Patrick "Carroll" Carroll

Charles Patrick Carroll is the scion of a prominent Templar family and has the role of Galahad in the Round Table Group. As expected of as one of his prestigious line, he acquired anima powers during adolescence.

Charles Patrick Carroll, American Templar
(Séarlas Pádraig Ó Cearbhail)

Patrick was always destined for greatness, atleast he has always heard that since as far back as he can remember. A favored son of good breeding in the large Roman Catholic Carroll family, Patrick has been groomed for his role since birth. To understand Patrick, one must know his family.

“In fide et in bello forte”
“Strong in faith and war”

In the Carroll family flows the blood of kings. They’ll always be sure to tell you that. In 212 A.D. Teige, son of Cian was king of Éile Uí Cearbhail (Ely O'Carroll). The name Cearbhaill literally translates to “Champion Warrior”. Éile was was an ancient and medieval kingdom of northern Munster in Ireland. It is said the Cearbhails were early converts to Christianity. After 431 A.D. the Caerbhails were assisting Palladius (the first Bishop of Ireland) in suppressing the Pelagian heresy. From about 370 A.D. to about 1101 A.D. it is found in the Book of Rights that the Kings of Caiseal (Cashel) paid tribute to the Kings of Éile. Some family legends claim that one of the princes Éile visited the court of King Arthur and stayed on as a Knight of the Round Table.


 * ''Lords to whom stoop the nuts,
 * ''Are the O'Carrolls of the Plain of Birra
 * ''Their head is King of Ely to sweet Bloyma
 * The most hospitable habitation in Ireland.
 * Giolla na Naomh O'Heerin

The historical territory of Éile consisted of the pasture lands of Ballycrinass, Rosscullenagh and Drumcan, extending to the Lake of Leghagh, commonly Laghaghirisallive and bounded on the west by the lands called Laghenagarken and on the east adjoining or near to Glencrokin. This was always known as Ely O'Carroll. The mountain land extended from the Laghanagerah (Lochan na gCaorach) to Polle Dowa (Poll Dubh in Roscomroe) and then in a south easterly direction to the Slieve Bloom Mountains (map), which are the limits between Ely O'Carroll and Upper Ossary meeting at a village called Garryvoe or Scully's land. The Slieve Bloom Mountains are the oldest mountains of Europe. The Caerbhail’s lands extended from Kilkenny city northwards to the boundary of the present county of Leix. Ely O'Carroll originally belonged to Munster, but is now located in County Offaly in the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt. The boundary between Ely O'Carroll and the ancient Kingdom of Mide is co-terminous with the present boundary between the diocese of Killaloe and the diocese of Meath. That portion of County Offaly which belongs to the diocese of Killaloe was Ely O'Carroll and originally belonged to Munster. Their castle, originally "The Black Tower" was replaced by Castle Birr in Parsonstown, in the King's County.

Teige or Thatheus O'Cearbhuill, King of Eile, who caused the Book of Dimma to be gilt, died about the middle of the 12th century and was succeeded by his son.

During the Crusades, the Caerbhails joined with the Knights Hospitaller and the family has long remained loyal to the order.
 * “It was Nicholas Breakspear, the English pope who reigned as Pope Hadrian IV (1154 – 59), who gave papal sanction to the commencement of the long, fractious and generally tormented relationship between Ireland and England. In 1156 he granted Henry II the papal bull Laudabiliter, authorising the king to take control of Ireland in order to reform what was perceived as the permissive and still partly tribal Irish Church.” A few years later, a significant number of Knights Hospitaller were included in the Norman invasion as a matter of “religious necessity”, and not long afterwards the Irish Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem was founded.
 * Niall Byrne KM, "A History of the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar, and the Knights of Malta, in the South-East of Ireland"432px-Hospitalers.svg.png

Fionn, King of Ely who died 1205 A.D. was succeeded by his son Teige (yes, another Teige), and that succession continued through his grandson Dónal Dhearg (the Red) of Litterluna as Chiefs of Éile until the Chiefship transferred to the rival branch in descent of Fionn's other grandson Maolruanaidh ( Mulroona) of which this elected Chief's name was also Teige (yes, another Teige). He married Joan, daughter of James Butler, the Second Earl of Oremonde, who was the great grandson of English King Edward I. Teige later married Morew, daughter of Brian O'Brien, King of Thomond. It was this same Teige that went on a pilgrimage to Rome, and on his return, visited the courts of King Richard II, and the King of France. While at court with King Richard of England, he and Teige had a falling out and disagreed about certain political decisions. Teige returned back to southern Ireland to await King Richard's army which was threatening to invade the Kingdom of Éile.

In 1395 A.D. Teige (Yes, another Teige) Ó Cearbhail and Clan Cian (race of Carroll) defeated the forces of King Richard II which had invaded Éile, under the command of Roger Mortimer, Earl of March. The Kingdom of Éile and the Ó Cearbhails had withstood the most powerful army in the world, and repelled them out of their territory.

