Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke

Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke, 16th Mac William Íochtar (English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; died 1571) was an Irish chieftain and noble.

Richard Bourke
16th Mac William Iochtar
Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo[1]
Died1571

Ricard was the son of Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke, 13th Mac William Íochtar. He succeeded his cousin, David de Búrca, 15th Mac William Íochtar, the son of Edmond de Búrca, 12th Mac William Íochtar (d.1527). Ricard was succeeded by another cousin, Seaán mac Oliver Bourke, 17th Mac William Íochtar (d.1580).

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Genealogy edit

Mac William Íochtar Genealogy
Preceded by Mac William Iochtar
?–1571
Succeeded by

References edit

  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.

Further reading edit

  • 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).

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