Osborne Ichyngham
Sir Osborne Ichyngham or Echyngham (died 1546) was an English official and landowner in Ireland.
Biography[edit]
Ichyngham was apparently a son of Sir Edward Echyngham of Barsham, Suffolk. He was, perhaps, not a legitimate son, since Echyngham's daughters had priority in inheritance. The change in spelling of the surname may represent an appropriation of, or assimilation to, the place-name Ditchingham, nearby to Barsham.
By 1515 Ichyngham had emerged as the confidential agent and messenger of Sir Thomas Spinelly, English Resident Ambassador in the Netherlands.[1] In February 1514–15 his presence is requested by Spinelly, in his message from Antwerp advising Wolsey that a marriage between Charles Brandon (Lord Lisle, Duke of Suffolk) and Queen Mary, Henry's sister, was rumoured.[2] In 1520 Spinelly thought him a discreet young fellow: after Spinelly's death in 1522 King Henry chose him to ride post with secret papers to and from Valladolid during Bishop Lee's mission in 1526,[3] and sent him as an envoy to the King of Hungary in 1530.[4] He inherited lands and a house in Shipmeadow and Barsham from his father in 1527, and was knighted in 1529.
Ichyngham established himself and his line in Ireland, where by 1540 he became provost marshal,[5] though retaining his connection with Barsham.[6] Party to the 1542 Indenture between Lord Deputy St Leger and the Irish chieftains,[7] in 1543 after the dissolution of the Irish monasteries he was granted the Cistercian house of Monasteranenagh Abbey, County Limerick, with its possessions.[8] In 1545, at his petition, the King granted to him and his heirs the former Dunbrody Abbey, County Wexford, Ireland, with all its manors, lands, churches, chapels and possessions, in exchange for the manor of Netherhall in Hickling, Norfolk.[9][10] The Dunbrody lands were called a "waste" estate,[11] but commanded the outflow of the Three Sisters and the eastern shore of Waterford Harbour from Ballyhack down to Duncannon, across the Hook Peninsula to Coole, Ballyvelig, Tinnock and Curraghmore, and crossing below the estates of Tintern Abbey to the inlet from Bannow Bay at Ballygow (Poulfur).[12][13] This, it was hoped, would prove a useful vantage from which to control the Cavanaghs, historic rulers of the Kingdom of Leinster.[14] Osborne died in 1546, requesting that his heart be buried at Barsham.
Descendants[edit]
Ichyngham made two marriages, the first to Katherine, who was buried under the church porch at Barsham, and secondly (by 1529[15][16]) to Mary, who was buried at Barsham in 1584. By his second marriage he had three children:[6]
- Edward Echingham inherited the Dunbrody estate from his father, in fee tail.[17] He died without issue.[18]
- Charles Echingham was heir to his brother,[19] and he or his descendants succeeded to Dunbrody. He was the father of
- John Echingham (died 1616),[20] who married Margaret Whittie (afterwards wife of Sir Terence O'Dempsey, 1st Viscount Clanmalier).[21] John's son and heir was a younger Osborn Echingham (died 1635),[22] who redeemed his father's many feoffments. Osborn's son Sir John Itchingham in 17 Charles I barred all entails to his estate, and by his will of 1650 bestowed it upon his daughter Jane Ichyngham.[23] She married Arthur Chichester, 2nd Earl of Donegall;[24][25] their descendants, the Marquesses of Donegall, quarter the arms of Echyngham.
- George Echingham had from his father a manor called Rothenhall in Kessingland and Pakefield, Suffolk; but although there was a manor of that name, it was the manor of Echinghams in Kessingland (perhaps a division or parcel of the other) which descended in the family.[26]
References[edit]
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- ^ For Spinelly, see B. Behrens, 'The office of the English Resident Ambassador: its evolution as illustrated by the career of Sir Thomas Spinelly, 1509–22', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society XVI (C.U.P. 1933), pp. 161-95.
- ^ '180. Spinelly to Wolsey', Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. II Pt. 2 (1864), p. 61 (Hathi Trust).
- ^ J.S. Brewer (ed.), Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. III: 1519–1523 (London 1867), no. 926, 27 July 1520, p. 341; Vol. IV: 1524–1530 (London 1875), no. 2320, pp. 1041–42, and passim (British History Online).
- ^ J.T. Gilbert (ed.), Chartularies of St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, with the Register of its House at Dunbrody, and Annals of Ireland, 2 vols, Rolls Series, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores LXXX (Longman & Co., London 1884), II, pp. xcv-vi (Internet Archive).
- ^ '152. Henry VIII to Sir Anthony Sentleger', in J.S. Brewer and W. Bullen (eds), Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts preserved in the Archiepiscopal Library at Lambeth, 6 vols (1867–73), I, p. 173 (Hathi Trust).
