Lord Claneboye’s Regiment of Horse
Active | 1642 to 1649 |
Country | Ireland |
Allegiance | Protestant |
Royalist | |
Conflicts | Irish Confederate War |
Type | Horse |
Colonel | Lord Claneboyes |
Area Raised | Ulster |
Flag Colour | |
Flag Design | |
Field Armies | Monro 1642-6 |
Montgomery 1649 |
Also known as the Earl of Clanbrassil's Regiment of Horse
Troop of horse raised and serving in Ulster during the Irish Confederate Wars, later expanded to a regiment and fighting for the Royalists
Service History
1642
- Raised in Ulster
- July: Taken into Parliamentary pay
- September: Assigned to support the Scots army in Ulster
1643
1644
- 1st Lord Claneboys dies, command passes to the 2nd Lord Claneboys
1645
1646
- June: Battle of Benburb
1647
1648
1649
- September: Mustered at Ballycoine for the Royalists
Notes
Claneboye’s troop were newly raised in Ulster in 1642. Noted in the Ulster forces in 1642 1). Originally they were raised in order to support the Scots army in Ulster. At Benburb they fought as a single troop and their cornet was slain. By 1649 they had joined the Royalists and been expanded to a full regiment of 4 or 5 troops.
Flags & Equipment
Hollick suggests the troop's cornet might have been red and/or white in common with Lord Claneboys’ Regiment of Foot2).
Notable Officers
A list of the unit's officers is shown in Army List of the Ulster British Forces, 1642-1646. by Kevin Forkan. Archivium Hibernicum, Vol. 59 (2005), pp. 51-65 available via JSTOR
James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboys
James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye died in 1644 at the age of 84.
James Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Claneboys
James Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Claneboye succeeded his father and was created 1st Earl of Clanbrassil in 1647.
Strength
- 1642: 60 horse
- August 1642: 11 officers, 60 troopers, 4 wagon horses
- September 1649: A list of the regiment of horse commanded by the earle of Clonbrassill:— the collonell ; leiutenant-coilonell ; captaines, 3 ; leiutenants, 4 ; cornetts, 4 ; quartermasters, 4 ; corporalls, 13 ; trumpets, 7 ; troopers, 202; chirurgeon- major and regiment quartermaster3).