Cormac Laidir Oge MacCarthy, 10th Lord of Muskerry

Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy, 10th Lord of Muskerry (1447–1536) was an Irish chieftain, styled Lord of Muskerry. In 1520 he defeated James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond in the battle of Mourne Abbey.

Cormac Oge Laidir MacCarthy
Lord of Muskerry
Tenure	1494–1536
Successor	Teige, 11th Lord of Muskerry
Born	1447
Died	1536
Buried	Kilcrea Friary
Spouse(s)	Catherine Barry
Issue Detail	Teige & others
Father	Cormac Laidir, 9th Lord of Muskerry

Birth and origins

Family tree

Cormac Laidir MacCarty with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.^[a] Cormac 2nd Lord d. 1374 Teige 6th Lord 1380–1448 Owen 7th Lord Cormac 8th Lord Cormac Laidir 9th Lord 1411–1494 Mary Fitzmaurice Owen MacCarthy d. 1498 Cormac Oge Laidir 10th Lord 1447–1536 Catherine Barry Teige 11th Lord 1472–1565 Callaghan 12th Lord Mary d. 1548 James 12th Earl d. 1540 Court Page Dermot 13th Lord 1501–1570 Ellen FitzGerald Cormac 14th Lord d. 1583 tanist Callaghan 15th Lord tanist resigned 1584 Cormac MacDermot 16th Lord 1552–1616 Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Lords & Viscounts Muskerry & Earls of Clancarty XXX Earls of Desmond

Cormac was born in 1447,^[4] most likely at Kilcrea Castle, residence of his parents. He was the son of Cormac Laidir MacCarthy and his wife Mary Fitzmaurice. His father was the 9th Lord of Muskerry. His father's family were the MacCarthys of Muskerry,^[5] a Gaelic Irish dynasty that had branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line in the 14th century^[6][7][8] when a younger son received Muskerry as appanage.^[9]

His mother was a daughter of Edmund Fitzmaurice, 8th Baron of Kerry, also called Baron Lixnaw instead of Baron Kerry.

Marriage and children

MacCarthy married Catherine, daughter of John Barry, 1st Viscount Buttevant.^[10]

Cormac and Catherine had five sons:^[11]

1. Teige (1472–1565), his successor
2. Diarmaid
3. Eoghan
4. Callaghan (Ceallachan)
5. Cormac

—and two daughters:

1. Mary, married James FitzGerald, de jure 12th Earl of Desmond, called "Court Page"^[12][13]
2. Julia, married three times.^[14] First Gerald Fitzmaurice, 15th Baron Kerry (died 1550), secondly Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh (1490–1567), and thirdly Edmund Butler, 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne (died 1566)^[15]

10th Lord of Muskerry

MacCarthy's father was killed in 1495^[16] by his brother Owen, MacCarthy's uncle, who usurped the lordship. In 1498 MacCarthy, with help from Thomas FitzThomas FitzGerald, future 11th Earl of Desmond, killed Owen.^[17] The succession was however denied to him by Cormac, another uncle, for three more years until he succeeded in deposing Cormac in 1501 and eventually acceded as 10th Lord of Muskerry. These two uncles are not counted as lords of Muskerry.

Battle of Mourne

In September 1520 Muskerry and Donal MacCarthy Reagh helped Thomas FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Desmond, defeat James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond in the battle of Mourne.^[18][19] Donal MacCarthy Reagh had married Muskerry's sister Ellen.

In December, together with Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, they besieged James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, in Dungarvan.^[20]

Death

Muskerry died in 1536 at Kilcrea Castle and was buried in the friary.^[21][22][23]

Notes and references

Notes

1. This family tree is based on a tree of the Lords of Muskerry,^[1] and on genealogies of the MacCarthys of Muskerry family.^[2][3] Also see the list of children in the text.

