David Roche, 7th Viscount Fermoy

David was born about 1573,{{Sfn|Cokayne|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n158/ 299, line 16]|ps=. "... b. before, probably long before, 1588."}}{{Sfn|Dunlop|Cunningham|2004|p=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0198613970/page/460/ 460, left column, line 33]|ps=. "Roche, David, seventh Viscount Roche of Fermoy (1573?–1635) ..."}}{{Sfn|Ó Siochrú|2009|loc=Beginning|ps=. "Roche, David (c.1573–1635), 2nd Viscount Fermoy, politician, was the eldest surviving son ..."}} probably in Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland. He was the only surviving son of Maurice Roche and his first wife, Eleanor FitzGerald.{{Sfn|Cokayne|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n158/ 299, line 15]|ps=. "VII. 1600. 7. David (Roche), Viscount Roche of Fermoy [I.], only surv. s. and h. by his 1st wife."}} His father was the 6th Viscount Fermoy (also counted as the 1st). His father's family, the Roches were Old English and descended from Adam de Rupe who had come to Ireland from Wales with Robert FitzStephen.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ/page/n483/ 454]|ps=. "The family of Roche was established in Ireland by Adam de Rupe of Roch Castle, co. Pembrokeshire, who accompanied Robert FitzStephen to that country in 1196."}}

His mother was a daughter of Sir Maurice fitz John FitzGerald of Totane, younger brother of James FitzJohn FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Desmond{{Sfn|Dunlop|Cunningham|2004|p=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0198613970/page/460/ 460, left column, line 40]|ps=. "His mother was Eleanor, daughter of Maurice FitzJohn FitzGerald (brother of James FitzJohn FitzGerald, fourteenth earl of Desmond), and sister of James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, the 'archtraitor'."}} and third son of the de facto 12th Earl of Desmond.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, left column, line 56]|ps=. "He [Maurice Roche] m. 1st Ellener, dau. of Sir Maurice FitzJohn, 3rd son of John, 14th Earl of Desmond ..."}} She also was a sister of James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, the "archtraitor", who led the first Desmond Rebellion. Her family were the FitzGeralds of Desmond, a cadet branch of the Old English Geraldines, whose senior branch were the FitzGeralds of Kildare.

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Despite these family relations, his father and grandfather fought against the insurgents in the Desmond Rebellions during which two of his paternal uncles were killed.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, line 24]|ps=. "IV Theobald, who m. Grany, dau. of Murrough O'Brien Ara, and was killed by the Seneschal of Imokilly, in the Queen's wars."}}{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, line 28]|ps=. "VII A son, killed by the rebels in the Queen's wars."}} His father succeeded his grandfather as the 6th Viscount Fermoy in 1581 or 1582. David was about ten in 1583 when the Desmond Rebellions ended with the killing of Gerald FitzGerald, the rebel earl.{{Sfn|Cokayne|1916|p=[https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo04coka/page/253/ 253, line 15]|ps=. "Finally he was slain while under attainder, 11 Nov. 1583, at Glenagintigha, near Tralee, co. Kerry, by one Daniel Kelly."}}

His mother was still alive in 1590, but she predeceased his father, who remarried to Catherine FitzGerald, third daughter of the rebel earl by his second wife, Eleanor Butler.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, left column, line 57]|ps=. "... and 2ndly Catherine, 3rd dau. [daughter] of Gerald, 16th Earl of Desmond; by the latter who survived him he had no issue, yet by another inquisition he is said to have had his children by her;"}}

Before 1593 Roche married Joan, daughter of James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant, by his wife Ellen MacCarthy Reagh.{{Sfn|Dunlop|Cunningham|2004|p=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0198613970/page/460/ 460, left column]|ps=. "Roche married, before 1593, Joan daughter of James FitzRichard Barry, Viscount Buttevant, and his wife, Ellen MacCarthy Reagh."}} His wife's family, the de Barrys, were Old English like his own and descended from Philip de Barry, who had come to Ireland from Wales in 1183.{{Sfn|Furnivall|1896|p=[https://archive.org/details/englishconquesto00girauoft/page/126 126]|ps=. "Nat longe ther aftyr, come into Irland Richard de Cogan, Miles brother, wyth fair meygne from the kynge I-sent; & ther-aftyr yn the begynnyge of Marce come Phylype de barry, a man ..."}}

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David and Joan had five sons:

