Английская Википедия:Almeric de Courcy, 23rd Baron Kingsale

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Almeric de Courcy, 23rd Baron Kingsale (1664–1720) was an Irish Jacobite.

Birth and origins

Almeric was born in May 1664, the second son of John de Courcy and his wife Ellen MacCarthy Reagh. His father was the 21st Baron Kingsale. His father's family, the de Courcys, were Old English and claimed descendence from John de Courcy, who had arrived in Ireland in 1176. Almeric's first name evokes Almeric Tristram, a liegeman of John de Courcy and remote ancestor of the Earls of Howth.Шаблон:Sfn

His mother was a daughter of Charles MacCarthy Reagh.Шаблон:Sfn Her father's family were the MacCarthy Reagh, a Gaelic Irish dynasty that branched from the MacCarthy-Mor line with Donal Gott MacCarthy, a medieval King of Desmond, or with Donal Maol Cairprech MacCarthy, the first independent ruler of Carbery.Шаблон:Sfn

He had two brothersШаблон:Efn and at least one sister, who are listed in his father's article..Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Baron Kingsale

On 19 May 1667 his elder brother Patrick, a seven-year-old child, succeeded their father as 17th or 22nd Baron. However, Patrick's tenure lasted only two years. Almeric succeeded him in 1669 as the 18th or 23rd Baron Kingsale.Шаблон:Sfn King Charles II had bestowed a pension of £300 yearly on the 22nd Baron, which was carried over to him.Шаблон:Sfn

Early life

Kingsale was raised a Catholic by his parents but was then sent to Oxford for a Protestant education.Шаблон:Sfn Kingsale studied under Doctor John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford. In a letter written in 1678 Fell complained that Kingsale was "addicted to the tennis court, proof against all Latin assaults and prone to kicking, beating and domineering over his sisters; ... fortified in the conceit that a title of honour was support enough, without the pedantry and trouble of book-learning."Шаблон:Sfn

On 6 December 1681 Kingsale fought a duel with Charles Livingston, 2nd Earl of Newburgh and had Patrick Sarsfield as his second.Шаблон:Sfn

When the Catholic King James II acceded the throne in 1685, he continued Kingsale's pension. Kingsale served as a captain in a troop of horse in the Irish army, later becoming Lieutenant Colonel of Patrick Sarsfield's regiment of horse.Шаблон:Sfn In 1689 he sat in the House of Lords of the Patriot Parliament.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

He was attainted in 1691 but obtained the reversal of his attainder in 1692.Шаблон:Sfn

He sat in the House of Lords of the Irish parliament of 1692–1693, taking his seat on 25 October 1692.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1692 he exercised before William III his privilege, supposed to have been granted to his ancestor John in 1203, to remain covered before the king.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn He probably did this in London as William had left Ireland on 5 September 1690.Шаблон:Sfn

Marriage

On 2 March 1698 Kingsale married Anne, daughter of Robert Dring, of Isleworth, Middlesex, at St Martin, Ludgate, London, in an Anglican ceremony.Шаблон:Sfn

bust-length painted portrait of a clean-shaven man wearing a shoulder-length wig and clad in armour

Almeric de Courcy

Later life

Kingsale sat again in the House of Lords during the Irish Parliament of 1703–1713 on 20 May 1712.Шаблон:Sfn

Death

Kingsale died childless on 9 February 1720 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.Шаблон:Sfn His wife died on 25 April 1724. In her will, she provided for a monument to her husband. This took the form of a mural with a life-size effigy under a canopy that still stands in the north choir aisle.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Its large size might be explained by the sympathy for Jacobites entertained by the then dean, Francis Atterbury.Шаблон:Sfn

Kingsale was succeeded by his cousin, Gerald de Courcy, 24th Baron Kingsale, the son of Miles de Courcy.Шаблон:Sfn

Notes and references

Sources

Subject matter monographs:

• Click here. Wills 1841 in Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen

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