John Edmund de Courcy

John Edmund de Courcy OFM^[1] was an English Bishop in Ireland in the late 15th and early 16th centuries: he was Bishop of Clogher.^[2] He was appointed Bishop of Clogher on 14 June 1484;^[3] and Bishop of Ross on 26 September 1494, a position he resigned in 1517.^[4] He died on 14 March 1519.^[5]

References

1. "Clogher clergy and parishes : being an account of the clergy of the Church of Ireland in the Diocese of Clogher, from the earliest period, with historical notices of the several parishes, churches, etc" Leslie, J.B. p7: Enniskille; R.H. Ritchie; 1929
2. "A New History of Ireland" T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F.J. Byrne and Cosgrove, A: Oxford, OUP, 1976 ISBN 0-19-821745-5
3. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 3" Cotton, H. p76 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878
4. Galloway, Peter (1992). The Cathedrals of Ireland. p. 191.
5. "Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 1" Cotton, H. p353 Dublin, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878