1. Maurice (1593–1670), who succeeded as the 8th Viscount Fermoy{{Sfn|Dunlop|Cunningham|2004|p=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0198613970/page/460/ 460, right column, line 20]|ps=. "He was succeeded by his son Maurice Roche, eighth Viscount Roche of Fermoy (1592/3–1670) ..."}}
2. John, deaf and dumb, died unmarried{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 25]|ps=. "II. John, deaf and dumb, who d. unm. [died unmarried] after 1642."}}
3. Theobald, married Julia, daughter of Dominick Sarsfield, 1st Viscount Sarsfield, but had no issue{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 26]|ps=. "III. Theobald (Sir), who m. [married] Julia, dau. [daughter] of Dominick, 1st Viscount Kilmallock and left no issue by the said wife ..."}}
4. Ulick, married Gyles (Cecilia) daughter of John O'Conor Kerry, of Carrigfoyll, County Kerry{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 30]|ps=. "IV. Ulick, who m. [married] Gyles (Cecilia) dau. [daughter] of John O'Çonor Kerry, of Carrigfoyll, co. Kerry ..."}}
5. Redmond, accompanied St. Leger to Waterford in 1641 to submit the insurgents.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 36]|ps=. "V. Redmond, who 4 December, 1641, accompanied Sir William St. Leger, President of Munster, to quell the rebellion in co. Waterford. He m. [married] 1st Joan, dau. [daughter] and co-heir to Sir John Dowdall of Kilfinny, Knt.; and 2ndly Alice ..."}}

—and four daughters:

1. Ellen, who married first Donal MacCarthy Reagh of Kilbrittain, secondly Charles MacCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry, and thirdly Thomas Fitzmaurice, 4th son of Thomas Fitzmaurice, 18th Baron Kerry.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 42]|ps=. "I. Ellen m. [married] 1st to Donnel McCarthy Reagh, of Killbritain, co. Cork, Esq.; 2ndly to Charles Viscount Muskerry, and 3rdly to Thomas Fitzmaurice, 4th son of Thomas 18th Lord Kerry."}}
2. Elinor
3. Joan
4. Amy, married John Everard of Fethard, County Tipperary, as his second wife.{{Efn|John Everard of Fethard married Catherine Comerford, who predeceased him.{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/page/186/ 187, left column, line 11]|ps=. "Married to Catherine Comerford."}} Amy seems to have been his second wife.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, right column, line 47]|ps=. "IV. Amy or Catherine who m. John Everard, of Fethard, co. Tipperary, Esq."}}{{Sfn|O'Hart|1892|p=[https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/page/186/ 187, Note]|ps=. "D. Amia alias Roche, relicta Johannis ..."}}}}

Roche succeeded his father as the 7th Viscount Fermoy on 24 October 1600.{{Sfn|Burke|1866|p=[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n459/ 455, left column, line 54]|ps=. "... 24 October 1600, he [Maurice, the 6th Viscount] d. [died] at his seat at Glanogher ..."}} He is also counted as 2nd Viscount.{{Sfn|Ó Siochrú|2009|loc=Beginning|ps=. "Roche, David (c.1573–1635), 2nd Viscount Fermoy, politician, was the eldest surviving son ..."}}

Queen Elizabeth I died on 24 March 1603. Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, her Lord Deputy of Ireland, proclaimed James VI and I as King. Several Irish towns, dominated by Old English families delayed the proclamation still hoping for a Catholic succession. This was the case of Cork.{{Sfn|Gibson|1861|p=[https://archive.org/details/historyofcountyc02gibsiala/page/13/ 13]|ps=. "The religious element in this rebellion was paramount. Though a large portion of the inhabitants of Cork were of Danish, Norman, and Saxon descent, they were sincere Catholics&mnsp..."}} On 11 April Mountjoy sent Captain Morgan to Cork to proclaim James.{{Sfn|Smith|1893|p=[https://archive.org/details/ancientandprese00socigoog/page/n58/ 52]|ps=. "The Lord Deputy Mountjoy, on the 11th of April (A.D. 1603) sent Captain Morgan to Cork to proclaim King James I. On which occasion Sir George Thornton, one of the commissioners of Munster, applied to Thomas Sarsfield, then mayor, who answered that by the charter he might take time to consider it."}} Thornton and Fermoy, as he now was, proclaimed James I as King on 13 April 1603, outside the walls in the northern suburbs{{Sfn|Cokayne|1890|p=[https://archive.org/details/completepeerage03cokahrish/page/n328/ 327]|ps=. "7. David (Roche) Viscount Roche of Fermoy [I. [Ireland]], s. [son] and h. [heir], probably by his first wife. He proclaimed James I as King, 13 Apr 1603, at Cork, the Mayor refusing to do so."}} when the mayor, Thomas Sarsfield, hesitated to do so.{{Sfn|Fitzpatrick|1989|p=[https://archive.org/details/seventeenthcentu0000fitz/page/8/ 8]|ps=. "Within weeks of the conclusion of the Nine Years' War and Tyrone's surrender, the very towns to which the earl had appealed for support and which had remained stubborn in their loyalty to the crown, suddenly revolted in a mass profession of their Catholicism."}}{{Sfn|Smith|1893|p=[https://archive.org/details/ancientandprese00socigoog/page/n59/ 53]|ps=. "Upon this delay to proclaim King James, Sir George Thornton told him he would proceed to the ceremony without them. Mead, the recorder, answered that he had no authority to do it in their liberty, nor would the citizens suffer it ; however. Sir George, with Lord Roche and about eight hundred soldiers, proclaimed his majesty in the north suburb, near Shandon castle;"}}