Teige Caoc (yes, another Teige) was created Lord Baron of Ely in 1442 A.D. upon surrendering his principality of Ely O'Carroll to King Edward IV of England. The kingdom of Ely continued until 1590 A.D. To understand why the Ó Cearbhail’s lost their lands, one must understand the fall of Catholicism in England.

The O'Carrolls lost their power after 1590, but remained in influential and powerful positions for many years to come. Teige Caoc (yes, another Teige) was created Lord Baron of Ely in 1452 A.D. upon surrendering his principality of Ely O'Carroll to King Edward IV of England. The title has not been assumed by the family since the reign of Queen Mary. However, the O’Carrolls were not done yet with their thirst for power.

Léim Uí Bhanáin
Leap Castle is a castle in County Offaly, Ireland, about four miles north of the town of Roscrea on the R421. It was built in the late 15th century by the O'Bannon family and was originally called "Léim Uí Bhanáin", or "Leap of the O'Bannons". The O'Bannons were the "secondary chieftains" of the territory, and were subject to the ruling O'Carroll clan. The Annals of the Four Masters record that the Earl of Kildare, Gerald FitzGerald, tried unsuccessfully to seize the castle in 1514. It was attacked for a second time in 1516. Kildare partially lost the use of his limbs and his speech, in consequence of a gunshot wound received in an attack upon the O'Carrolls at Birr.

Following the death of Mulrooney O'Carroll in 1532, family struggles plagued the O'Carroll clan. A fierce rivalry for the leadership erupted within the family. The bitter fight for power turned brother against brother. One of the brothers was a priest. The O'Carroll priest was holding mass for a group of his family (in what is now called the "Bloody Chapel"). While he was chanting the holy rites, his rival brother--"One-Eyed" Teige (yes another Teige) O'Carroll burst into the chapel, plunged his sword into his brother and fatally wounded him. The butchered priest fell across the altar and died in front of his family.

In 1558 the castle was deliberately set on fire and ruined to prevent it being captured by Elizabethan forces, who decided to occupy the castle anyway. It was recaptured by the O'Carrolls less than a year later.


 * ''In one corner of this room may be found a secret dungeon (oubliette) into which unwary prisoners were dropped through a trap door and left to rot if they hadn't already been skewered on the spike protruding from the floor. Apparently, there were several cartloads of bones removed from here after the house was destroyed by fire in 1922.


 * ''There is supposedly a network of dungeons carved out of the rock below the keep with secret chambers and bricked up areas and human remains have also been discovered there.


 * ''Many visitors to this site have spoken of feelings of real terror and a sense of evil in some places and others have related encounters with a ghostly Lady in a red gown. The most terrifying of all reports is that of a small hunched creature which has appeared from time to time accompanied by the stench of a rotting corpse and the smell of sulphur. The creature is referred to as the "It" or the "Elemental". In 1659 AD ownership of Leap Castle passed through marriage from the O'Carroll family to the Darbys, an English family.  At that time, the occult was the fashion of the day, and Mildred Darby did some innocent dabbling, despite the castle's history and reputation for being haunted. Mildred's dabbling with magic is thought to have been what might have awakened 'elemental'! In 1909, Mildred wrote an article for the Journal Occult Review, in which she described her petrifying ordeal.


 * '' "I was standing in the Gallery looking down at the main floor, when I felt somebody put a hand on my shoulder. The thing was about the size of a sheep. Thin gaunting shadowy..., it's face was human, to be more accurate inhuman. Its lust in its eyes which seemed half decomposed in black cavities stared into mine. The horrible smell one hundred times intensified came up into my face, giving me a deadly nausea. It was the smell of a decomposing corpse."
 * Haunted Castles of Ireland


 * ''The elemental is thought to be a primitive ghost that attaches itself to a particular place. It is often malevolent, terrifying and unpredictable. After Mrs. Darby's experiments in the black arts, Leap Castle has never been the same. Haunting plague Leap leaving a sinister air throughout the castle. The Darbys remained at Leap until 1922. Being the home of an English family, it became the target of the Irish struggle for independence. Destroyed by bombs, completely looted, nothing but a burned out shell remained. The Darby's were driven out.


 * ''In the 1970's Leap Castle was purchased by an Australian, who had a white witch brought in from Mexico to exorcise the castle. She spent many hours in the bloody chapel, when she emerged she explained that the spirits at Leap Castle were no longer malevolent, but they wished to remain.
 * Castle Ghosts of Ireland, Haunted Britain & Ireland


