John Bourke
17th Lord of Mac William Íochtar
1st Baron Ardenerie
Seaán mac Oliver Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo[1]
Died24 November 1580
NationalityIrish
ChildrenWilliam Bourke

Seaán mac Oliver (John) Bourke, 17th Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William or Mac William Oughter) (English: /bɜːrk/ BURK; died 1580) was an Irish noble who was created Baron Ardenerie (1580).

Career

Bourke was the son of Oliver Bourke of Tirawley, grandson of Seaán Bourke, and a great-grandson of Ricard Ó Cuairsge Bourke, 7th Mac William Íochtar (d.1479). He developed his power base using gallowglass mercenaries, and by 1570 was regarded as the next Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac Williams). He was created Baron Ardenerie in May 1580.[2]

Despite the contemporaneous culture of those of his class, he had little love for war and seemed concerned for the well-being of his people. Upon being reproached by an old woman for burdening his people with the maintenance of his Scottish troops, he lamented that without them, they would be at the mercy of their enemies who would be just as burdensome.

Book of the Burkes

Bourke is rightly famous as the patron of The Book of the Burkes. He spoke Irish and Latin, but not English.

He died on 24 November 1580, and was succeeded, as Baron Ardenerie, by his son William.[3][4] As Mac William Íochtar, he was succeeded by his cousin, Richard "the Iron" Bourke, 18th Mac William Íochtar (d.1583), the son of David de Búrca, 15th Mac William Íochtar.

Genealogy

Mac William Íochtar Genealogy

Notes and references

  1. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London : Harrison & sons.
  2. ↑ Cokayne 1910, p. 191, line 23: "being, in May 1580, cr. BARON OF ARDENERIE [I.], with rem. to the heirs male of his body."
  3. ↑ Cokayne 1910, p. 191, line 24: "He d. 24 Nov. 1580."
  4. ↑ "Burke (de Burgh), John (Seaan, Shane Mac Oliverus) | Dictionary of Irish Biography". www.dib.ie. Retrieved 21 December 2021.

Further reading

  • Knox, Hubert T. (1908), The History of the County of Mayo to the Close of the Sixteenth Century, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Co.
  • Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, in A New History of Ireland IX, pp. 235–36, Oxford, 1984 (reprinted 2002).
  • Burke (de Burgh), John (Seaan, Shane Mac Oliverus, Terry Clavin, inn Dictionary of Irish Biography from the Earliest Times to the Year 2002, edited by James McGuire and James Quinn, pp. 38–39. Cambridge, 2010.


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