- ^ a b 'Will of Sir Osborn Echyngham, Marshal' (PCC 1547/58, Populwell quire): transcript in F.H. Suckling, 'Notes on Barsham juxta Beccles' (fourth part), in H.W.F. Harwood (ed.), The Genealogist, New Series XXII (1906), pp. 128-34, at pp. 128-29 (Internet Archive).
- ^ S.T. McCarthy, The MacCarthys of Munster. The Story of a Great Irish Sept (The Dundalgan Press, Dundalk 1922), pp. 360-61 (Internet Archive).
- ^ J. Begley, The Diocese of Limerick, Ancient and Mediaeval (Browne & Nolan, Limited, Dublin 1906), p. 344 (Internet Archive).
- ^ B. Colfer, The Hook Peninsula: County Wexford, Irish Rural Landscapes: II (Cork University Press 2004), p. 117 (Google).
- ^ J.T. Gilbert (ed.), Chartularies of St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, with the Register of its House at Dunbrody, and Annals of Ireland, 2 vols, Rolls Series, Rerum Britannicarum Medii Aevi Scriptores LXXX (Longman & Co., London 1884), II, pp. xcv-c (Internet Archive).
- ^ '35. Grant to Sir Osborne Itchingham', in J. Morrin (ed.), Calendar of the patent and close rolls of chancery in Ireland (Dublin 1861), p. 118 (Internet Archive).
- ^ 'Inquisition, Wexford, James I, no. 55: 1624', in Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum, Repertorium, (Commissioners, 1826), I, Part 4 pp. 29-30 (Google). For an English version (under date 1617), see G. Griffith, Chronicles of the County Wexford ("The Watchman", Enniscorthy c. 1889), pp. 163-67 (Google).
- ^ B. Lynch, A Monastic Landscape: The Cistercians in Medieval Ireland (Xlibris Corporation, 2010), at PT 51 (Google).
- ^ '707. Deputy and Council of Ireland to the Council', Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. XX Part 1 (HMSO 1905), pp. 365-66 (British History Online]; more fully in State Papers III: Henry VIII Part III (Commissioners, 1834), pp. 520-22 (Google).
- ^ 'Feoffment', Suffolk Record Office (Ipswich), Iveagh (Phillips) MSS, ref. HD 1538/11 Vol. 11/fol. 15 – Kessingland (Discovery Catalogue).
- ^ In March 1528 Cromwell sought to promote a marriage between Osborne Ichyngham and Olyve Wychyngham, relict of Roger Rookwood: '4055. Francis Lovell to Cromwell', in J.S. Brewer (ed.), Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, Vol. IV: 1524–1530 (London 1875), p. 1799 (British History Online).
- ^ The descent of Dunbrody in the Echyngham family is traced by J. Morrin, 'Historical notes of the Abbey of Dunbrodin', Transactions of the Ossory Archaeological Society, I: 1874–1879 (1879), pp. 407-31, at pp. 409-13 (Internet Archive).
- ^ 'Pd' Edw' obiit sine exit'.' – 'Inquisition, Wexford, James I, no. 55: 1624', p. 29.
- ^ Lodge's Peerage of Ireland, I, p. 337, and Collins's Peerage, VIII, p. 202, (in identical words) make Charles the cousin of Edward, but their father's will is very clear that they are brothers.
- ^ 'Joh' Ichingham fuit consanguin' & her' pd Edw' scilicet fil' & her' Car' fratris & her' pd' Edw'.'; 'obiit 16 Julii 1616 apud Ballihack' – 'Wexford Inquisition 55. 1624', p. 30.
- ^ 'Margaret Whittie al' Ichingham, ux' pd' Joh', post mortē pd' Joh' cepit in virū Terenc' O'Dempsie mil', et adhuc sup'stes est.' – 'Wexford Inquisition 55. 1624', p. 30.
- ^ 'Osbern' Ichingham est fil' et her' p'fat' Joh', et p'd' Osbern' fuit etat' 19 annor' tempore mortis p'ris sui, et maritat'.' – 'Wexford Inquisition 55. 1624', p. 30.
- ^ This and the later descent of the name is traced in 'The Etchingham Family', in Griffith, Chronicles of the County Wexford, pp. 224-27 (Internet Archive).
- ^ Morrin, 'Historical notes of the Abbey of Dunbrodin'.
- ^ Suckling, 'Barsham Juxta Beccles' (third part), pp. 53-54 (Internet Archive).
- ^ 'Kessingland' and 'Pakefield', in A.I. Suckling, The History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 1 (S.H. Cowell, Ipswich 1846), pp. 250-259 and pp. 279-87 (British History Online).