Edmund De Courcy Bishop of Ross

  General Notes:

He had been a Friar in this convent 5 was advanced to the fee of Clogher by Pope Sixtus IV June 18 1484 and translated to Ross the 26th of Sept 1494 where he died in a very advanced age He was brother to Nicholas de Courcey baron of Kingsale who died in Feb 1474 he was assisted in new founding this abbey by his nephew James L Kingsale son to the said Nicholas This Bishop was a great favourite of K Henry VII whose title and interest he constantly defended against the attempts of Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck Upon Sir Richard Edgecomb's arrival at Dublin to take the oaths of the chief persons of Ireland after the rebellion he sent for him to advise him in his proceedings and such an opinion was conceived of his loyalty that it was thought unnecessary to oblige him to take any oath After the kingdom was settled he assisted in July 1489 at a provincial synod con ven d by Oftavian Archbishop of Armagh and was made an arbitrator between two contending Bishops of Kilmore He was the first of English descent that ever sat in the see of Closer (Clogher).

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