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John Barry (1480 - 1534)

John (John Reagh) "13th Lord Barry" Barry
Born in Irelandmap
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Died at about age 54 in Irelandmap
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European Aristocracy
John Reagh Barry was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

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Biography

John, sometimes known as John Reagh, was apparently the 3rd or 4th son of the 9th Lord Barry.

Between the death of John's father (9th Lord, slain 1486) and this John (13th Lord, died 1534) the title jumped around among sons and grandsons:

  • first to the 9th Lord's eldest son Thomas (10th Lord, died 1488)
  • then to the next brother William (11th Lord, slain 1500 by brother David, Archdeacon of Cork & Cloyne)
  • then to William's son John (12th Lord, killed in 1530 by the Earl of Desmond, presumably Thomas FitzThomas, 11th Earl)
  • then back up a generation to this John (ca.1480-1534), who became 13th Lord until his death from natural causes.

Children

John had 3 sons who became:

  • John of Bowleragh, 1st Viscount Buttevant (1517-1553)
  • Edmund, 2nd Viscount, d.1556
  • James, 3rd Viscount, d.1558

"John [1st Viscount] was succeeded in turn in the viscountcy and estates by his brothers Edmond (d.1556) and James (d.1558), both of whom made settlements of their property in default of male heirs on their kinsman, James [FitzRichard] Barry (d.1581)[1] and his descendants. These settlements seem to have been made under coercion, and on the death of James Barry, the 3rd Viscount, in 1558 the viscountcy should have become extinct and the barony and estates should have passed to Edmond More Barry of Rathcoban, but this did not happen, for the estates were seized by James Barry (d.1581), who also assumed both the barony and the viscountcy."[2]

Excerpt (edited for clarity) from Barrymore: Records of the Barrys of County Cork from the Earliest to the Present Time, With Pedigrees:[3][4]

  • John Reagh Lord Barry married Ellen Fitzgibbon, daughter of the 9th White Knight of Clangibbon, and had 3 sons — John, Edmond, and James.
  • He was succeeded by the eldest son John, alias Lord Barrymore, 17th Lord of Olethan, who is mentioned in the pedigree given by Viscount Buttevant to Sir George Carew. This son was born in 1517 or 1518, not being more than 17 or 18 years old when Stevyn Ap Parry wrote to Thomas Cromwell in October 1535, as follows :
    • "Moreover there came in to my Lord James [Butler][5] one called my Lord Barrowe [= the younger John Barry], who can speak very good English, and is of not more than 17 or 18 years. He is a great inheritor, and if he had right, and laid very sore to Cormak Oge and to one Makerte Ryaghe [MacCarthy Reagh],[6] the which is son-in-law to Cormak Oge, and is my Lord of Kildare's sister's son."[7][8]

Pedigree

The Wikipedia page on the Earls of Barrymore traces the family title from Baron (created 1261) to Viscount Buttevant (created 1541) to Earl of Barrymore (created 1627).

John and his eldest son John appear as the final two of the 14 Barons, before the peerage was "upgraded" to that of Viscount Buttevant in 1541.[9]

Following are the 6 successive Viscounts Buttevant, the first 3 being brothers:

  • John FitzJohn Barry, 1st Viscount Buttevant (1517–1553)
  • Edmund FitzJohn Barry, 2nd Viscount (died 1556)
  • James FitzJohn Barry, 3rd Viscount (died 1557)
  • James Barry, 4th Viscount (c. 1520–1581), followed by son:
  • David Barry, 5th Viscount (1550-1617), followed by grandson (i.e., skipping a generation):
  • David Barry, 6th Viscount (1604–1642) (created Earl of Barrymore in 1627/28)

Sources

  1. The said James FitzRichard Barry, who became 4th Viscount Buttevant through a campaign of "exceptional violence" (see his profile), was the grandson of James Barry, Lord of Ibane, and Elane MacCarthy of Muskerry.
  2. Nicholas Kingsley, Landed families of Britain and Ireland: Earls of Barrymore, history blog, posted 1 May 2020:
  3. https://archive.org/stream/barrymorerecords00barr/barrymorerecords00barr_djvu.txt
  4. https://archive.org/details/barrymorerecords00barr/page/n5/mode/2up
  5. "Lord James Butler" possibly refers to James, soon to be 9th Earl of Ormond, who had been raised in the English Court and was a staunch ally of the Crown.
  6. This refers to Cormac "na Haoine" MacCarthy Reagh, 13th Prince of Carbery, whose wife Julia was daughter of Cormac, 9th Lord of Muskerry.
  7. Text of letter comes verbatim from the Calendar of Carew Manuscripts
  8. In the final phrase "my Lord of Kildare's sister's son," Stevyn ap Parry appears to refer to Eleanor FitzGerald, sister of Gerald (9th Earl of Kildare) and mother of Cormac, 13th Prince of Carbery.
  9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Barrymore




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