James Uriell
James (or Jacob) Uriell (died c.1425) was an Irish landowner and judge who held office very briefly as Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
He was born in County Dublin, the son of Thomas Uriell, a landowner.[1] The Uriells were an Anglo-Norman family who originally settled in County Louth and are thought to have taken their surname from the Kingdom of Oriel.
James was made King's Serjeant in 1406.[1] He was appointed as an acting justice in a case of novel disseisin the same year.[2] In 1409 he was appointed to a three-man commission, together with William Tynbegh, Deputy Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Walter Tyrrell, Sheriff of County Dublin, to inquire into the export of foodstuffs from Ireland without licence.[3] He became Chief Baron in December 1419 "so long as he was of good behaviour", with the usual fee of £40 a year,[4] but retired from the Bench less than a year later. Shortly before he retired he witnessed the charter by which King Henry V guaranteed the liberties of the citizens of Dublin.[5] On an unspecified date, most likely in 1421, he sat as an acting justice with Sir Laurence Merbury and John Blakeney on a commission of inquiry into the inheritance of the lands of Rathfeigh, County Meath, held by the Bathe family.[6] It is interesting that Uriell's daughter and heiress married into that family.
He is someone said to have died later that year, but it was more likely two years later.[1] The subsequent inquisition into his estates shows that he was a very substantial landowner in Counties Meath and Dublin, holding the manors of Turvey, Kilbride and Swords among others. His lands at Swords passed to Richard Uriell, who was clearly a close relative, but not a son of James. [7]
He was married and had a daughter and heiress, Catherine, who married firstly Robert Derpatrick (died 1420), Lord of the Manor of Stillorgan, who was the grandson of the prominent landowner and politician, Sir John Cruys of Thorncastle.[8] They had at least one daughter. Catherine in 1422 was granted as her dower part of the woods of Stillorgan and one-third of the profits of the mill there.[8] Catherine married secondly, before 1423, Bartholemew de Bathe of Rathfeigh and Drumcondra, Dublin, and had three further children: the Uriell lands passed by inheritance to her eldest son by Bartholemew, Sir William de Bathe. The Bathes remained the leading landowning family in Drumcondra until the seventeenth century. Bartholomew de Bathe was appointed by the Crown as keeper of the manor of Stillorgan during the minority of Stephen Derpatrick, Robert's brother and heir.[8] Stephen was outlawed for an unspecified crime in 1439 and his property forfeit to the Crown.[9]
References
- ^ a b c Ball, F. Elrington The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921 John Murray London 1926 Vol.1 p.174
- ^ Patent Roll 7 Henry IV
- ^ Patent Roll 10 Henry IV
- ^ Patent Roll 7 Henry V
- ^ Lucas, Charles The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Dublin Dublin 1749 p.33
- ^ Close Roll 2 Henry VI
- ^ Close Roll 2 Henry VI
- ^ a b c D'Alton, John History of County Dublin Dublin Hodges and Smith 1838 p.839
- ^ Patent Roll 17 Henry VI.
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