David Barry (1550 - abt. 1617)

Born 1550 in Ireland

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Died about 10 Apr 1617 at about age 67 in Cork, Ireland

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David Barry was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

David Fitz-James de Barry, 18th Baron Barry, 5th Viscount Buttevant was born in 1550. He was the son of James Fitz Richard Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant and Ellen MacCarthy.

Before October 1593 he married 1) Ellen Roche, younger daughter of David, 5th Viscount Roche of Fermoy and Ellen Butler, of the Dunboyne Butlers, with whom he had a son and 5 daughters.

He married 2) Sheelagh, daughter of Cormac MacDermot MacCarthy, Lord of Muscry, with whom he had 3 sons and 4 daughters.^[1]

David Barry died at Barryscourt on 10 April 1617.^[2] County Cork, Ireland. His children from both marriages included:

1. Margaret Barry m(1) Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy, (2) Robert Dillon, 2nd Earl of Roscommon
2. Ellen Barry m. Sir John Fitzgerald of Cloyne and Ballymaloe^[3][4][5]
3. Helen Barry m.(1) her distant Barry cousin John 'Oge' Power, (2) in 1601, Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde (3) in 1631, Thomas Somerset, 1st Viscount Somerset
4. David Fitz-David Barry (d.c 1604) m. Elizabeth Power, daughter of Richard, 4th Baron Power, their son was David Barry 1st Earl of Barrymore^[6]
5. Lady Honora Barry m.(1) Gerald FitzGerald, 6th Lord Decies^[7]; (2) Patrick Browne
6. Mary^[8] m. James Tobin, son of Thomas Tobin of Compsey
7. Lady Catherine Barry m. Richard Burke

"David joined the Earl of Desmond's revolt against the Crown in 1593 but abandoned the rebel cause in 1599 and secured a pardon in 1602 on payment of a fine of £500. He thereafter remained loyal to the Crown and was indeed trusted and encouraged by King James I. His eldest son [also David] died in 1604/5, and it was therefore a posthumous grandson, David Barry (1605-42), who inherited the title and estates in 1617."^[9]

Sources

• David Barry has a detailed profile in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, which calls him "second son of James Fitz-Richard Barry Roe, Lord of Ibawne, and his wife Ellen (Eileen), daughter of Cormac MacCarthy Reagh":
  • https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a0437

• Barrymores of County Cork:
  • https://archive.org/details/barrymorerecords00barr/page/n5/mode/2up
  • https://archive.org/stream/barrymorerecords00barr/barrymorerecords00barr_djvu.txt

• The Peerage, accessed 24 Oct 2015.

1. ↑ Profile of Sir Cormac MacCarthy in the Dictionary of Irish Biography:
   • https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a5123
2. ↑ Also known as Barryscourt Castle, seat of the Barry family from the 12th to the 17th centuries. The website "Irish Castles" provides a modern photograph and a map pinpointing the castle's location in Carrigtwohill, east of the city of Cork:
   • https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/482993
3. ↑ John FitzGerald of Ballymaloe was the son of devoted loyalist Sir John FitzEdmund FitzGerald, Dean of Cloyne, Sheriff of Cork (1528-1612), and his wife Honor O'Brien (niece of the Earl of Thomond) via their son Edmund, who married the widow of another John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald (ca.1540-1589), seneschal of Imokilly and a noted Irish rebel during the Desmond Rebellions.
4. ↑ For more information on these 2 men named John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald, see Library Ireland:
   • John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald (1528-1612), Dean of Cloyne, Sheriff of Cork, loyal to the English crown, knighted :
     • https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/SirJohnFitzEdmundFitzGerald.php
   • John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald (ca.1540-1589), Seneschal of Imokilly, noted rebel and participant in the Desmond Rebellions:
     • https://www.libraryireland.com/biography/JohnFitzEdmundFitzGerald.php
5. ↑ Note: Ellen Barry apparently died quite young, as Sir John Fitzgerald later married Honora, only daughter of "arch-traitor" James FitzMaurice Fitzgerald.
   • Hervey de Montmorency-Morres, Genealogical Memoir of the Family of Montmorency, 592 pages, published 1817, ISBN 134133841X, p.66:
     • https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DSwAAAAAQAAJ&dq
     • https://archive.org/details/genealogicalmem00morrgoog/page/n476/mode/2up
6. ↑ Wikipedia: David Barry, 1st Earl of Barrymore
7. ↑ Gerald was the son of James FitzGerald, 5th Lord Decies
8. ↑ She is named as "Mary" in a family genealogy starting with James' father Thomas Tobin and continuing for 7 generations; viewable online in Funeral Certificates, and Draft Grants D, from the Genealogical Office of the National Library of Ireland. See p.29:
   • http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000510970#page/30/mode/1up
9. ↑ Nicholas Kingsley, Landed families of Britain and Ireland: Earls of Barrymore, history blog, posted 1 May 2020:
   • https://landedfamilies.blogspot.com/2020/05/415-barry-of-castle-lyons-and-anngrove.html

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