Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca

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.

Edmund de Búrca 4th Mac William Iochtar
Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo
Died	1458

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).

Annalistic references

• 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.

Genealogy

Mac William Íochtar Genealogy

• Sir Edmond Albanach de Burgh (d. 1375), 1st Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William), (Mayo)
  • William de Burgh (d.1368)
  • Thomas mac Edmond Albanach de Búrca, 1375–1402, 2nd Mac William Íochtar
    • Walter mac Thomas de Búrca (d.1440), 3rd Mac William Íochtar
      • Theobald Bourke (d.1503), 8th Mac William Íochtar
        • Meiler Bourke (d.1520), 11th Mac William Íochtar
      • Ricard Bourke (d.1509), 9th Mac William Íochtar
        • Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke (alive 1527), 13th Mac William Íochtar
          • Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke (d.1571), 16th Mac William Íochtar
    • Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca, (d.1458), 4th Mac William Íochtar
      • Ricard Ó Cuairsge Bourke (d.1473), 7th Mac William Íochtar
        • Edmond de Búrca (d.1527), 10th Mac William Íochtar
        • Walter de Búrca
        • Seaán de Búrca
          • Oliver de Búrca
            • Seaán mac Oliver Bourke (d.1580), 17th Mac William Íochtar
            • Richard Bourke (d.1586), 19th Mac William Íochtar
              • Walter Ciotach de Búrca of Belleek (d.1590)
                • Tibbot (Theobald) MacWalter Kittagh Bourke, 21st Mac William Íochtar, 1st Marquess of Mayo
                  • Walter (Balthasar) Bourke, 2nd Marquess of Mayo
      • Thomas Ruadh de Búrca
      • Uilleag de Búrca
        • Edmond de Búrca (d.1527), 12th Mac William Íochtar
          • David de Búrca (alive 1537), 15th Mac William Íochtar
            • Richard the Iron Bourke (d.1583), 18th Mac William Íochtar
              • Tibbot (Theobald) ne Long Bourke (1567-1629), 23rd Mac William Íochtar, 1st Viscount Mayo (1627)
                • Viscounts Mayo
            • William "the Blind Abbot" Bourke (d.1593), 20th Mac William Íochtar
        • Theobald mac Uilleag Bourke (d.1537), 14th Mac William Íochtar
        • Risdeárd de Búrca
          • Ricard Deamhan an Chorráin de Búrca
            • Risdeárd Mac Deamhan an Chorráin (Richard) "the Devils Hook" Bourke (d.1601), 22nd Mac William Íochtar
    • Seaán de Búrca (d.1456)
    • Tomás Óg de Búrca, (d.1460), 5th Mac William Íochtar
    • Risdeárd de Búrca (d.1473), 6th Mac William Íochtar

Further reading

• The History of Mayo, Hubert T. Knox. 1908.
• Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, in A New History of Ireland IX, pp. 235–36, Oxford, 1984 (reprinted 2002).

External links

• * http://www.ucc.ie/celt/published/T100005D/