 * ''"The thing was about the size of a sheep, thin, gaunt and shadow in parts. Its face was human, or to be more accurate, inhuman, in its vileness, with large holes of blackness for eyes, loose slobbery lips, and a thick saliva dripping jaw, sloping back suddenly into its neck.  Nose it had none, only spreading cancerous cavities, the whole face being a uniform tint of grey.  This too was the colour of the dark coarse hair covering its head, neck and body.  Its fore arms were thickly coated with the same hair, so were its paws, large loose and handshaped and as it sat on its hind legs, one hand or paw was raised, and a claw like finger was extended ready to scratch the paint.  Its lustreless eyes, which seemed half decomposed in black activities, and looked incredibly foul, stared into mine, and the horrible smell which had before offended my nostrils, only a hundred times intensified, came up into my face, filling me with a deadly nausea.  I noticed the lower half of the creature was indefinite and seemed semi-transparent at least, I could see the framework of the door that led into the gallery through its body."
 * Account of Mrs. Jonathan Darby

Video from "Most Haunted" about the most haunted castle in Europe--Leap

More details of Leap Castle at "The Standing Stone"

“Ad maiorem Dei gloriam”
"for the greater glory of God"

In 1534 King Henry VIII separated the English Church from Rome, a matter of great concern not just to English Catholics, but to Irish Catholics like the O’Carrolls as well.

With long ties to the Catholic Church, the O’Carrolls took special interest in the formation of the Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu)--the Jesuits--in 1534. Ignatius of Loyola was a Basque knight who had been wounded and found a calling within the Catholic Church. By 1540, Ignatius had created a monarchical organization and stressed absolute self-abnegation and obedience to Pope and superiors (perinde ac cadaver, "well-disciplined like a corpse" as Ignatius put it). As a new order of militant clergy, the O’Carrolls found in the Jesuits some kindred spirits. It is rumored that a Teige O’Carroll met with Ignatius of Loyola and made a secret pact tying the O’Carroll family to the Jesuit order, forever. Over the years, many sons of the O’Carrolls have joined the order.

In 1553, Queen Mary came to reign over English throne. She immediately restored Roman Catholicism and revived the Heresy Acts. Under the Heresy Acts, numerous Protestants were executed in the Marian Persecutions. It was these actions that gained her the title “Bloody Mary”. After Queen Mary’s death in 1558, Queen Elizabeth ascended to the throne and re-established the Church of England.

In 1569, there was a major Catholic uprising against Queen Elizabeth in an attempt to put Mary Queen of Scots upon the throne. Pope Pius V issued a bull in 1570, titled “Regnans in Excelsis”, which declared "Elizabeth, the pretended Queen of England and the servant of crime" to be excommunicate and a heretic, releasing all her subjects from any allegiance to her. Catholics who obeyed her orders were threatened with excommunication.The papal bull provoked legislative initiatives against Catholics by Parliament, which were however mitigated by Elizabeth's intervention. In 1581, to convert English subjects to Catholicism with "the intent" to withdraw them from their allegiance to Elizabeth was made a treasonable offence, carrying the death penalty. From the 1570s missionary priests from continental seminaries came to England secretly in the cause of the "reconversion of England". Many suffered execution, engendering a cult of martyrdom.

Irish population adhered to Catholicism and was willing to defy Queen Elizabeth’s authority and plot with her enemies. Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England. In the course of a series of uprisings, Crown forces pursued scorched-earth tactics, burning the land and slaughtering man, woman and child. During a revolt in Munster led by Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond (the son of James FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, by his second wife Móre O'Carroll), in 1582, an estimated 30,000 Irish people starved to death. The poet and colonist Edmund Spenser wrote that the victims "were brought to such wretchedness as that any stony heart would have rued the same". It was in these struggles against Queen Elizabeth that the O’Carrolls lost their ancestral lands.

"Remember, remember, the fifth of November"
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot

In 1584, the Jesuit William Weston returned to England where he set up a secret Jesuit Mission. Along with Jesuit Henry Garet, a secret press was established to spread Catholicsm. It is rumored that the O’Carrolls contributed funds to this endeavor. Weston led a group Exorcists, which included a layman--a Patrick O’Carroll. O’Carroll was a solider who had fought in the forces of Gerald FitzGerald. After their defeat, he brought his sword to the aid of Jesuits banishing demons. In 1586, the Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth was revealed--along with the involvement of the Jesuit John Ballard. Ballard had masqueraded as a swashbuckling, courtly soldier called Captain Fortescue--referred to by those who were unaware of his true identity as 'Black Foskew'. Ballard was executed. The crown moved against the exorcists led by Weston, arresting and imprisoning them. In 1588, the exorcists were moved to confinement in Wisbech Castle.

In 1594, Sir Walter Raleigh heard of a "City of Gold" in South America and sailed to find it. In building his expedition to El Dorado, he had Patrick O’Carroll released to his custody as he was in need of swordsmen who did not fear demons. After the adventures there, when O’Carroll was officially pardoned when he returned in 1596 with Raleigh. In 1599, Weston and the other exorcists were imprisoned in the Tower of London until he was exiled to Spain in 1603.

