James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant and 17th Baron Barry (1520–1581) was an Irish magnate. He joined the rebels in the Desmond Rebellion and died in captivity at Dublin Castle.

James de Barry
Viscount Buttevant
Tenure	1561–1581
Predecessor	James Barry, 3rd Viscount
Successor	David Barry, 5th Viscount
Born	1520
Died	10 April 1581 Dublin Castle
Spouse(s)	Ellen MacCarthy Reagh
Issue Detail	David & others
Father	Richard de Barry
Mother	Isabel FitzGerald

Birth and origins

James was born in 1520, probably at Rathbarry in Barryroe barony, eldest son of Richard de Barry and Isabel FitzGerald. His father was a son of James de Barry, Lord of Ibane, and his wife Elane MacCarthy of Muskerry. James's full name, inclusive of the patronymic, therefore was James FitzRichard de Barry.

His mother was a daughter of Sir James FitzGerald of Leixlip, a younger son of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare.

Family tree

James de Barry with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a] Richard de Barry Isabel FitzGerald James de Barry 4th Viscount Buttevant 1520–1581 Ellen MacCarthy David 5th Viscount Fermoy d. 1582 David 5th Viscount c. 1550 – 1617 Ellen Roche Richard Power 4th Baron David de Barry d. 1604 d.v.p.* Elizabeth Power Richard 1st Earl Cork 1566–1643 David Barry 1st Earl Barrymore 1604–1642 Alice Boyle Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Viscounts Buttevant and Earls of Barrymore XXX Viscounts Fermoy *d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

Carbery in Tudor times

Marriage and children

Before 1550 Barry married Ellen (also called Ilene), an illegitimate daughter of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 13th Prince of Carbery. This was a very good marriage for him, as a member of a cadet branch of the Barry dynasty.^[2]

James and Ellen had five sons:^[3]

1. Richard (died 1622), born deaf and dumb, was passed over in the succession and died unmarried.^[4][5]
2. David (1550–1617), the second son, succeeded as the 5th Viscount^[6]
3. William Barry, of Lislee.^[7]
4. Edmund Barry, married Eleanora, daughter of James Butler, Baron Dunboyne.^[8]
5. John Barry (died 1627)

—and five daughters,^[3] of which four are known by name:

1. Joan, married David Roche, 7th Viscount Fermoy^[9][10]
2. Honora, married Patrick Condon^[11]
3. Eleanor, married Sir Owen O'Sullivan, knight^[12]
4. Ilane, married Callaghan MacTeighe MacCarthy of Muskerry^[13]

Viscount Buttevant, later life, and death

His predecessor in the viscountcy, James Fitz John Barry, died childless in 1558. Barry was his cousin but not his heir, but he seized the land and usurped the title.

In 1567 Buttevant was knighted in Limerick by the Henry Sidney, the Lord Deputy.^[14][15]

In 1570 Buttevant received a lease, to hold for twenty-one years, of "the site of the house of the friars at Killnamullagh, alias Buttevante, County Cork, with its appurtenances at an annual rent of 16 shillings and 8 pence".

In 1575 Barry received a pardon.

In 1579 at the outbreak of the second Desmond Rebellion, Buttevant as well as David, his son and successor, joined the rebels. Buttevant was arrested in July 1680^[16] and detained at Dublin Castle where he died on 10 April 1581.^[17][18]

In the subsequent confiscations of his estates, the Buttevant Franciscan Friary, together with its glebe, passed into the hands of the poet, Edmund Spenser.

Notes and references

Notes

1. This family tree is based on genealogies of the de Barrys.^[1]

Citations

1. Cokayne 1910, pp. 435–447.
2. Cokayne 1910, p. 442, line 5. "He m. [married] Ellen da. [daughter] of Cormac MacCarthy Reagh."
3. Barry 1902, p. 99, line 31. "James FitzRichard Viscount Buttevant had five sons and five daughters by his wife, Ellen, daughter of Cormac na haoine McCarthy Reagh."
4. Burke 1866, p. 24, right column, line 88. "Richard, Viscount Buttevant, deaf and dumb, d.s.p. [died without issue]."
5. Barry 1902, p. 99, line 33. "1. Richard who was deaf and dumb, was superseded in titles and estates by his next brother, David, and died unmarried at Liscaroll, 24th April 1622 ..."
6. McGurk 2004, p. 121. "Barry, David fitz James, de facto third Viscount Buttevant (1550–1617), was the second son of James fitz Richard Barry Roe (d.1581) ..."
7. Burke 1866, p. 24, right column, line 90. "William, of Lislee, whose grandson, William Barry, forfeited his estate temp. Cromwell ..."
8. Barry 1902, p. 105, pedigree. "Edmund Barry, Esq., fourth son.=Eleanora, daughter of James Butler, Baron Dunboyne."
9. Barry 1902, p. 109, line 15. "Johannes, wife of David, Lord Roche;"
10. Dunlop & Cunningham 2004, p. 460, left column. "Roche married, before 1593, Joan daughter of James FitzRichard Barry, Viscount Buttevant, and his wife, Ellen MacCarthy Reagh."
11. Barry 1902, p. 109, line 13. "In a pedigree of A.D. 1615, the daughters of James FitzRichrd Viscount Buttevant are Honoria; wife of Patrick Condon;"
12. Barry 1902, p. 109, line 14. "Ellinor, wife of Sir Owen O'Sullivan, knt.;"
13. Barry 1902, p. 109, line 16. "Ilane, wife of Callaghan MacTeighe MacCarthy of Muskerry;"
14. Cokayne 1910, p. 442, line 1. "Having been knighted, 30 Mar. 1566/7, at Limerick by the Lord Deputy, as James fitz Richard Barry, Viscount Buttevant ..."
15. Shaw 1906, p. 73. "1567, Mar. 30. James FitzRichard (Barry), viscount Buttevant (at Limerick by Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy)."
16. Barry 2009, 1st paragraph"... in July [1580] his father was imprisoned ..."
17. Cokayne 1910, p. 442, line 6. "He d. [died] 10 Apr. 1581."
18. Barry 1902, p. 16. "James FitzRichard, Viscount Buttevant, thus treacherously seized and tyrannically imprisoned in Dublin Castle, died there on 10 April 1581 ..."

Sources

• Barry, E. (1902). Barrymore: Records of the Barrys of County Cork. Cork: Guy and Co.
• Barry, Judy (October 2009). McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). "Barry, David Fitz-James". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Ab-Adam to Basing (for Barry)
• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348.
• Dunlop, Robert; Cunningham, Bernadette (2004). "Roche, David, seventh viscount Roche of Fermoy (1573?–1635)". In Matthew, Colin; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 47. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 460–461. ISBN 0-19-861397-0.
• McGurk, J. J. N. (2004). "Barry, David fitz James, de facto third Viscount Buttevant (1550–1617)". In Matthew, Henry Colin Gray; Harrison, Brian (eds.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 4. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 121. ISBN 0-19-861354-7.
• Shaw, William A. (1906). The Knights of England. Vol. II. London: Sherratt & Hughes. – Knights bachelors & Index

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by James Barry	Viscount Buttevant 1581–1617	Succeeded by David Barry