Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland

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The Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland was a royalist-aligned group of Irish Confederates who supported negotiating and allying with King Charles I’s Lord Lieutenant, the Marquis of Ormond, in contrast to more hardline or clerical elements.

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Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Irish Confederate faction
political faction
royalist faction
activeDuring Irish Confederate Wars
Wars of the Three Kingdoms
aimedTo preserve property rights of Catholic landowners
conflictWith papal nuncio Giovanni Battista Rinuccini
country Irish Catholic Confederation
surface form: Confederate Ireland
dissolvedAfter Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
collapse of Confederate Ireland
favored compromise with English crown
goal maintain alliance with English royalists
negotiate settlement with King Charles I
secure religious concessions for Irish Catholics
hasAlternativeName Ormond party
Ormondists
hasLeader James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
hasPoliticalAlignment Royalism
support for King Charles I of England
historicalContext English Civil War
Stuart monarchy crisis
ideology moderate Catholic royalism
influencedBy Anglo-Irish aristocratic interests
policies of King Charles I
language English
Irish
locatedIn British Isles
Kingdom of Ireland
opposed radical clerical demands within the Confederation
opposedBy Old Irish clerical party
clerical faction within Confederate Ireland
hardline Confederate faction
nuncio Rinuccini’s supporters
partOf Irish Confederates
surface form: Confederate Catholics of Ireland
positionOnGovernment support for monarchy over republicanism
religion Roman Catholicism
socialBase Anglo-Irish Catholic nobility
Catholic landed elite
stanceOnReligion acceptance of limited toleration within royalist framework
supported Anglo-Irish royalist interests
James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
Stuart monarchy
supportedTreaty 1646 Ormond peace proposals
1648 Ormond peace with the Confederates
timePeriod 1640s
typeOfConflictRole negotiating faction
usedDiplomaticChannel James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond
surface form: Marquis of Ormond

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Owen Roe O'Neill conflictWith Ormondist faction within Confederate Ireland