With the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, King James came to power. It was hoped that he would bring about change and loosen restrictions upon Catholics; King James quickly asserted that status quote by maintaining Elizabeth’s privy councillers. Plots against the King were hatched, including the Bye Plot involving Jesuits priests planning to kidnap the king. The plot was convoluted and when exposed also involved Sir Walter Raleigh. As an Irish catholic in league with the Jesuit exorcists and a former swordarm for Sir Walter Raleigh--Patrick O’Carroll was suspected of involvement. He went into hiding. By an edict of 22 February 1604, King James ordered all Roman Catholic clergy ("Jesuits, Seminaries and other Priests") to leave his kingdom by 19 March.

In response, Robert Catesby an English Catholic plotted to bring down the King. The plan of the Gunpowder Plot was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of England's Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the prelude to a popular revolt in the Midlands during which James's nine-year-old daughter, Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed as the Catholic head of state. Catesby may have embarked on the scheme after hopes of securing greater religious tolerance under King James had faded, leaving many English Catholics disappointed. The plot was exposed, many conspirators fled and those that did not were killed. Details of the assassination attempt were allegedly known by the principal Jesuit of England, Father Henry Garnet. It is rumored that Patrick O’Carroll was also involved and he fled to Ireland.

The Monita Secreta, also known as the "Secret Instructions of the Jesuits" was published (1612) in Kraków, and is alternately alleged to have been written by either Claudio Acquaviva, the fifth general of the society, or by Jerome Zahorowski. The document appears to lay down the methods to be adopted for the acquisition of greater power and influence for the order and for the Roman Catholic Church. While it is a forgery, in the secret world, it based on the actual conspiratorial politics Jesuits in general, the O’Carrolls in particular.

“Ubicumque cum libertate”
“Anywhere so long as there be freedom”

In 1622, Daniel Teige Carroll builds Ballymooney Castle.

In 1625, King James I dies; and the throne passes to King Charles I. Charles tolerates Catholicism more and marries a Catholic princess. By 1632, Charles I grants charter for the colony of Maryland as a home for English Catholics in the new world to Cæcilius Calvert (Cecil), 2nd Baron Baltimore in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1634 a settlement established at St. Mary's on land purchased from the Yaocomaco. Among the settlers is a Jesuit Missionary Father Andrew White--the Apostle of Maryland. By 1637, the Jesuits Thomas Copley and Ferdinand Poulton join the colony, and between 1634 and 1650 there averaged four permanent Jesuits in the Maryland Colony. Cecil Calvert’s father, George Calvert, had attempted to establish a similar colony named Avalon in Newfoundand in 1623.

The Carrolls participated in the Irish Rebellion of 1641,an attempted a coup d'état by Irish Catholic gentry, who tried to seize control of the English administration in Ireland to force concessions for the Catholics living under English rule. The rising was sparked by Catholic fears of an impending invasion of Ireland by anti-Catholic forces of the English Long Parliament and the Scottish Covenanters, who were defying the authority of the King Charles I. In turn, the rebels' suspected association with the King of England, Scotland and Ireland, Charles I, helped to spark the outbreak of the English Civil War. The English and Scottish Parliaments refused to raise an army to put down the rebellion unless it was under their command rather than the King's. Largely because King Charles is seen as tolerant of Catholicism, the English Civil War breaks out. The nobility support the King as his royalist "cavaliers" with catholic nobles being particularly zealous. The Carrolls, ofcourse, were cavaliers. Irish Catholic Confederation (Confederation of Kilkenny) ruled Ireland autonomously from 1641 to 1652 with the blessing of the Vatican.

In 1644 and 1645, in February, Richard Ingle returned to Maryland with the ship Reformation and attacked the Maryland colony in the name of Parliament. He attacked the settlement of St. Mary's and imprisoned leaders of the colony. Royalist proprietary governor Leonard Calvert fled to Virginia. Ingle took control of the Maryland government. Under Ingle's leadership, his men looted property of wealthy Roman Catholic settlers. Ingle claimed that he had letter of marque to cruise in the waters of Shesapeake (Chesapeake Bay) and the permission of a new government in England. Local settlers regarded him as a pirate. He put two Jesuit priests (Andrew White and Thomas Copley) to chains and transported them back to England. The events are known as the "Claiborne and Ingle's rebellion". Governor Calvert returned in August 1646 and reestablished his control. Though most of his men were granted amnesty, Ingle was specifically excepted from it and executed.

In 1649, King Charles I is executed for Treason and the Interregnum begins under Oliver Cromwell. Roger O'Carroll had attached himself to the party of Charles 1st and was deprived of his estate by Cromwell and the O'Carroll castles fell wholesale into the hands of the soldiers of Cromwell. Twenty one O'Carroll castles came under the control of Cromwell; many were plundered and destroyed including Fortal, Loretto and Ballyknocken. The Carrolls are involved in resisting Cromwell's forces in the Seige of Drogheda during Cromwell's conquest of Ireland.


 * ''"Throughout the confusing intervals of conflict and negotiation in the late 1640s, Daniel Carroll (of Ballymooney) remained active in the confederate struggle. Even after Cromwell's devastating conquest and the surrender of the main Catholic command, he and Richard Grace refused to submit, choosing instead to fight on with the partisans who still controlled the mountains and bogs of the midlands... by the end of the century, that act of loyalty had impoverished them and brought them to the brink of extinction."
 * Ronald Hoffman, "Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782"

Daniel Teige Carroll of Ballymooney dies in 1641, and the Carrolls are dispossessed of Castle Ballymooney. In 1642, a grandson is born to Daniel Teige Carroll of Ballymooney--Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty and Littermurna (c. 1642–1688). Aghagurty in Gaelic is the "field of hunger." Some of the family property near Aghagurty was obtained by his cousin--Richard Grace, who made Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty the head tenant. This action gave the family a livelihood, but the family continued to have limited means compared to their former status.

Virginia makes the practice of Anglicanism mandatory. In response, the colony of Maryland passes the religious Toleration Act. Puritans flee Virginia for Maryland. Puritans found Providence (later Annapolis). In 1650, the Puritans revolt against the government and outlaw Catholicism and Anglicanism. All the original Catholic churches of southern Maryland are burnt down. In 1650, the Anglican minister [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brooke,_Sr. Robert Brooke] immigrated to Maryland, in 1652 the Cromwellian parliament appointed him Governor for several months. Brooke and his son Thomas would later convert to Catholicism.

In 1654, the 2nd Lord Baltimore, Cecilius Calvert, sends a Roman Catholic army under the command of Governor William Stone to put down the Puritan revolt. The Puritans defeat Stone's army near Annapolis in the Battle of the Severn. Trying again in 1658, Calvert family regains control of Maryland, suppressing the Puritan rebellion. They reinstitute the religious Toleration Act.

In 1658, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brooke,_Sr. Major Thomas Brooke]--now a Catholic--marries Eleanor Hatten. In 1663, Eleanor Hatten Brooke gives birth to Robert Brooke, first of three brothers--Ignautius (1670), Matthew (1672)--all become Jesuits.

Then in 1660, The Restoration returns King Charles II to England. In 1661, Charles Carroll is born in Ireland as third son of Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty, he is named after both the executed King Charles I and the restored King Charles II. Charles brothers are Anthony (the eldest), Thomas and John (the youngest). The Carrolls had established themselves as clients of the Calverts.


 * ''"Charles Caroll not only attended institution in France that ostensibly demanded far greater resoruces than those available to a head tenant, studying humanities and philosophy at Lille and civil and canon law at the University of Douai, but he also enrolled exclusively in institutions operated by the Society of Jesus... since the Old English strongly preferred the Jesuits, whereas the Gaelic Irish favored Dominicans and Franciscans... Charles and his descendants maintaining a firm attachment to the Jesuits"
 * Hoffman, "Princes of Ireland..."

In 1678, Titus Oates after having studied with the Jesuits revealed a Popish Plot to assassinate King Charles II. More than sixteen Catholics were executed for participation in the plot. By 1681, however, the courts reverse their opinion claiming that Oates had fabricated the plot, who was in turned subsequently charges with perjury and sedition. When James II came to the throne, he had Oates tried again and sentenced to being "whipped through the streets of London five days a year for the remainder of his life." King James II had converted to Catholicism in the early 1670s and regularly attended mass. He instituted further religious liberty for English Catholics.

Henry Darnall, from a prominent English Catholic family, arrived in Maryland in 1680. Darnall was strongly allied to the proprietarial interest of Charles Calvert, who had married Darnall's cousin. This alliance brought Darnall wealth and power, as he rapidly acquired both land and political office from his cousin's accommodating husband. Darnall's colonial appointments included Deputy Governor and Colonel of the Militia. Darnall also marries Eleanor Hatten Brooke (widow of Major Thomas Brooke).

In 1688 King James II was deposed by William of Orange. Catholics were repressed. William of Orange even had Titus Oates pardoned and placed on a pension. Those wishing to restore James II to the throne became known as Jacobites. The Williamite War spread to Ireland. Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty would also die in the year of 1688.

In October 1688, Charles Carroll the Settler arrived in Maryland as Attorney General. En route, Carroll changed his family motto from "In fide et in bello forte" to "Ubicumque cum libertate" ("anywhere so long as there be freedom"). John Carroll Carroll, Charles’ brother, also immigrates to Maryland; as does his cousin Daniel Carroll. Charles Carroll serves under Deputy Governor Colonel Henry Darnall. In 1689 the Protestant Revolution in Maryland is led by John Coode. Darnall maintains secret catholic chapel on his estate.

Kilkenny, long a city near the Carroll's lands, is known as a Jacobite stronghold. Among the Carrolls who remained behind in Ireland, they fought for the Jacobite cause. In 1690, Colonel Francis Carroll was a Royal Irish Dragoon Commander. Lieutenant colonel "Black Tom" Thomas Carroll (first son of Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty) served in Colonel Francis' command at the Battle of Boyne and died on the battlefield, becoming a legend still told to this day by the people of the Slieve Blooom Mountains. Terence Carroll was a Major in Colonel Francis' Regiment. James Carroll, was a Captain in Lord Dongan's Regiment of Dragoons. Others like Anthony Carroll (second son of Daniel Carroll of Aghagurty) and his son Daniel survived Boyne and continued to serve as officers until the bitter end in Siege of Limerick. After the Treaty of Limerick in 1691, Colonel Francis Carroll volunteered for service of France in the celebrated Irish Brigade as part of the "Flight of the Wild Geese". He was killed in the Battle of Marsaglia, in Italy, in 1693.



“Marylando-Hibernus”
In 1693, Charles Carroll the Settler married the 15 year old daughter of Henry Darnall--Mary Darnall. In 1702, Mary Darnall Carroll gives birth to a son, Charles Carroll (of Annapolis). In 1704, the Act to Prevent Popery in Province banned Catholics from political office in Maryland. With Catholics disenfranchised and barred from political office, Jesuits gave mass in secret. Henry Darnall died in 1711. Carroll took over Darnall's positions as agent and receiver general for the Calvert family in the colony, both posts with significant additional salaries. Among the many uses to which he put this money was lending. After 1713, he became the largest mortgage lender in the colony, and made a number of large personal loans to other planters. His speculation in mercantile enterprises also continued. Together, these made Carroll the wealthiest man in the colony by 1715, and its most prominent Catholic. It should be noted that despite being a pious Catholic layman, this did not stop him from becoming wealthy through usury and slavery; and his son Charles Carroll of Annapolis followed in his footsteps. After 1715 thanks to Jesuit, Young Lord Baltimore converts to Catholicism. Charles Carroll (of Annapolis) would study at the Jesuit Colleges of St. Omer--where he would sign his thesis "Marylando-Hibernus".

The Sacred Heart Church is the oldest Catholic Church still standing in the United States. The original patent to the "White Marsh" property was granted by the authority of Charles Calvert II in 1722 to James Carroll, cousin of Charles Carroll of Annapolis. On February 12, 1728, Carroll bequeathed 2,000 acres of White Marsh, then known as Carroll's Burgh, to the Jesuits at St. Thomas Manor in the vicinity of Port Tobacco, Maryland. During this time, while Catholics could not worship publicly, they could do so privately and were able to build private chapels on privately held land. To facilitate the construction of a church, Carroll left the land to the individual Jesuits--in this case George Thorold. That allowed them to construct the Mission of Saint Francis Borgia (yes, those Borgia; he was great-grandson of Pope Alexander VI/Roderic Llançol i de Borja. Yes, he was Superior General of the Jesuits) on the property, which is considered the founding of Sacred Heart Church. However, the Jesuits did not take up permanent residence at White Marsh until about 1741, when a chapel was constructed.

Being the largest landholder in Maryland, it is Charles Carroll who sold the land which would eventually become Baltimore city in 1729.

Princeps
The First Citizen, the First Archbishop and the First Commissioner

Charles Carroll the Barrister was descendant of the last Gaelic Lords of Éile in Ireland and was born in Annapolis, Maryland in 1723. Daniel Carroll II(1730) and his brother John Carroll(1735) are born on the Carroll plantation--Darnall's Chance in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. They are the sons of Daniel Carroll of Ireland and Eleanor Darnall Carroll (another daughter of Henry Darnall and Elanor Hatton Brooke Darnall). In 1737, Charles Carroll (of Carrollton) is born to Charles Carroll of Annapolis and Elizabeth Brooke Carroll; He is educated as most Carrolls are in a secret Jesuit preparatory school known as Bohemia Manor in Cecil County, Maryland. In 1742, Daniel Carroll II studies at the Jesuit College of St. Omer in French Flanders. In 1748, Charles Carroll of Carrollton attends St. Omer. In 1753, John Carroll also studies at St. Omer.

During the Mid-1700s, Many settlers came from Pennsylvania, and servants, felons, and Jacobite rebels numbered heavily among the eighteenth-century emigrants from Britain, with the Jacobites sold as laborers..

In 1761, Henry Darnall III is accused of embezzling nearly to 1,000 pounds in his position as Naval Officer. He, along with his principal heir, Henry Darnall IV mortgage Poplar Hill to Charles Carroll of Annapolis before fleeing the colony for Europe to avoid being placed on trial. Henry Darnall IV is later reported to have been executed in Canada for also having committed some crime. Henry Darnall IV's wife, Rachel Brooke Darnall, and their daughter, Mary (known as Molly Darnall), went to live in the home of Charles Carroll of Annapolis. Rachel was Mrs. Carroll's faithful attendant in her last illness and Molly Darnall (great grand daughter of Henry Darnall) later became the wife of Charles Carroll of Carrollton.

In 1767, Settlement between Maryland and Pennsylvania is reached, with the Mason-Dixon Line becoming the border. Centuries later, Thomas Pychon’s novel “Mason-Dixon” explains the Jesuit conspiracies at work in the establishment of that state boundary.

In 1768, Charles Carroll of Carrollton marries "Molly" Mary Darnall (great grand daughter of Henry Darnall; daughter of Henry Darnall IV. He is Charles' second cousin). They will have seven children, three of which survive.

