive, as were numerous later schemes by ...(100 of 306 words)

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