This page is an off-shoot of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project, a project launched in 2020 and directed since by Dr Loïc Guyon (Honorary Consul of France, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of French Studies at Mary Immmaculate College, Limerick) which aim is to try to locate and repatriate to Ireland the remains of Irish national hero Patrick Sarsfield. This FTDNA page was created to help identify possible genetic connections to Patrick Sarsfield. This page’s content does not form part of the official research outputs of the Sarsfield Homecoming Project itself. To find out more about the Sarsfield Homecoming Project, please visit the project’s Go Fund Me page: https://gofund.me/58f731473 Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (born c.1655 – August 1693) was an Irish soldier and leading figure in the Jacobite army during the 1689 to 1691 Williamite War in Ireland. Born into a wealthy Catholic family, Sarsfield joined a regiment recruited by James Scott, Duke of Monmouth for the 1672 to 1674 Third Anglo-Dutch War, a subsidiary of the Franco-Dutch War. After England made peace, his regiment served in the French Rhineland campaign, and when the war ended in 1678, he returned to England. Following the so-called Popish Plot, Catholics were barred from the English military, and for the next few years Sarsfield led a precarious life on the fringes of London society. When the Catholic James II came to the throne in 1685, Sarsfield served as a volunteer during Monmouth's Rebellion and was commissioned into the Royal Army. A colonel by the time of the Glorious Revolution in November 1688, he remained loyal to James and followed him into exile in France. Sarsfield returned to Ireland in March 1689 as a senior commander in the Jacobite army and was elected to the short-lived Patriot Parliament. As leader of the "War Party", by late 1690 he largely controlled Jacobite military strategy and was given the title Earl of Lucan. Their position became hopeless after Aughrim in July, and Sarsfield helped negotiate the 1691 Treaty of Limerick ending the war. It included an agreement under which thousands of Irish soldiers went into exile in France, later known as the "Flight of the Wild Geese". Many served in the Nine Years' War, including Sarsfield who was fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen in 1693.