John (Cogan) de Cogan (abt. 1220 - abt. 1278)

Born about 1220 in Cogan, Glamor, Wales

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John (Cogan) de Cogan was born in Wales.

John de COGAN.^[1]

John de Cogan was a 13th C. Anglo-Irish knight, the son of Richard Cogan and Basilie De Riddlesford, and grandson of Milo de Cogan and Christina Pagnel ^{[2] [3]}

He is first mentioned in 1235 in association with Maurice Fitzgerald, on a mission to subjugate Connacht with Richard Mor De Burgh, Hugh De Lacy and Walter de Ridelsford.

His lands were located in County Galway and County Mayo.

With the patronage of Richard de Burgh in the second half of the 13th century, John de Cogan founded an abbey for the Carthusian Order at Kilnalahan, in Galway. ^[4]

He was also the founder of Claregalway friary. ^[5]

Huntspill Manor in Somerset was also passed on to John de Cogan, as the grandson of Fulk (II) Pagnell.^[6]

On the death of his father-in-law, Gerald Prendergast, in 1261, he inherited some of his estates in right of his wife, Marie de Prendergast, older half-sister of Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly.

In 1263 he was involved in a land dispute between Walter, Earl of Ulster, and Maurice FitzGerald.

He held land in Logan, Wales at the time of his death in 1278 ^[7]

Children -

• Basillia
• Juliane
• John

Sources

1. ↑ WikiTree profile Cogan-87 created through the import of Cogan Moore Stiles Wiley_2011-07-09.ged on Jul 9, 2011 by Eileen Cogan, plus Ellen Blackwell.
2. ↑ Family relationships shown by Beth Hartland; available in Thirteenth Century England X: Proceedings of the Durham Conference 2003 p: 124 English Land Holdings in Ireland by Beth Hartland - Eds: Michael Prestwich, R. H. Britnell, Robin Frame pub: Boydell Press, 2005
3. ↑ Wikipedia : John de Cogan
4. ↑ [https://abbey.galwaycommunityheritage.org/content/places/history-kilnalahan Abbey and District Heritage : A Brief History of Kilnalahan]
5. ↑ Monastic Ireland : Claregalway Franciscan Friary
6. ↑ British History Online, Huntspill, accessed 2 Jul 2020.
7. ↑ An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan : Later Castles from 1217 to the present Volume III - Part 1b: Medieval Secular Monuments page 473 pub: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales, 2000