James Uriell

James (or Jacob) Uriell (died 1423) was an Irish landowner and judge who held office as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.

He was born in County Dublin, the son of Thomas Uriell, a landowner.[1] The Uriells were an Anglo-Norman family who originally settled in County Louth and are thought to have taken their surname from the Kingdom of Oriel.

James was appointed King's Serjeant in 1406. He became Chief Baron in about 1417 and retired from the Bench in 1420. Shortly before he retired he witnessed the charter by which King Henry V guaranteed the liberties of the citizens of Dublin.[2] He died in 1423.[3] The subsequent inquisition into his estates shows that he was a very substantial landowner in Counties Meath and Dublin, holding the manors of Turvey, Kilbride and Swords among others.[4]

He was married and had a daughter and heiress, Catherine, who married firstly Robert Derpatrick (died 1420), Lord of the Manor of Stillorgan.[5] They had at least one daughter. Catherine in 1422 was granted as her dower part of the woods of Stillorgan and one third of the profits of the mill there.[6] Catherine married secondly, before 1423, Barthlomew de Bathe of Rathfeigh and Drumcondra, Dublin, and had three further children: the Uriell lands passed by inheritance to her eldest son by Bartholemew, Sir William de Bathe. The Bathes remained the leading landowning family in Drumcondra until the seventeenth century. Bartholomew de Bathe was appointed by the Crown as keeper of the manor of Stillorgan during the minority of Stephen Derpatrick, Robert's brother and heir.[7] Stephen was outlawed for an unspecified crime in 1439 and his property forfeit to the Crown.[8]

References
  1. Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.174
  2. Lucas, Charles The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Dublin Dublin 1749 p.33
  3. Ball p.174
  4. Close Roll 2 Henry VI
  5. D'Alton, John History of County Dublin Dublin Hodges and Smith 1838 p.839
  6. D'Alton p.839
  7. D'Alton p.839
  8. Patent Roll 17 Henry VI.


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