Richard "the Devils Hook" Bourke

Richard "the Devils Hook" Bourke, 22nd Mac William Íochtar (Irish: Risdeárd mac Deamhain an Chorráin Bourke; English: /bɜːrk/; BURK; died October 1601) was an Irish chieftain and noble.

Richard Bourke
22nd Mac William Iochtar
Risdeárd mac Deamhain an Chorráin Búrca
Arms of Bourke of Mayo[1]
Died1601

Richard was the son of Ricard "Deamhan an Chorráin" Bourke, grandson of Risdeárd Bourke, great-grandson of Uilleag de Búrca, and great-great-grandson of Edmund na Féasóige de Búrca, 4th Mac William Íochtar (d.1458). He succeeded his cousin, Tibbot MacWalter (Theobald Fitzwalter) Kittagh Bourke, 21st Mac William Íochtar (c. 1570–c. 1602). Richard was succeeded by his cousin, Tibbot ne Long Bourke, 23rd Mac William Íochtar and first Viscount Mayo, the son of Richard "the Iron" Bourke, 18th Mac William Íochtar (d.1583).

Genealogy
Mac William Íochtar Genealogy

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.

Further reading
  • The History of Mayo, Hubert T. Knox. 1908.
  • Lower Mac William and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332-1649, in A New History of Ireland IX, pp. 235–36, Oxford, 1984 (reprinted 2002).
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