Marquis de Lally-Tollendal

The family of '''Lally''' (also ''O'Lally'' or ''O'Mullally'') were an [[Irish people|Irish]] family originally from [[Tuam]], [[County Galway]], who distinguished themselves in the service of the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite pretenders]] and in the [[France|French]] army.<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/30100419|title=Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France|author=Hayes, Richard|year=1944|journal=Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review|volume=33|issue=129|pages=70–74|jstor=30100419}}</ref> {{TOC right}}

==Titles== [[Gerard Lally]] of Tullynadala was appointed a '''Baronet''' in the [[Baronetage of Ireland]] by the titular King [[James Francis Edward Stuart|James III and VIII]] (the "Old Pretender") on 7 July 1707. He was succeeded by his son, [[Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally|Thomas Arthur]], who took part in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]]. Upon his return to France in 1746, he was appointed '''Earl of Moenmoyne''', '''Viscount Ballymole''' and '''Baron Tollendally''', in the [[Peerage of Ireland]], by the [[House of Stuart|Stuart]] claimant.

These titles were never recognised by the government in [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Great Britain]] (''see [[Jacobite peerage]]''). In about 1755, he was also named '''Comte de Lally''' and '''Baron de Tollendal''' by King [[Louis XV]], although this may have been merely a recognition of his Jacobite title.

==Execution== Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally was executed in 1766, but formally pardoned posthumously in 1778. A legend about his execution circulated in the following years, resurrected by [[A.C.H. Smith]] in his 2000 novel ''The Dangerous Memoir of Citizen Sade''. Herein, the author had the [[Marquis de Sade]] remembering that before the introduction of the [[guillotine]] ''we were burned, or impaled, or broken, when it was our right as noblemen to demand the axe, until they botched Lally-Tollendal and he danced around for half a minute trying to hold his head on.''

==Heir== His only son, [[Trophime-Gérard, Marquis de Lally-Tollendal|Trophime Gérard]], was an ''[[émigré]]'' during the [[French Revolution]], but after the [[Bourbon Restoration in France|Bourbon Restoration]] was named (21 March 1815) '''Marquis de Lally-Tollendal''' and a [[Peerage of France|Peer of France]]. He died on 11 March 1830, whereupon all titles passed to his daughter's estate.<ref name="auto"/>

==Baronets (1707)== *[[Gerard Lally|Sir Gerard Lally, 1st Baronet]] (died 1737) *[[Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally|Sir Thomas Arthur Lally, 2nd Baronet]] (1702–1766), created Earl of Moenmoyne in 1746

==Earls of Moenmoyne (1746) and Comtes de Lally (c. 1755)== *[[Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally|Thomas Arthur Lally, 1st Comte de Lally]] (1702–1766) *[[Trophime-Gérard, Marquis de Lally-Tollendal|Trophime Gérard de Lally, 2nd Comte de Lally]] (1751–1830), created Marquis de Lally-Tollendal in 1815

==Marquis de Lally-Tollendal (1815)== *[[Trophime-Gérard, Marquis de Lally-Tollendal|Trophime Gérard de Lally, Marquis de Lally-Tollendal]] (1751–1830)<ref name="auto"/>

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==See also== *[[Jacobite Peerage]]

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