James Cornwalsh (died 1441) was an Irish judge who held the office of Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. He was a political figure of considerable importance in fifteenth-century Ireland, and a supporter of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond.[1] He was murdered as a result of a feud over the possession of Baggotrath Castle, near Dublin.[2]
^Beresford, David "Cornwalsh, James Cambridge Dictionary of Irish Biography 2009
^Smith, J. Huband "The Castle and Manor of Baggotrath" (1856) Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (1836-1869) Vol.6 p.306
JamesCornwalsh (died 1441) was an Irish judge who held the office of Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. He was a political figure of considerable importance...
Dardistown in the same county. He was the son of JamesCornwalsh and Matilda Rochfort; the Cornwalsh family were originally from Cornwall. His father...
Exchequer for life. This led immediately to a clash with John Cornwalsh, whose father JamesCornwalsh, recently deceased, had held the same office; John claimed...
1405 James Fitzwilliam 1413 William Tynbegh, third term 1415 James Uriell 1417 JamesCornwalsh, first term 1420 Richard Sydgrave 1423 JamesCornwalsh, second...
that era, he faced the claims of a rival for office, in this case JamesCornwalsh, who was finally confirmed as Chief Baron in 1425, only to be murdered...
He was a ward of his father's successor as Chief Baron, JamesCornwalsh; ironically Cornwalsh was murdered 20 years later in a private war with the Fitzwilliam...
death in 1428, died having appointed JamesCornwalsh, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, as her executor. Cornwalsh took possession of the castle, a...
the attack is unknown: Elrington Ball, comparing it to the murder of JamesCornwalsh, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, twenty years earlier, argued that...
year he conveyed at the King's command the manor of Rathfarnham to JamesCornwalsh, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer. We have a glimpse of his judicial...
commission headed by two of the three Chief Justices, John Blakeney and JamesCornwalsh, to sit at Trim in the autumn of 1426 to hear the matter. They remitted...
JamesCornwalsh, the Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, whom Merbury accused of grossly slandering him before the English Privy Council. Cornwalsh was...
senior judges, including John Blakeney and Reginald's Chief Baron JamesCornwalsh, who regularly sat on judicial commissions to try or inquire into cases...
residence, for possession of which they fought a bitter private war with the Cornwalsh family in the 1440s, and were even prepared to resort to murder to assert...
1st Earl of Shrewsbury on the other. While some judges, notably the Cornwalsh family, which produced two Chief Barons in turn, were supporters of Ormond...
remarried firstly Richard Talbot of Malahide Castle and secondly John Cornwalsh, and died in 1482. She was said to be a lady of ferocious temper). In...
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