an only daughter, Margaret, first wife of James Butler, 2nd Baron Dunboyne, by whom she had two sons John (murdered in 1602), father of the 3rd Baron, and Piers (died 1626). Death Fitzpatrick seems to have been suddenly taken ill, and on 11 September 1581, he died in the house of William Kelly, surgeon, Dublin, at two o'clock in the afternoon. He was, said Sir Henry Sidney, "the most sufficient man in counsel and action for the war that ever I found of that country birth; great pity it was of his death". Upon Fitzpatrick's death his estates and title passed to his brother Florence Fitzpatrick. Sources Much correspondence between Sir Barnaby and his many friends, including the young king Edward VI has been collected and printed, some at first by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill House and later fully appearing in Literary Remains of King Edward the Sixth. Role as Proxy While the popular image of young Sir Barnaby as Edward VI's whipping boy persists on the basis of their great friendship, historian Leanda de Lisle has noted the lack of contemporary evidence for this scenario, suggesting it is a modern popular myth based on assumptions stemming from the later development of the Divine right of kings. Modern portrayals Albert Davies played Sir Barnaby Fitzpatrick in the 1936 film Tudor Rose. Robert Arthur was cast as a teenage Barnaby in the 1953 film Young Bess. Barnaby Fitzpatrick appears in Heirs of Squire Harry (1974), and in the young adult novel Timeless Love (2002) by Judith O'Brien. See also Baron Upper Ossory Mac Giolla Phádraig dynasty Upper Ossory Notes References Attribution External links The Fitzpatrick – Mac Giolla Phádraig Clan Society History Ireland: Jettisoning faith, culture and identity to serve the Crown Published letters to Barnaby Fitzpatrick from king Edward VI "It is easier to forgive and enemy than to forgive a friend": Barnaby FitzPatrick and Gaelic Collaboration with the Tudor crown c.1535-1581: By Diarmuid Wheeler (Laois Heritage Society) Jettisoning faith, culture and identity to serve the Crown: Elizabethan grant of land and title to Florence Fitzpatrick, 3rd baron of Upper Ossory, 1581 History Ireland Barnaby 1535 births 1581 deaths 16th-century Irish people People of Elizabethan Ireland People from County Offaly Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber Upper Ossory, Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 2nd Baron