Mabel Bagenal

Mabel Bagenal
Countess of Tyrone
Bornc. 1571
Newry, County Down, Ireland
DiedDecember 1595
Dungannon or Newry, Ireland
Spouse(s)Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone
ParentsSir Nicholas Bagenal
Eleanor Griffith

Mabel O'Neill, Countess of Tyrone (née Bagenal; c. 1571 – December 1595)[1] was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman who was the third wife of prominent Irish lord Hugh O'Neill. She has been referred to as the "Helen of the Elizabethan Wars",[2][3][4] on account of the dramatic circumstances of her marriage.[5] Her brother Henry and her husband commanded opposing forces during the Nine Years' War.[6]

  1. ^ Clarke, Aidan; Barry, Judy; O'Byrne, Emmett (October 2009). McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). "Bagenal (O'Neill), Mabel". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.3318/dib.006953.v1.
  2. ^ Newmann, Kate. "Mabel Bagenal ( - c.1600): Wife of Hugh O'Neill". The Dictionary of Ulster Biography. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  3. ^ Morgan 1993, p. 10.
  4. ^ Bagenal 1925, p. viii.
  5. ^ Casway 2016.
  6. ^ Gibson 2013.