Beauchamp Bagenal Totally Explained

Everything about Beauchamp Bagenal totally explained

Beauchamp Bagenal (1741-1802), Irish rake, buck, duellist, was born in County Carlow in 1741. He inherited the family estates aged 11. Bagenal gained a reputation as a hell raiser and serial heartbreaker, and was reportedly described as the handsomest man in Ireland. According to Jonah Barrington, on his Grand Tour, Bagenal:

fought a prince, jilted a princess, intoxicated the Doge of Venice, carried off a duchess from Madrid, scaled the walls of a convent in Lisbon and fought a duel in Paris,

The jilted Princess referred to above was Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, afterwards married to George III of England At his home, Dunleckney, Bagenalstown, County Carlow, he earned the nickname "King" Bagenal based on his lavish entertaining and the autocratic manner with which he ran what was virtually a court. Meals were "primarily drinking bouts. At table, he kept a brace of pistols handy, one for tapping the barrel of claret, the other for dealing with any of his guests who failed to drink enough to send him reeling from the table. Dinner was followed by compulsory all night revels"
   Bagenal was less violent than his later reputation. There is no proof that he shot all, or even many, of his guest. He fought as few as a dozen duels, a derisory number compared to the great duellists of his day. One of the twelve was against his own cousin, Bagenal Hervey. Hervey shot first, but missed, to Bagenal's delight. "You damn you villain? Do you know you'd like to kill your own godfather? Go back to Dunleckney, you dog, and have a good breakfast ready for us. I only wanted to see if you were stout."
   A number of other anecdotes of Bagenal's wildness and eccentricity exist.
   Bagenal was lame, and therefore, when fighting had to lean against a tombstone.

Further Information

Get more info on 'Beauchamp Bagenal'.

External Link Exchanges

Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:

<a href="http://beauchamp_bagenal.totallyexplained.com">Beauchamp Bagenal Totally Explained</a>

Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned.