James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

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James de Barry
Viscount Buttevant
Tenure1561–1581
Predecessor
SuccessorDavid Barry, 5th Viscount
Born1520
Died10 April 1581
Dublin Castle
Spouse(s)Ellen MacCarthy
Issue
Detail		David & others
FatherRichard de Barry
MotherIsabel FitzGerald
Carbery in Tudor times

James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant and 17th Baron Barry (1520–1581) was an Irish magnate. He joined the rebels in the Desmond rebellion.

Birth and origins[]

James was born in 1520, probably at Rathbarry in Barryroe barony, eldest son of Richard de Barry and Isabel FitzGerald. His father was a son of James de Barry, Lord of Ibane, and his wife Elane MacCarthy of Muskerry. His full name, inclusive the patronymic, therefore was James FitzRichard de Barry.

His mother was a daughter of Sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, who was a son of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare.

Family tree
James de Barry with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a]
Richard
de Barry		Isabel
FitzGerald
James
de Barry
4th Viscount
1520–1581		Ellen
MacCarthy		David
5th Viscount
Fermoy
d. 1582
David
5th Viscount
c. 1550 – 1617		Ellen
Roche		Richard
Power
4th Baron
David de Barry
d. 1604
d.v.p.*		Elizabeth
Power		Richard
1st Earl
Cork
1566–1643
David Barry
1st Earl
Barrymore
1604–1642		Alice
Boyle
Legend
XXXSubject of
the article		XXXViscounts Buttevant
and Earls of Barrymore		XXX
*d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

Marriage and children[]

Barry married Ellen (also called Ilene), an illegitimate daughter of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 13th Prince of Carbery. This was a very good marriage for his branche of the Barry dynasty.

The marriage to Lady Ellen proved especially successful for Barry, allowing his branch of the family, Barry Roe, to claim the titles from the formerly leading branch. From this marriage would descend the Earls of Barrymore.

James and Ellen had five sons:[2]

  1. Richard (died 1622), born deaf and dumb, was passed over in the succession and died unmarried.[3][4]
  2. David (died 1617), the second son, succeeded as the 5th Viscount
  3. William Barry, of Lislee.[5]
  4. Edmund Barry, married Eleanora, daughter of James Butler, Baron Dunboyne.[6]
  5. John Barry (died 1627)

—and five daughters,[2] of which four are known by name:

  1. Joan, maried David Roche, 7th Viscount Fermoy[7][8]
  2. Honora, married Patrick Condon[9]
  3. Eleanor, married Sir Owen O'Sullivan, knight[10]
  4. Ilane, maried Callaghan MacTeighe MacCarthy of Muskerry[11]

In 1570 Buttevant received a lease, to hold for twenty-one years, of "the site of the house of the friars at Killnamullagh, alias Buttevante, County Cork, with its appurtenances at an annual rent of 16 shillings and 8 pence".

At the outbreak of the Desmond Rebellions, Viscount Buttevant joined the rebels and in the subsequent confiscations of his estates, the friary in Buttevant, together with its glebe, passed into the hands of the poet, Edmund Spenser.

Death[]

He died on 10 April 1581.[12][13]

Notes, citations, and sources[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ This family tree is based on genealogies of the de Barrys.[1]

Citations[]

  1. ^ Cokayne 1910, pp. 435–447.
  2. ^ a b Barry 1902, p. 99, line 31: "James FitzRichard Viscount Buttevant had five sons and five daughters by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Cormac na haoine McCarthy Reagh."
  3. ^ Burke 1866, p. 24, right column, line 88: "Richard, Viscount Buttevant, deaf and dumb, d.s.p. [died without issue]."
  4. ^ Barry 1902, p. 99, line 33: "1. Richard who being deaf and dumb, was superseded in titles and estates by his next brother, David, und died unmarried at Liscaroll, 24th April 1622 ..."
  5. ^ Burke 1866, p. 24, right column, line 90: "William, of Lislee, whose grandson, William Barry, forfeited his estate temp. Cromwell ..."
  6. ^ Barry 1902, p. 105, pedigree: "Edmund Barry, Esq., fourth son.=Eleanora, daughter of James Butler, Baron Dunboyne."
  7. ^ Barry 1902, p. 109, line 15: "Johannes, wife of David, Lord Roche;"
  8. ^ Dunlop & Cunningham 2004, p. 460, left column: "Roche married, before 1593, Joan daughter of James FitzRichard Barry, Viscount Buttevant, and his wife, Ellen MacCarthy Reagh."
  9. ^ Barry 1902, p. 109, line 13: "In a pedigree of A.D. 1615, the daughters of James FitzRichrd Viscount Buttevant are Honoria; wife of Patrick Condon;"
  10. ^ Barry 1902, p. 109, line 14: "Ellinor, wife of Sir Owen O'Sullivan, knt.;"
  11. ^ Barry 1902, p. 109, line 16: "Ilane, wife of Callaghan MacTeighe MacCarthy of Muskerry;"
  12. ^ Cokayne 1910, p. 442, line 16: "James FitzRichard, Viscount Buttevant, thus treacheroussly seized and imprisoned in Dublin Castle, died there on 10 April 1581 ..."
  13. ^ Barry 1902, p. 99: "James FitzRichard Viscount Buttevant had five sons and five daughters by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Cormac na haoine McCarthy Reagh."

Sources[]

  • Barry, E. (1902). Barrymore: Records of the Barrys of County Cork. Cork: Guy and Co.
  • Cokayne, George Edward (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 1 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Ab-Adam to Basing (for Barry)
  • Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348.
  • Dunlop, Robert; Cunningham, Bernadette (2004). "Roche, David, seventh viscount Roche of Fermoy (1573?–1635)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 47. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-19-861397-0.
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 Viscount Buttevant
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