Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameDavid Óg DE BARRY 1st Lord Barry, 20G Grandfather
FatherSir David Mór DE BARRY (-1261)
MotherMabel LE BOTILLER
Web Notes notes for David Óg DE BARRY 1st Lord Barry
Ancestor of Barrys Mor and Barrys Ruadh
Lord Barry, Barrymore, or Buttevant
This is one of the Irish Peerages by prescription, i.e., Peerages which were recognized in 1489 by Henry VII but of the date or mode of whose creation nothing certain is known. Its existence as the premier Barony was acknowledged in 1489, 1490, 1541, 1560, and 1585.40
Son and heir, called David Oge [junior], and Anbuille [i.e. of the blows]. He was Lord Justiciar of Ireland 1267. According to a grotesquely untrue statement in Lodge, he "was styled the 1st Viscount of Buttevant" [see Annals of the Four Masters] He may perhaps be regarded as the first of his family to obtain the status of a Peer as Lord Barry, Barrymore, or Buttevant, although any date given for the origin of early prescriptive Irish titles such as this must be in the nature of guess work. He died in 1278. The name of Buttevant is said to have been derived from the war cry "Boutez en avant," used in a victory over the MacCarthies near that place, about 1267, gained by David de Barry, and ever after adopted as a motto by his descendants. Although as an Irish chieftain he was much more likely to be acquainted with Norman French than with English, it is not easy to accept this derivation.40
Walter de Burgh, by his marriage with the heiress of de Lacy, had been created Earl of Ulster. At this time he was the head of the great house of the De Burghs, and to such a pitch had arrived the feud between them and the Geraldines that, at a meeting during 1264 at Castle Dermond, Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, assisted by John FitzThomas, afterwards Earl of Kildare, audaciously seized on the persons of the Lord Justice, Richard de Capella, Richard de Burgh, heir apparent of Ulster, of Theobald le Butler, and one of two other great partisans of the family of the de Burghs, and committed them to prison in the castles of Ley and Dunamaise. At length the attention of Henry III was drawn to the disturbed state of his Irish dominions. A Parliament was held at Kilkenny, by whose advice the prisoners detained by the Geraldines were released; and the king, recalling the present Lord Justice, appointed in his place David Barry of the noble family of Barrymore who, curbing the insolent ambition of the Geraldines, restored peace between the two rival houses.41
SIR DAVID FITZ JOHN DE BARRY, 4th Lord Olethan. Was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland in 1267 and created LORD BUTTEVANT September 10, 1273, being designated as a *rich and noble baron*. He was buried in 1278 at Buttevant where his tomb still remains in the Choir opposite the Altar. Historians have frequently confuse him with his uncle the Barrach Mor,
because of the similarity of their Christian names.
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 I, page 437. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 451.
Lord Barry, Barrymore, or Buttevant
This is one of the Irish Peerages by prescription, i.e., Peerages which were recognized in 1489 by Henry VII but of the date or mode of whose creation nothing certain is known. Its existence as the premier Barony was acknowledged in 1489, 1490, 1541, 1560, and 1585.40
Son and heir, called David Oge [junior], and Anbuille [i.e. of the blows]. He was Lord Justiciar of Ireland 1267. According to a grotesquely untrue statement in Lodge, he "was styled the 1st Viscount of Buttevant" [see Annals of the Four Masters] He may perhaps be regarded as the first of his family to obtain the status of a Peer as Lord Barry, Barrymore, or Buttevant, although any date given for the origin of early prescriptive Irish titles such as this must be in the nature of guess work. He died in 1278. The name of Buttevant is said to have been derived from the war cry "Boutez en avant," used in a victory over the MacCarthies near that place, about 1267, gained by David de Barry, and ever after adopted as a motto by his descendants. Although as an Irish chieftain he was much more likely to be acquainted with Norman French than with English, it is not easy to accept this derivation.40
Walter de Burgh, by his marriage with the heiress of de Lacy, had been created Earl of Ulster. At this time he was the head of the great house of the De Burghs, and to such a pitch had arrived the feud between them and the Geraldines that, at a meeting during 1264 at Castle Dermond, Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, assisted by John FitzThomas, afterwards Earl of Kildare, audaciously seized on the persons of the Lord Justice, Richard de Capella, Richard de Burgh, heir apparent of Ulster, of Theobald le Butler, and one of two other great partisans of the family of the de Burghs, and committed them to prison in the castles of Ley and Dunamaise. At length the attention of Henry III was drawn to the disturbed state of his Irish dominions. A Parliament was held at Kilkenny, by whose advice the prisoners detained by the Geraldines were released; and the king, recalling the present Lord Justice, appointed in his place David Barry of the noble family of Barrymore who, curbing the insolent ambition of the Geraldines, restored peace between the two rival houses.41
SIR DAVID FITZ JOHN DE BARRY, 4th Lord Olethan. Was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland in 1267 and created LORD BUTTEVANT September 10, 1273, being designated as a *rich and noble baron*. He was buried in 1278 at Buttevant where his tomb still remains in the Choir opposite the Altar. Historians have frequently confuse him with his uncle the Barrach Mor,
because of the similarity of their Christian names.
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 I, page 437. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 451.