1769 John Carroll ordained as a priest and remains in Liège in 1769. Then in 1773, the Pope Suppresses the Society of Jesus and John Carroll returns to Maryland.

Charles Carroll of Carrollton wrote revolutionary articles under the pen name "First Citizen". Between 1774 and 1786, Annapolis became central to the U.S. revolutionary war. Charles Carroll the Barrister joined the Committee of Correspondence in 1774, and the Committee of Safety in 1775. He presided over several sessions of the Convention, which was the early revolutionary government in Maryland. It serves as the capital of the United States (1783-1784) and hosts two continental conventions. In 1775 Charles Carroll of Homewood (son of Charles Carroll of Annapolis) is born. Then on July 4, 1776 Charles Carroll of Carrollton signs the Declaration of Independence (in the Secret World, this was rumored to be a compromise between the Illuminati to allow atleast one prominent and well entrenched family of Templars in the United States.)  Later in November 1776, the Convention sent Charles Carroll the Barrister as a delegate to the Continental Congress to replace his cousin, Charles Carroll of Carrollton. The Barrister declined appointment to the position first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, but later was elected to the State Senate in Maryland.

Daniel Carroll II was a member of the Continental Congress (1781-1783), and a signer of the Articles of Confederation. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and one of only two Catholic signers of the United States Constitution. At the Constitutional Convention, Daniel Carroll played an essential role in formulating the limitation of the powers of the federal government. He was the author of the presumption — enshrined in the Constitution — that powers not specifically delegated to the federal government were reserved to the states or to the people. Daniel Carroll later became a member of the first United States Congress (1789-1791). He was also a member of the first Senate of Maryland, where he served up to the time of his death. He was appointed by Washington as one of the first three commissioners of the new federal city that is now known as the District of Columbia. In today's terminology, he would have been considered the mayor of Washington, D.C.

Charles Carroll of Annapolis, the wealthiest man in Maryland dies at the age of 80 in 1782. Charles Carroll of Carrollton inherits his estate.

After the American revolution, Catholics in the newly created United States enjoyed freedom to worship. The Jesuit Fathers, led by John Carroll and five other priests, began a series of secret meetings at White Marsh at the Sacred Heart Church beginning on 27 June, 1783 called the General Chapters that organized the Catholic Church in the United States. They held a second meeting 6 November, 1783, and a third on 11 October, 1784, at the same place, when they formulated the draft of the regulations binding all the clergy of Maryland. It was decided at these meetings every priest was maintained and given thirty pounds a year, and each priest agreed to offer ten Masses for every priest who died there. It was at this same meeting that those assembled voted John Carroll's name to be included in a petition sent to the Pope requesting Carroll's appointment to an office that ultimately resulted in Carroll becoming the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.

Then in 1789-1800 with the passage of the Bill of Rights ensured separation of Church & State and Freedom of Religion. Catholicism was legalized. John Carroll became Bishop of Baltimore. He begins the construction of the Baltimore Basilica in 1806. Carroll becomes Archbishop in 1808.

In 1789, Georgetown University was founded by John Carroll. America's first Catholic bishop, realized efforts to establish a Roman Catholic college in the province of Maryland that were repeatedly thwarted by religious persecution. Jesuits have participated in the university's administration since 1805, a heritage Georgetown celebrates, but the university has always been governed independently of the Society of Jesus and of church authorities--supposedly.

July 4, 1828: Charles Carroll of Carrollton laid the corner stone for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. In 1830, John Lee Carroll (son of Colonel Charles Carroll V of Doughoregan) was born Baltimore. In 1831, Thomas King Carroll was Governor of Maryland.

In 1832, Charles Carroll of Carrollton died at the age of 95. He was the longest lived and oldest surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence. His funeral took place at the Baltimore Cathedral (now known as the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) in Baltimore, and he is buried in his Doughoregan Manor Chapel at Ellicott City, Maryland. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the richest man of the fledgingly United States of America; and he came by his money the old fashioned way--inheritance, slavery, usury and diversification of his finances into new industries like the Baltimore Iron Works and the B&O Railroad. His family remains wealthy to this very day.

Cousin Against Cousin
In 1861, James Ryder Randall writes the pro-confederacy poem "Maryland, My Maryland". Charles Carroll of Carrollton is remembered in the third stanza of the poem.


 * ''“Thou wilt not cower in the dust,
 * ''(Maryland!)
 * ''Thy beaming sword shall never rust,
 * ''(Maryland!)
 * ''Remember Carroll's sacred trust,
 * ''Remember Howard's warlike thrust,
 * ''-And all thy slumberers with the just,
 * Maryland! My Maryland!”

