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John de Courcy
Baron Kingsale
Coat of arms of Courcy family.svg
Tenure 1663–1667
Predecessor Patrick de Courcy, 20th Baron Kingsale
Successor Patrick, 22nd Baron (a child)
Died 19 May 1667
Spouse(s) Ellen MacCarthy Reagh
Issue
Detail
Patrick, Almeric, & others
Father Patrick de Courcy, 20th Baron Kingsale
Mother Mary FitzGerald

John de Courcy, 21st Baron Kingsale (died 1667) sat in the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament of 1661–1666.

Birth and origins

Family tree
John de Courcy with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.
John
de Courcy
18th Baron
d. 1628
Mary
O'Crowly
Gerald
de Courcy
19th Baron
d. c. 1642
Patrick
de Courcy
20st Baron
d. 1663
Mary
FitzGerald
David
de Courcy
John
de Courcy
21st Baron
d. 1667
Ellen
MacCarthy
Reagh
Miles
de Courcy
Elizabeth
Sadleir
Anthony
de Courcy

d. 1727
Patrick
de Courcy
22nd Baron
Kingsale

1660–1669
Almeric
de Courcy
23rd Baron
Kingsale

1664–1720
Anne
Dring

d. 1724
Gerald
de Courcy
24th Baron
1700–1759
Miles
de Courcy
John
de Courcy
25th Baron
1717–1776
Martha
Heron
Legend
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Kingsale

John was born the eldest son of Patrick de Courcy and Mary FitzGerald. His father was the 20th Baron Kingsale (also counted as the 19th or the 15th). His father's family, the de Courcys, were Old English and claimed descendence from John de Courcy, who had arrived in Ireland in 1176.

His mother was a daughter of John Oge FitzGerald of Dromana. Her eldest sister, Helen (or Ellen) was the wife of his uncle Gerald, the 19th Baron Kingsale. The FitzGeralds of Dromana were Old English like the de Courcys. They were a cadet branch of the FitzGeralds of Desmond that started when Gerald FitzGerald, the second son of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond (d. 1462) was given Dromana as an appanage.

His parents married when his father was already 48 years old but had 23 children. However, only seven seem to be known by name.

John listed among his known brothers
He was the eldest of four known brothers:
  1. John (d. 1667)
  2. Edmund died without issue
  3. Miles, married Elizabeth Sadleir and was father of Gerard de Courcy, 24th Baron Kingsale.
  4. Gerald, died without issue
John's known sisters
  1. Alice, married Dermod MacCarthy of Anglish
  2. Elizabeth, married David Sarsfield, 3rd Viscount Sarsfield
  3. Margaret, married Phillip Barry Oge

Early life

His father was Baron Kingsale from about 1642 to 1663, during the 11 years of war that followed the Irish Rebellion of 1641, then through the eight years of Cromwellian rule in Ireland, and last through the Restoration.

Marriage and children

De Courcy married Ellen, daughter of Charles MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain and granddaughter of Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain.

John and Ellen had three sons:

  1. Patrick (1660–1669), succeeded as the 22nd Baron
  2. Almeric (1664–1720), succeeded as the 23rd Baron
  3. William

—and at least one daughter:

  1. Ellen, married Sir John Magrath, 3rd Baronet

21st Baron

John succeeded his father in 1663 as the 21st Baron Kingsale. He took his seat in the Irish House of Lords as Lord Kingsale on 9 November 1665.

Death

Kingsale died of smallpox on 19 May 1667. He was succeeded by his eldest son Patrick aged seven.

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