Richard (Le Poer) Power (abt. 1495 - 1538)

Born about 1495 in Curraghmore, Waterford, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Catherine (Butler) FitzGerald — married about 1520 (to before 1539) in Ireland

Descendants

Died 10 Nov 1538 at about age 43 in Waterford, Munster, Ireland

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Biography

Richard Power, 1st Baron le Power and Coroghmore was the son of Sir Piers Poer (Piers Power) and Catherine FitzGerald ^[1] of Decies, County Waterford.

Sir Richard Power, Knight, was in the year 1535 created by Letters Patent of King Henry VIII. Baron of Le Power and Coroghmore, in the Peerage of Ireland ^[2]

High Sheriff of County Waterford in 1535.^[3]

Richard married Lady Katherine Butler, daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde and Lady Margaret FitzGerald ^[4]. Their children included:

• Piers Power, 2nd Baron le Power and Coroghmore, b. 1522, d.1545 unmarried^[5][6]

• John Power, 3rd Baron le Power and Coroghmore

• Thomas Power (born ca. 1530), also known as "Thomas of Culefin", married Joan Tobin, daughter of Thomas Tobin, Lord of Compshinagh (Compsy) and they had at least 7 children.^[7]. Thomas died on 10 Oct 1564.^[8]

• Katherine Power

• Ellice Power, who married Sir Thomas FitzJames Fitzgerald, self-styled Earl of Desmond^[9][10]

• Margaret Power

• Ellen Power

Besides his 3 legitimate sons, Richard had 2 illegitimate sons, Edmund and Nicholas.^[11]:

• Edmund Power, the elder of the two illegitimate sons of Richard, Lord Power, was the last Abbot of Mothel, County Waterford, at the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540.

• Nicholas Power, the younger of the two, married, according to Carew Manuscripts 635, a daughter of Thomas Tobin^[12] of the Comshie, County Tipperary, and had issue:
  • Walter Power, of Lismuen [?], County Waterford
  • Morrice (Maurice)
  • William
  • Nicholas

Richard was killed 10th November 1538, by Connor O'Callaghan, while intervening in the issue of the succession of the Earldom of Desmond.^[13]

Sources

• The Complete Peerage : Sir Richard Power Edition 1, Volume 6 page 286

• Gabriel O'C. Redmond, Historical memoir of the family of Poher, Poer, or Power; with an account of the barony of Le Power and Coroghmore, county Waterford, by (Dublin 1891):
  • https://archive.org/stream/historicalmemoir00redm/historicalmemoir00redm_djvu.txt

• The Peerage : Richard Power 1st Baron le Power and Coroghmore #198991 Citing - [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume X, page 626. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage. / [S37] BP2003 volume 3, page 4085. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37] / [S47] BIFR1976 page 345. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S47] / [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume X, page 625. / [S37] BP2003. [S37]

• John Lodge, Mervyn Archdall. The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of That Kingdom, Volume 2, (published by J. Moore, 1789), p.305, searchable online here:
  • https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HEsTAAAAYAAJ&dq

• Irish historian Turtle Bunbury's look at the Norman origins of the Le Poer family, as well as key players in Ireland throughout the centuries:
  • https://www.turtlebunbury.com/history/history_family/hist_family_delapoer.html

1. ↑ The Peerage : Richard Power 1st Baron le Power and Coroghmore #198991
2. ↑ Hansard : Lords Report BARONY OF LE POWER AND COROGHAIORE - Deb 09 March 1922 vol 49 cc462-3
3. ↑ Wikipedia, referencing Burke's Peerage:
   • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Sheriff_of_County_Waterford
4. ↑ The Peerage : Richard Power 1st Baron le Power and Coroghmore #198991
5. ↑ The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of That Kingdom, Volume 2, (published by J. Moore, 1789), p.305
6. ↑ "Piers Power ... was colonel-in-chief of the 700 men sent from Ireland, who served King Henry VIII in such good stead at the siege of Boulogne, for which he was dubbed Knight, 1544 (Hollinshed, p.311). He died, unmarried, on the 16th Oct. 1545, and was buried in the Abbey of Mothel [Co. Waterford]."
   • Gabriel O'C. Redmond, Historical memoir of the family of Poher, Poer, or Power; with an account of the barony of Le Power and Coroghmore, County Waterford (Dublin 1891). p.24:
     • https://archive.org/details/historicalmemoir00redm/page/n49/mode/2up?q=coolfin
7. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p19033.htm#i190325
8. ↑ http://www.thepeerage.com/p20627.htm
9. ↑ The Peerage of Ireland: Or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of That Kingdom, Volume 2, (published by J. Moore, 1789), p.305
10. ↑ Context: Thomas was the elder half-brother of Gerald, who became 15th Earl of Desmond in 1558. However, Thomas was passed over for the title due to the annulment (consanguinity) of his parents' marriage.
11. ↑ Gabriel O'C. Redmond, Historical memoir of the family of Poher, Poer, or Power; with an account of the barony of Le Power and Coroghmore, County Waterford (Dublin 1891). p.24:
    • https://archive.org/details/historicalmemoir00redm/page/n49/mode/2up?q=coolfin
12. ↑ According to his profile on The Peerage, Nicholas married Margaret Tobin. He died ca.1570 and she remarried and died before 1582. Therefore half-brothers Nicholas & Thomas Power married Tobin sisters Margaret & Joan.
13. ↑ The Peerage : Richard Power 1st Baron le Power and Coroghmore #198991