Lady Fiona O'Donnell[a] (Irish: Fionnghuala Ó Dhomhnaill; fl. 1567–1611) was a Scottish aristocrat and queen consort of Tyrconnell.[2] She is better known by her Irish nickname Iníon Dubh[b] (pronounced in Ulster Irish and Scots Gaelic as in-NEEN DOO; "Black-Haired Daughter").[5][6]
^There is debate on the identity of her mother. Concannon believes Siobhán was born c. 1569, and that her mother was Iníon Dubh,[v] who married Sir Hugh around that time. However, Siobhán married Hugh O'Neill in 1574, making that date of birth unlikely. Casway and Walsh believe Siobhán's mother was Sir Hugh's first wife.[ii][iv]
^In a letter dated 31 January 1591, O'Neill references Siobhán's recent death.[iv]
^Her death date has alternately been given as 1639, 26 April 1640, or sometime after 31 March 1642.[iv]
^Sources disagree on Henry's date of death: 1610,[ii] c. 1620,[xv] or c. 1626.[iii] It is clear that he died sometime before the publication of Philip O'Sullevan's
Historia Catholica in 1621.[iv]
^Lee believes that Rose's mother was Catherine Magennis[iii] - however, since Rose was betrothed to Hugh Roe O'Donnell in the late 1580s, and Magennis married Rose's father in the 1590s, this is unlikely. According to Niall Garve O'Donnell, she is not a daughter of Siobhan O'Donnell.[iv]
^ abConcannon, p. 218-219 "Siobhan was probably the eldest of the family, and must have been born not later than 1569." "We know little of Siobhan, who can hardly have been more than one-and- twenty, when she died in 1590."
^ abOxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004, p. 511-512
^Hill 1873. "Sir Randal Macdonnell was married about the year 1604 to Ellis or Alice O'Neill, the third daughter of Hugh earl of Tyrone. This lady, who was born in 1583, was in her twenty-first year at the time of her marriage, and was younger than either of her sisters, lady Macmahon or Lady Maginnis. She was older than her brother Hugh, the baron of Dungannon."
^Cokayne 1910. "[The 1st Earl of Antrim] m., 1604, Alice, da. of Hugh (O'Neill), Earl of Tyrone [I], by his 2nd wife, Joanna, da. of Hugh McManus O'Donnell."
^Concannon, p. 218 "The inscription on the tomb in San Pietro in Montorio shows that her eldest child, Hugh, was born in 1585."
^Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1867, p. 459: "..he died unmarried on the 23rd of September, 1609, aged twenty-four... and was buried in the church of St. Peter's in Montorio..."
^ abcdefRoyal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 1867, p. 459
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