William "the Blind Abbot" Bourke

William "the Blind Abbot" Bourke, 20th Mac William Íochtar (Irish: William An tAb Caoch Bourke; English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; died 1593) was an Irish chieftain and noble.

William Bourke 20th Mac William Iochtar
Uilleag An tAb Caoch Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo
Died	1593

Background

William was a son of David de Búrca, 15th Mac William Íochtar. His brother was Richard "the Iron" Bourke, 18th Mac William Íochtar (d.1583). He succeeded his cousin, Richard Bourke, 19th Mac William Íochtar (d.1586) a great-grandson of Ricard Ó Cuairsge Bourke, 7th Mac William Íochtar (d.1479). William was succeeded by his cousin, Tibbot MacWalter (Theobald Fitzwalter) Kittagh Bourke, 21st Mac William Íochtar (c.1570–c.1602), the eldest child of Walter Kittagh Bourke (d.1591) and grandson of Seaán mac Oliver Bourke (Sir John Bourke), 17th Mac William Íochtar and 1st Baron Ardenerie (d.1580).

Genealogy

Mac William Íochtar Genealogy

• Sir Edmond Albanach de Burgh (d. 1375), 1st Mac William Íochtar (Lower Mac William), (Mayo)
  • William de Burgh (d.1368)
  • Thomas mac Edmond Albanach de Burca, 1375–1402, 2nd Mac William Íochtar
    • Walter mac Thomas de Burca (d.1440), 3rd Mac William Íochtar
      • Theobald Bourke (d.1503), 8th Mac William Íochtar
        • Meiler Bourke (d.1520), 11th Mac William Íochtar
      • Ricard Bourke (d.1509), 9th Mac William Íochtar
        • Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke (alive 1527), 13th Mac William Íochtar
          • Ricard mac Seaán an Tearmainn Bourke (d.1571), 16th Mac William Íochtar
    • Edmund na Féasóige de Burca, (d.1458), 4th Mac William Íochtar
      • Ricard Ó Cuairsge Bourke (d.1473), 7th Mac William Íochtar
        • Edmond de Burca (d.1527), 10th Mac William Íochtar
        • Walter de Burca
        • Seaán de Burca
          • Oliver de Burca
            • Seaán mac Oliver Bourke (d.1580), 17th Mac William Íochtar
            • Richard Bourke (d.1586), 19th Mac William Íochtar
              • Walter Ciotach de Burca of Belleek (d.1590)
                • Tibbot (Theobald) MacWalter Kittagh Bourke, 21st Mac William Íochtar, 1st Marquess of Mayo
                  • Walter (Balthasar) Bourke, 2nd Marquess of Mayo
      • Thomas Ruadh de Burca
      • Uilleag de Burca
        • Edmond de Burca (d.1527), 12th Mac William Íochtar
          • David de Burca (alive 1537), 15th Mac William Íochtar
            • Richard the Iron Bourke (d.1583), 18th Mac William Íochtar
              • Tibbot (Theobald) ne Long Bourke (1567-1629), 23rd Mac William Íochtar, 1st Viscount Mayo (1627)
                • Viscounts Mayo
            • William "the Blind Abbot" Bourke (d.1593), 20th Mac William Íochtar
        • Theobald mac Uilleag Bourke (d.1537), 14th Mac William Íochtar
        • Risdeárd de Burca
          • Ricard Deamhan an Chorráin de Burca
            • Risdeárd Mac Deamhan an Chorráin (Richard) "the Devils Hook" Bourke (d.1601), 22nd Mac William Íochtar
    • Seaán de Burca (d.1456)
    • Tomás Óg de Burca, (d.1460), 5th Mac William Íochtar
    • Risdeárd de Burca (d.1473), 6th Mac William Íochtar

See also

• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

References

Bibliography

• 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.
• Knox, Hubert T. (1908). The History of the County of Mayo to the close of the sixteenth century. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis and Company. p. 395.
• Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J., eds. (1989). A New History of Ireland: IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists, A Companion to Irish History, Part II. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-959306-4.
  • Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, pp. 235–36.