John de Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth

John de Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth was an Irish peer. He was the commander of the Anglo-Irish army in the Battle of Faughart, the decisive battle in the Irish Bruce Wars 1315–1318. In this battle, Edward Bruce was killed, and Bermingham had Bruce's severed head 'salted in a chest' and transported to England to be put on display before Edward II. He was briefly Viceroy of Ireland in 1321.^[1]

Bermingham married a daughter of Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, and with her had a son and four daughters.

He was murdered in the Braganstown Massacre of 1329, along with some sixty members of his family and household, when his Earldom of Louth became extinct. In 1749 the earldom was created again for a collateral descendant, Thomas Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth, but it became extinct again on his death in 1799.

Genealogy

  Robert de Bermingham of Tethmoy, Offaly, fl. 1172.
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  Meyler of Tethmoy, d. 1211.  Maurice fitz Gerald = Eva? or, a son?
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  Peter of Tethmoy, d. 1254.                         Eva de Bermingham
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  James of Tethmoy   Andrew of Castleconnor, d. 1291.  Maurice of Dunmore, fl. 1254   Meyler de Bermingham, d. bef. 1275
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  Peter, d. 1308     Margaret
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 John, d. 1329.  Robert   Peter    James    William, died 1322.
 =Avelina de Burgh    d. 1329  d. 1329  d. 1329. =?
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  Richard   Maud              Catherine
  d.s.p.   =Sir Wm. Teeling   =Edm. Lacy
   1322

External links

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p4168.htm

References

1. O'Mahony, Charles (1912). The Viceroys of Ireland. p. 27.

• The Bermingham Family of Athenry, Hubert T. Knox, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, volume ten, numbers iii and iv, 1916-17.