John de Cogan was an
Anglo-Irish
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knight who lived in the period between 1220 and 1278.
De Cogan was a grandson of
Milo de Cogan
Milo de Cogan ( fl. 1170–1182) was an Anglo-Norman knight from Glamorgan who played a significant role in the Norman conquest of Ireland under Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke; a man better known to Irish history as ''Strongbow''.
Origins
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(died 1182) and Christina Pagnel; his parents were
Richard de Cogan
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(died after 1238) and
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He is first mentioned ''sub anno'' 1233 with the
justiciar
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,
Maurice FitzGerald, on an expedition to Connacht, with
Richard Mor de Burgh,
Hugh de Lacy and
Walter de Ridelsford
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In the 1230s he led a contingent from
Munster
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which participated in the conquest of
Connacht under
Richard Mor de Burgh. His chief followers appear to have been the
Barrett family.
His lands were located in
County Galway
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and
County Mayo
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. He founded the abbey of
Kinalehin in east Galway, for the
Carthusian Order. He was also the founder of
Claregalway friary
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. On the death of his father-in-law, Gerald Prendergast, in 1261, he inherited some of his estates in right of his wife.
In 1263 he was involved in a land dispute between Walter,
Earl of Ulster, and
Maurice FitzGerald.
His wife was Marie de Prendergast, older half-sister of
Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly. Their children included Basillia, Juliane, John (1243-c.1275). By Julian Fitzmaurice, John the younger had sons John and Thomas.
According to Knox (1908, p. 295):
''In 1306, John son of William de Rathcogan, Walter de usser and Walter de Cogan were indicted for robbing the abbot of the monastery of
Crossmolina. Rathcogan is a name of
Charleville, which was in the Cogan estate in the county of Cork. We may suspect that an estate hereabouts passed like Castlebar from a de Barry to a Cogan.''
Miles Cogan was one of the many Anglo-Irish killed by the King of Connacht in 1315.
The surname is now rendered as Goggin or Goggins in
Connacht.
References
''History of Mayo'' Hubert T. Knox.
* ''Lickmolassy by the Shannon:A History of Gortanumera & Surrounding Parishes'', John Joe Conwell, 1998. .
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13th-century Irish people
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