John de Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth was an Irish peer. He was the commander of the Anglo-Irish army in the Battle of Faughart

Battle of Faughart

The Battle of Faughart was fought on 14 October 1318 between a Hiberno-Norman force led by John de Bermingham and Edmund Butler, and a Scots-Irish army commanded by Edward Bruce, brother of Robert Bruce, king of Scotland. It was a battle of the First War of Scottish Independence and more precisely...

, the decisive battle in the Irish Bruce Wars 1315–1318. In this battle, Edward Bruce

Edward Bruce

Edward the Bruce , sometimes modernised Edward of Bruce, was a younger brother of King Robert I of Scotland, who supported his brother in the struggle for the crown of Scotland, then pursued his own claim in Ireland. He was proclaimed High King of Ireland, but was eventually defeated and killed in...

 was killed, and Bermingham had Bruce's severed head 'salted in a chest' and transported to England to be put on display before Edward II.

De Bermingham married a daughter of Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster

Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster

Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and 3rd Baron of Connaught , called The Red Earl, was one of the most powerful Irish nobles of the late 13th and early 14th centuries.-Early life:...

, with whom he had a son and four daughters.

He was murdered in the Braganstown Massacre in 1329, along with sixty of his family and retainers, and the Earldom of Louth ended. The title was held once more by Thomas IV de Bermingham

Thomas IV de Bermingham

Thomas IV de Bermingham, 1st Earl of Louth, 19th Baron Athenry, 1717–1799Thomas was the last legally attested Baron Athenry. Among those who unsuccessfully claimed the lordship after him was the family of John Birmingham . His property was divided between his three female heirs and their families...

, Baron Athenry

Baron Athenry

The title of Baron Athenry is one of the oldest titles in the Peerage of Ireland, but the date of its creation is thoroughly uncertain; each of the first four Berminghams listed below is claimed by some writers to be Lord Athenry, but the evidence is disputed...

, in 1749, but became extinct upon his death in 1799.

Genealogy

Robert de Bermingham of Tethmoy, Offaly, fl. 1172.
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Meyler of Tethmoy, d. 1211. Maurice fitz Gerald = Eva? or, a son?
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Peter of Tethmoy, d. 1254. Eva de Bermingham
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James of Tethmoy Andrew of Castleconnor, d. 1291. Maurice of Dunmore, fl. 1254 Meyler de Bermingham

Meyler de Bermingham

-Ancestry:Meyler was a great-grandson of Robert de Bermingham who is said to have obtained a grant of Offaly from Strongbow or Henry II about 1172. Robert's son and grandson were both described as of Tethmoy, which is thought to have been the baronies of Warrenstown and part of Coolestown...

, d. bef. 1275
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Peter, d. 1308 Margaret
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John, d. 1329. Robert Peter James William, died 1322.
=Avelina de Burgh d. 1329 d. 1329 d. 1329. =?
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Richard Maud Catherine
d.s.p. =Sir Wm. Teeling =Edm. Lacy
1322