Patrick De Courcy 2nd lord of Kingsale

  General Notes:

Possible (illegitimate) son of John, Earl of Ulster

17 July 1221 (5 Henry III) was joined in a commission, dated at Westminster, with Thomas Fitz-Anthony, the Kings of Conaught, Leinster, and Munster, and divers of the nobility, empowering them to remove Sir Geoffry de Marisco from the office of LJ, and to substitute in his room Henry de Launders, Archbishop of Dublin. This commission is preserved among the records in the tower of London (Rot Clanf, de Anno 5to Henry III M 6 Derso) of which the Lord Kingsale has an attested copy.

Between 1217 and 1220 he witnessed a charter of his mother.1
On 17 July 1221 he is mentioned as among the leading nobles of Ireland.1
1.Peter Townend, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition (London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970), psge 2048. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage, 105th ed.

GEC claims this Patrick married Margery, granddaughter and heir of Miles DeCogan. This marriage is extremely important as it brought with it the lands known as the Barony of Kingsale and Ringrone.

The following from: Ireland under the Normans:
THE SEIGNORY OF CORK

When treating of the occupation of Cork in the twelfth century, we briefly considered the difficult question of the devolution of the moieties of the ' kingdom of Cork ' granted by Henry II to Robert Fitz Stephen and Miles de Cogan respectively ante, vol. ii, pp. 46-50). Further research has enabled me to add some links in the chain of descent of the Carews who are found in possession of the Fitz Stephen moiety in the latter part of the thirteenth century, and also to put forward more confidently the suggestion that Patrick de Courcy married a de Cogan heiress and thus acquired the de Cogan moiety.

Ralph Fitz Stephen who was slain in 1182 (ante, vol. ii, p. 40), appears to have had a daughter (Margery) for whose marriage, together with ' all the land of Miles de Cogan, Thomas Bloet before 1211 made a fine of 500 marks (Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, nos. 422, 452). This fine was still unpaid in 1227 (ibid., no. 1504). Thomas Bloet was an official of King John, and was employed by him in 1207 to summon John d'Erlee and other followers of William the Marshal in pursuance of the intrigue against the earl, of which we have given an account: ante, vol. ii, pp. 212-16. He appears as a great Munster lord in 1210, when he joined King. John with a large force from Munster (Prest. Rolls, p. 188), and he was one of the magnates who joined in the declaration of loyalty to the king in 1211 (Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, no. 448). He must have been dead by February 1217, when a fine of 100 marks was accepted from Margery de Cogan ' to have the land of her inheritance in Desmond ' (ibid., no. 758). This Margery was, I think, the granddaughter of Miles de Cogan, now a feme-sole and widow of Thomas Bloet, and there was presumably no issue of the marriage. It is a reasonable conjecture that soon after this date she was married to Patrick de Courcy. There is indeed no direct evidence for this marriage, but in 1221 Patrick de Courcy and Robert de Carew were the principal tenants in chief in Cork, and they 1 and their respective descendants for several generations appear to have been held liable in equal moieties for the sixty services reserved in the original grant to Miles de Cogan and Robert Fitz Stephen.

In my former note (ante, vol. ii, p. 50) I confused this Margery de Cogan with the Margarita jiiia Milonis who made a grant in Rosselethry (Ros Ailither, now Rosscar bery) to St. Mary's Abbey (Chart., vol. ii, p. 4), but I now think that the former was daughter and heiress of the latter. Margarita's grant was perhaps a death-bed gift 1 That Patrick de Courcy and Robert de Carew were so held liable is evidenced by the fact that, in the Pipe Rolls and Exchequer accounts, payments for these services were entered under their names (as was not unusual) long after they were both dead. See e. g. Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. iv. no. 473.

Patrick married Margery Fitz Stephen, daughter of Ralph Fitz Stephen and Unknown, in 1230. (Margery Fitz Stephen was born in 1199.)