James Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan

May 12, 1719. The death of James Francis Edward Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan, only son (b. April, 1693) of the great Irish Jacobite general, Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan, who married, in 1689, the 15-year old Lady Honora de Burgh, daughter of William de Burgh, 7th Earl of Clanricarde. Three months after the birth of James Francis Edward Sarsfield, who bore the courtesy title of Viscount Tully, his illustrious father died of fatal wounds sustained in the Battle of Landen (July 29, 1693), while campaigning with French Army in Flanders. Honora, Countess of Lucan, married secondly, on March 26, 1695, in the Chapel Royal at the Chateau of Saint Germain-en- Laye, James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, to whom she bore a son, James FitzJames (he later added the surname Stuart), Earl of Tynemouth, later 2nd Duke of Berwick (though still better known by his Spanish title of Duque de Liria y Xerica) (b. October 19, 1696). After suffering a miscarriage, she died of tuberculosis on January 16, 1698, in Pézenas in Languedoc and was buried in the English convent at Pontoise. Her widower had her heart removed and encased in a silver box. The young orphaned Earl of Lucan was raised, together with his half-brother, by his stepfather, the Duke of Berwick, who re-married, in Paris, on April 18, 1700, Anne (1675–1751), daughter of Henry Bulkeley, Master of the Household to KING JAMES II & VII. They had eight sons and five daughters.

James Francis Edward Sarsfield, 2nd Earl of Lucan (1693–1719), served in both the French and Spanish armies. He died unmarried in St Omer aged twenty-six. With his death, the Earldom of Lucan became extinct.