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.
Birth and origins
Family tree
Cormac Laidir MacCarty with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a]
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.
Muskerry died in 1536 at Kilcrea Castle and was buried in the friary.[21][22][23]
Notes and references
Notes
^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.
^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."
^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' ..."
^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."
^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 ..."
^McCormack 2009a, Last paragraph, 1st sentence. "He married Catherine Barry, daughter of John, Lord Barry."
^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."
^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."
^McCormack 2009c, last paragraph, last sentence. "His wife, Mary, married secondly Daniel O'Sullivan Mor, and died in 1548."
^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)."
^Cokayne 1916, p.
516, line 14. "He [Dunboyne] m. [married], before 1551, Cecilia or Gille, da. [daughter] of Cormac Oge Macarty, of Muskerry."
^McCormack 2009a, 1st paragraph, 2nd sentence. "Within six years of his father's death (1495) ..."
^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."
^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."
^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."
^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."
^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."
Lainé, P. Louis (1836).
"Mac-Carthy". Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France [Genealogical and Historical Archives of the Nobility of France] (in French). Vol. Tome cinquième. Paris: Imprimerie de Bethune et Plon. pp. 1–102.
OCLC865941166.