The Carrolls were divided by the civil war, with cousin against cousin. Slaves were still kept at Doughoregan Manor during the lead up to the war. Colonel Charles Carroll V of Doughoregan's will had specific provisions regarding slaves. Anna Ella "Hancock" Carroll, daughter of Thomas King Carroll, freed her slaves immediately after Lincoln was elected President--she would become an advisor to the President. The most famous Carroll soldier of the war was brigadier general Samuel Spring "Red" Carroll of the famed Gibraltar Brigade. Red saw action at the Battles of Gettysburg, Cross Keys, Cedar Point, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness and Spotsylvania. He was wounded four times and had an arm amputated before retiring as Major General. Robert Goodloe Harper Carroll, son of Colonel Charles Carroll V of Doughoregan would fight as cavalry for confederacy as part of the Howard County Dragoons (called the Carroll Dragoons when they were under the command of Colonel Carroll). Harper's brother Albert Henry Carroll was killed while fighting for the Confederate army.

The Carroll family’s drive for political power continued on through 1876 when John Lee Carroll became Governor of Maryland. During the Great Railroad Strike of 1877--John Lee Carroll called up the state militia and federal troops to suppress the strike. John Lee Carroll died in 1911 at the age of eighty. He had ten children. Two of his daughters married into French nobility--part of the trend of Carrolls continuing to marry titled nobility.

For further reading on the Carrolls of Maryland, see Garret Power's Calvert vs Carroll: The Quit-rent Controversy between Maryland's Founding Familiesand Ronald Hoffman's Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782

Carrolls Today
Gerald Carroll, once owned the third largest private business in Britain, valued at a half billion pounds. He and his Carroll Foundation Trust are now bankrupt from the "biggest criminal fraud heist in British history."

These are estimated to be over 6,000 Carroll households in Ireland and ten times that number in the United States. There are over 800 households with the Carroll surname in Maryland; Carrolls are also to be found in Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, South Africa and continental Europe.



"Emitte Spiritum Tuum"
"Send forth Your Spirit"



And now that brings us to the latest in a long line of Carrolls... Charles Patrick Carroll--hailing back to Charles Carroll of Carrollton. He grew up on the family estate of Doughoregan Manor in Howard County Maryland, near Ellicott City. The family has quipped that "Only God, the Indians and the Carrolls have owned this land". He attended services at the private chapel on the estate going to the Baltimore Basilica (the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) for larger services. He attended high school at Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, Maryland where he also distinguished himself on the school’s varsity fencing team--the Crusaders. He earned a Bachelor of the Arts with Major in Classics at Loyola University of Maryland. Later he graduated with a Masters of Theology from Loyola University of Maryland. Officially, he is working on his field research for a Doctorate of History with Georgetown University. Unofficially, he serves in the Templars against the terrors of the night. It is a Georgetown where he first made contact with the Knights of the Round Table that had their modern headquarters in Washington, D.C.

''Werewolves with a Cauldron?

He also became a Knight of Obedience of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta--the modern incarnation of the Knights Hospitaller. Through his connection with the Knights of Malta, he has trained with the likes of Blackwater Worldwide mercenary company (no, really). This was partially facilitated by Carroll’s quiet membership in Communion and Liberation.

Carroll has little intention of joining the clergy at this point in his life. Instead, he seems himself as a devout lay member of the church, literally wielding a sword in it’s defense against diabolical forces. His family’s ties to the Templars stretch back so far into antiquity as to be legend.

Carroll also knows that he has the burden to pass on the family blood to future descendants so that the special gifts granted to his family by God might yet perceive to hold demons at bay. So in addition to his quests against the unholy he must also search for a woman of good breeding to be his wife; and until then remains chaste so as not to spill his sacred duty.

His personality seems to waver between being a carefree dilettante and a severely pious and somewhat pedantic scholar of esoteric religious occultism. Sometimes it seems that the weight and obligation of his birthright is to much for the young man to bear upon his shoulders, but it is the only life he has ever known. Sometimes he is unsure what are his own thoughts and what are those which have been imprinted upon him by his family and their millennia of ruthless service to the church.

He recently has requested to take on the role of Galahad in the Knights of the Round Table.

The Round Table
Patrick Carroll was recruited into the Round Table Group by Aidan "Bleddyn" Percy (Percival). His religious zeal quickly had him placed in the role of Sir Galahad. Percy and Carroll quickly developed a friendship. There are other members of the Round Table Group he seems less personable with, particularly Kerri Ceridwen "Wyrde" Awen (Bercilak the Green Knight) whom he seems to trade insults with during their constant bickering.

After the mysterious disappearance of Jacqueline "Jacky" Boulogne (Arthur), the Round Table Group began to fragment. The cabal stopped meeting. These days, Percival doesn't even seem to contact Galahad anymore.

Soundtrack

 * Oakenshield - "Eibhli Gheal Chiúin Ni Chearbhaill" (Bright Quiet Eily O'Carroll)
 * Johnny Cash - "When the Man Comes Around"
 * Depeche Mode - "Personal Jesus"
 * Laibach - "God is God"
 * VNV Nation - "Testament"
 * Juno Reactor - "God is God"
 * Dead Can Dance - "Host of the Seraphim"