Miles de Courcy explained

Miles de Courcy (died c.1720) was an Irish Jacobite politician.

De Courcy was the son of Patrick de Courcy, 13th Baron Kingsale and Mary FitzGerald. A burgess of Kinsale from 1687, in 1689 he was elected as a Member of Parliament for Kinsale in the short-lived Patriot Parliament called by James II of England.^[1] During the Williamite War in Ireland, he was a captain in Boiseleau's Regiment of Foot.^[2] De Courcy was subsequently attainted, but he was restored to his estates under the Articles of Limerick.

He married Elizabeth Sadleir; their son, Gerald, inherited the title of his cousin, Almeric de Courcy, 23rd Baron Kingsale, in 1720.^[3]

Notes and References

1. O'Hart, John, The Irish Parliament of King James the Second in 1689, Irish Pedigrees: or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation (5th Ed., 1892), Volume 2. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
2. DE COURCY, Myles. Officers of the Jacobite Armies, Centre for Robert Burns Studies, University of Glasgow. Retrieved 17 February 2023.
3. Debrett, John. Debrett's Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1839), p.653. Retrieved 17 February 2023.