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Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca

Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca

Irish chieftain, noble and 4th Mac William Íochtar (d.1458)

Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca, 4th Mac William Íochtar (died 1458) was an Irish chieftain and noble who was lord of Lower (North) Connacht, Ireland.

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Background

Edmund was the son of Thomas mac Edmond Albanach de Búrca, 2nd Mac William Íochtar (d.1402). He succeeded his brother, Walter mac Thomas de Búrca, 3rd Mac William Íochtar (d.1440), as chieftain in 1440. He was succeeded by his brother, Tomás Óg de Búrca, 5th Mac William Íochtar (d.1460).[2][3]

Annals of the Four Masters

From the Annals of the Four Masters:

  • M1446.3. O'Donnell marched with a great army into Connaught, to assist his friends; he went first to the territory of O'Rourke, and from thence through Magh-Nisse, across the Shannon, into Moylurg, through Machaire-Chonnacht, and through Clann-Conway; and Mac William came to Dunamon for him, and conducted him afterwards into Conmaicne Cuile Toladh.
  • M1458.9. Edmond Burke, Lord of the English of Connaught, and of many of the Irish of the same province, the choice of the English of Ireland for his personal shape, comeliness and stature, noble descent, hospitality, clemency, and veracity, died at the end of this year.[4]

Genealogy

Mac William Íochtar Genealogy

See also

References

Citations

  1. [1]
    Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
  2. [2]
    "Burke (de Burgh), Walter | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
  3. [3]
    Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland: IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists, A Companion to Irish History, Part II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 235–36. ISBN 978-0-19-959306-4.
  4. [4]
    Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes. Vol. 5. Translated by O'Donovan, John (1st ed.). 2016 [1851]. Retrieved 11 March 2019.

Bibliography

Preceded by Mac William Iochtar
1440–1458		 Succeeded by
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