Mac William Íochtar
Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William), also known as the Mayo Burkes, were a fully Gaelicised branch of the Hiberno-Norman House of Burke in Ireland. The territory covered much of the northern part of the province of Connacht. The Mac William Íochtar functioned as a regional king and received the White Rod. The title was a successor office to the Lord of Connacht which ended upon the assassination of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, in June 1333.
Lower Mac William Mac William Íochtar | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| c. 1330–1602 | |||||||||||
 County Mayo, c. 1590 Mac William Íochtar territory (dark green) Vassals of Mac William Íochtar (light green) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Kilmaine (inauguration site) | ||||||||||
| Common languages | Irish | ||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
| Government | Tanistry | ||||||||||
| Chief | |||||||||||
• 1332–1375 | Edmond Albanach de Burgh | ||||||||||
• 1595–1602 | Tibbot MacWalter Kittagh Bourke | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
• Established | c. 1330 | ||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1602 | ||||||||||
| ISO 3166 code | IE | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small}
History
As a result of the Burke Civil War of the 1330s, the Lordship of Connacht was split between two opposing factions of the de Burgh family: the Burkes of Mac William Uachtar (or Clanricarde) in southern Connacht and the Mac William Íochtar Burkes of northern Connacht. For over three hundred years, the two families dominated the politics of the province, frequently fighting each other for supreme rule of both the Anglo-Irish and Gaelic-Irish peoples.
List of Mac William Íochtar
- Edmond Albanach de Burgh, 1332–1334 (died November 1375)
- Thomas mac Edmond Albanach de Burca, 1375–1402
- Walter mac Thomas de Burca, 1402 – 7 September 1440
- Edmund na Féasóige de Burca, 1440–1458
- Tomás Óg de Burca, 1458–1460
- Risdeárd de Burca, 1460–1469 (died 1473)
- Ricard Ó Cuairsge Bourke, 1469–1473
- Theobald Bourke, 1479 – 5 March 1503
- Ricard Bourke, 1503 – 7 July 1509
- Edmond de Burca, 1509 – 23 February 1514
- Meiler Bourke, 1514 – 28 April 1520
- Edmond de Burca, 1520 – 29 September 1527
- Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke, 1527–?
- Theobald mac Uilleag Bourke, ?–1537
- David de Burca, 1537–?
- Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke, ?–1571
- Seaán mac Oliver Bourke, 1571–1580
- Richard the Iron Bourke, 1580–1582
- Richard Bourke, 1582–1586
- William "the Blind Abbot" Bourke, 1586–1593 (Abolition)
- Tibbot MacWalter Kittagh Bourke, December 1595 (Restoration) – March 1601
- Richard "the Devils Hook" Bourke, March 1601 – October 1601
- Tibbot MacWalter Kittagh Bourke, October 1601 – January 1602 (Abolition)
In 1594 Tibbot ne Long Bourke, one of the most prominent men in the country, accepted terms of surrender and regrant. In 1627 he was created Viscount Mayo.[1]
Genealogy
- Walter de Burgh of Burgh Castle, Norfolk m. Alice
- William de Burgh (d. 1206) m. Daughter of Domnall Mór Ó Briain, King of Thomond
- Richard Mór / Óge de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught m. Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht
- Sir Richard de Burgh (d.1248), 2nd Lord of Connaught
- Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (d. 1271)
- Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259–1326)
- John de Burgh m. Elizabeth de Clare
- William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (1312–33) m. Maud of Lancaster
- Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (1332–63) m. Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
- Philippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355–82) m. Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
- Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, 6th Earl of Ulster (1374–98)
- Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, 7th Earl of Ulster (1391–1425)
- Anne Mortimer (1388–1411) m. Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
- Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, 8th Earl of Ulster (1411–60)
- Edward IV (Edward, 4th Duke of York, 9th Earl of Ulster)
- House of York (Kings and Queens of England and Ireland)
- Edward IV (Edward, 4th Duke of York, 9th Earl of Ulster)
- Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, 8th Earl of Ulster (1411–60)
- Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster (1332–63) m. Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
- William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (1312–33) m. Maud of Lancaster
- Edmond de Burgh
- Sir Richard Burke
- Walter Burke (d. 1432)
- Burkes of Castleconnell and Brittas (Clanwilliam)
- Uileag Carragh Burke
- Burkes of Cois tSiúire (Clanwilliam)
- Walter Burke (d. 1432)
- Sir David Burke,
- Burkes of Muskerryquirk (Clanwilliam)
- Sir Richard Burke
- Elizabeth, Queen of Scotland m. Robert I of Scotland
- John de Burgh m. Elizabeth de Clare
- Theobald de Burgh
- William de Burgh
- Thomas de Burgh
- Egidia de Burgh
- Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (1259–1326)
- William Óg de Burgh (d. 1270)
- William Liath de Burgh (d. 1324)
- Sir Walter Liath de Burgh, d. 1332
- Sir Edmond Albanach de Burgh (d. 1375), 1st Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William), (Mayo)
- John de Burgh (1350–98), Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Richard an Fhorbhair de Burgh
- Sir Ulick de Burgh (d. 1343/53), 1st Mac William Uachtar (Upper Mac William) or Clanricarde (Galway)
- Raymond de Burgh
- Walter Óge de Burgh
- Raymund de Burgh
- Ulick de Burgh of Umhall
- William Liath de Burgh (d. 1324)
- Alice de Burgh
- Margery de Burgh
- Matilda de Burgh
- Daughter de Burgh
- Hubert de Burgh, Bishop of Limerick (d. 1250)
- William de Burgh, Sheriff of Connacht
- Richard Mór / Óge de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught m. Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht
- Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (d. 1243) m.
- John de Burgh
- Hubert de Burgh
- Hubert de Burgh
- Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely (d. 1228)
- Thomas de Burgh
- William de Burgh (d. 1206) m. Daughter of Domnall Mór Ó Briain, King of Thomond
See also
References
- Chambers A., Shadow Lord: Theobald Bourke, Tibbott-Ne-Long, 1567–1629: Son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley (Ashfield Press, Dublin 2007) pp65-66.
- Hubert T. Knox (1908), The history of the county of Mayo to the close of the sixteenth century, p. 395
- Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, in A New History of Ireland IX, pp. 235–36, Oxford, 1984 (reprinted 2002).
