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1603
Events from the year 1603 in Ireland.
Incumbent
Monarch: Elizabeth I (until 24 March),Battista Fabio 2019 Staging English Affairs in Early Modern Italy: History, Politics, Drama https://academicworks.cuny.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4527&context=gc_etds 2024-02-18 academicworks.cuny.edu City University of New York Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603, at the age of 70 then James I. James VI and I https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/scottish-history-and-archaeology/james-vi-and-i/ 2024-02-18 National Museums Scotland en On the death of Elizabeth in 1603, he became James I of England. He is thus known as James VI and I.
Events
March 24 – James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I in England (but the news is withheld from the Irish leaders in treaty negotiations).
March 31 – the Nine Years War (1595–1603) is ended by the submission of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.Antman David 2004 "When the Plough and Breeding of Cattle Cease, Then Will the Rebellion End": The Adoption of Total War as English Policy in Ireland, 1558-1603 https://chrestomathy.cofc.edu/documents/vol3/antman.pdf Chrestomathy: Annual Review of Undergraduate Research at the College of Charleston Charleston, SC College of Charleston 3 1 On March 30, 1603, Hugh O’Neill, the Earl of Tyrone and leader of the nine-year Irish rebellion, surrendered to Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, the English Lord Deputy in Ireland, at Mellifont Abbey. Tyrone threw himself on the floor and groveled at Mountjoy’s feet, begging for the Queen’s mercy, unaware that Elizabeth had died merely weeks before. He remained on his knees for an hour before being sent away; later he was made to submit to the Lords of the Irish Counciland to the Irish Parliament in Dublin.
November – Geoffrey Keating is one of forty students who sail for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev. Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which has just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.Murtagh Eleanor Therese 2012 Kingship, religion, culture and order: The native Irish and the Old English in early seventeenth-century Ireland https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/4761/1/Eleanor%20Murtagh%20Thesis%20Final%2020Aug2012.pdf 2024-02-18 National University of Ireland, Maynooth Department of History 104 Keating, on the other hand, a Catholic diocesan priest, a descendant of the early Anglo-Norman settlers, from a gaelicised area in south Co. Tipperary, left Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century, studied in Rheims where he imbibed Tridentine doctrine and went on to the Irish college in Bordeaux, founded in 1603, presumably to teach theology.Donald Sarah Mac 2013-12-15 Archbishops launch online archive of ancient religious texts https://www.catholicireland.net/online-archive-religious-texts/ 2024-02-18 Catholicireland.net en-US The priest, Seathrún Céitinn (ca. 1569 – ca. 1644) who was known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th-century poet and historian. In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed for Bordeaux under the charge of Fr Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which had just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
Ballintubber Abbey is suppressed.History from the Abbey *** https://www.ballintubberabbey.ie/history/ 2024-02-18 Ballintubber Abbey en-US However, James I in 1603 confiscated all the lands belonging to the Abbey and effectively ended the presence of the Canon Regulars in the Abbey.
Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer since 1602, holds the first assizes in Ulster, at Donegal.Comerford T. https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E610003/text001.html The History of Ireland: From the Earliest Account of Time, to the Invasion of the English Under King Henry II T. Scanlan & B. Edes 1826 978-1170408568 3rd Dublin 317 en The public peace being thus established, the State proceeded next to establish the public justice in every part of the realm; and to that end, Sir George Cary, who was a prudent governor and a just, and made a fair entry into the right way of reforming this kingdom, did in the first year of His Majesty's reign make the first sheriffs that ever were made in Tyrone and Tyrconnel, and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron, and myself thither, the first justices of assize that ever sat in those countries; and in that circuit we visited all the shires of that province.MacNevin Thomas The Confiscation of Ulster: In the Reign of James the First, Commonly Called the Ulster Plantation James Duffy 2nd "1603. Sir George Carey, Treasurer at War, June 1, was made Lord Deputy; he, in the first year of his majesty's reign, made the first sheriffs that ever served in Tyrowen and Tyrconnell, and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron, and Sir John Davies of Ireland, the first Justices of Assize in those countries, which were welcome to the Commons, though distateful to the Irish Lords." 1861
Brian Óg na Samhthach Ó Ruairc, King of West Breifne is overthrown.Gallogy Dan 1963 Brian Oge O'Rourke and the Nine Years War Breifne Journal 2 200–203
Births
Approximate date – Audley Mervyn, lawyer, politician and soldier (d. 1675)2009 Mervyn, Sir Audley Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/mervyn-sir-audley-a5803 2024-02-18 www.dib.ie en 10.3318/dib.005803.v1 Born 1603 subscription free
Deaths
March 24 – Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (b. 1533)
William Piers, Governor of Carrickfergus2009 Piers, William Dictionary of Irish Biography https://www.dib.ie/biography/piers-william-a7331 2024-02-18 www.dib.ie en 10.3318/dib.007331.v1 William Piers died in 1603 and is believed to have been buried in Carrickfergus. subscription free
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