Citations

1. Gillman 1892, fold-out.
2. Lainé 1836, pp. 74–78Genealogy of the MacCarthy of Muskerry family
3. O'Hart 1892, pp. 122–125. Genealogy of the MacCarthys of Muskerry
4. O'Hart 1892, p. 122, right column, last line. "120. Cormac Oge, lord of Muscry: son of Cormac Laidir; b. A.D. 1447; d. in 1537; buried at Kilcrea ..."
5. Gibson 1861, p. 84, line 9. "There were at this time four distinct chieftainships of the Mac Carthys; the Mac Carthys Mor, or lords of Desmond, and their off-shoots, namely, the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery, the Donough Mac Carthys of Duhallow, and the Mac Carthys of Muskerry."
6. O'Hart 1892, p. 122, left column. "116. Dermod Mór: son of Cormac Mór, Prince of Desmond; b. 1310; created by the English in A.D. 1353, 'Lord of Muskerry' ..."
7. O'Hart 1892, p. 112, right column. "115. Cormac MacCarthy Mór, Prince of Desmond: his son; b. 1271; d. 1359."
8. O'Hart 1892, p. 122, top. "Cormac MacCarty Mor, Prince of Desmond (see the MacCarty Mór Stem, No. 115,) had a second son, Dermod Mór, of Muscry (now Muskerry) who was the ancestor of MacCarthy, lords of Muscry and earls of Clan Carthy."
9. Lainé 1836, p. 72. "Dermod-Môr, Mac-Carthy, fils puiné de Cormac-Môr, prince de Desmond et d'Honoria Fitz-Maurice, eut en apanage la baronnie de Muskery ..."
10. McCormack 2009a, Last paragraph, 1st sentence. "He married Catherine Barry, daughter of John, Lord Barry."
11. McCormack 2009a, Last paragraph, 2nd sentence. "They had at least five sons – Tadhg, who succeeded as 10th lord of Muskerry, Diarmaid, Eoghan, Ceallachan, and Cormac."
12. McCormack 2009a, 2nd paragraph. "He [Thomas fitz Thomas] thus sought to continue the alliance with Cormac by arranging for his heir James to marry Cormac's daughter Mary."
13. McCormack 2009c, last paragraph, last sentence. "His wife, Mary, married secondly Daniel O'Sullivan Mor, and died in 1548."
14. Lainé 1836, p. 73:"Shely or Julia Mac-Carthy, mariée 1e à Gerald Fitz-Maurice, 15e lord de Kerry (Lodge, t. II, p. 190); 2e avec Cormac Mac-Carthy-Reagh, seigneur de Kilbritton; 3e avec Edmond Butler, lord Dunboyne (Lodge)."
15. Cokayne 1916, p. 516, line 14. "He [Dunboyne] m. [married], before 1551, Cecilia or Gille, da. [daughter] of Cormac Oge Macarty, of Muskerry."
16. McCormack 2009a, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence. "Within six years of his father's death (1495) ..."
17. McCormack 2004, p. 102, left column, line 24. "In 1498, Cormac Oge killed his uncle Éoghan MacCarthy, lord of Muskerry, who three years earlier had killed his father and taken over the lordship."
18. Burke 1883, p. 344, right column, line 5. "He defeated the Earl of Desmond in the battle of Cluhar and Morne Abbey in 1521."
19. McCormack 2009a, 1st paragraph. "In September 1520, at the battle of Mourne, co. Cork, Cormac assisting Thomas fitz Thomas in his bid for the earldom of Desmond, helped to inflict a heavy defeat on James fitz Maurice, now the 11th earl."
20. McCormack 2009b, 1st paragraph. "... in December Thomas, again with the help of Cormac Óg Láidir, joined with Piers Butler, earl of Ossory, in besieging him in Dungarvan, co. Waterford."
21. Archbold 1893, p. 435, right column, line 26. "He died in 1536 and was buried in Kilcrea."
22. O'Donovan 1856, p. 1425. "Cormac Oge, the son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Carthy, the choice of the Irish of Leagh-Mhogha, died [in 1536], after having gained the victory over the devil and the world, and was interred at Kilcrea."
23. Windele 1839, p. 223, line 9. "Besides this prince, the following lords of Muskerry, were buried here,—viz. Cormac Og Laidir, son of the founder, in 1536; Teig, son of Cormac Og, in 1565; Dermot, son of Teig, in 1570; and Cormac, who had been some time a Protestant, in 1616."

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