Fermoy sat in the House of Lords of the Irish Parliament 1613–1615,{{Sfn|Cokayne|1926|p=[https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n158/ 299, line 22]|ps=. "He sat in the Parl. [I.] 1613 "}} the only Irish Parliament of James I. He coordinated the opposition to the electoral abuses of James I, together with Jenico Preston, 5th Viscount Gormanston{{Sfn|Ó Siochrú|2009|loc=2nd paragraph |ps=. "In 1613 he entered parliament (the first held since 1585) and coordinated, along with Jenico Preston (qv), 5th Viscount Gormanston, opposition to the electoral abuses perpetrated by the government."}}

The Irish Parliament of 1634–1635 was opened on 14 July 1634{{Sfn|Gardiner|1899|p=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati60stepuoft/page/274/ 274, left column]|ps=. "Parliament met on 14 July 1634."}}{{Sfn|Kearney|1959|p=[https://archive.org/details/straffordinirela00kear/page/53/ 53]|ps=. "Parliament met on 14 July [1634] and the first session lasted until 2 August."}} by the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Thomas Wentworth{{Sfn|Wedgwood|1961|p=[https://archive.org/details/thomaswentworthf0000wedg/page/150/ 150]|ps=. "Parliament met on July 14th, 1634. Wentworth rode down in state ..."}} (later to become Lord Strafford), who had taken up office in July 1633.{{Sfn|Yorke|1911||p=978, para 6|ps=. "... In January 1632 he had been named lord-deputy of Ireland, and arrived in Dublin in July 1633."}} Lord Fermoy, an old man, sat by proxy in the House of Lords of the Parliament 1634–1635.{{Sfn|House of Lords|1779|p=11, left column|ps=. "Die sabbati, 26o Julii 1634o ... Memorandum: That the Earl of Westmeath presented the like Proxy from the Lord Viscount of Fermoy, which accordingly was accepted."}}

Fermoy died on 22 March 1635 at Castlerochetown and was buried at Bridgetown Abbey.{{Sfn|Dunlop|1897|p=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofnati49stepuoft/page/68/ 68, left column, bottom]|ps=. "He died in the odour of loyalty at Castletown Roche on 22 March, 1635, and was buried on 12 April at the Abbey, Bridgetown."}} He was succeeded by his son Maurice as the 8th Viscount (also counted as the 3rd).

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• {{Cite book|last=Kearney |first=Hugh F. |date=1959 |title=Strafford in Ireland 1633–1641 – a Study in Absolutism |publisher=Manchester University Press |location=Manchester |oclc=857142293 |url=https://archive.org/details/straffordinirela00kear/}}
• {{Cite book|last=Lainé |first=P. Louis |date=1836 |title=Archives généalogiques et historiques de la noblesse de France |volume=Tome cinquième |trans-title=Genealogical and Historical Archives of the Nobility of France |chapter=Mac-Carthy |publisher=Imprimerie de Bethune et Plon |location=Paris |pages=1–102 |oclc=865941166 |language=fr |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/archivesgenealog05lain/page/n148/}}
• {{Cite book|last=O'Hart |first=John |author-link=John O'Hart |date=1892 |title=Irish Pedigrees: Or, the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation |edition=5th |volume=II |publisher=James Duffy & Co. |location=Dublin |oclc=7239210 |url=https://archive.org/details/irishpedigreesor02ohar/}} – Normans, English, Huguenots etc. (for Everard)
• {{Cite web|last=Ó Siochrú |first=Micheál |date=October 2009 |title=Roche, David |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography

|url=https://www.dib.ie/index.php/biography/roche-david-a7742 |access-date=3 August 2021}}

• {{Cite book|last=Smith |first=Charles |author-link=Charles Smith (topographer) |date=1893 |orig-date=1st pub. 1750 |title=The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of Cork |volume=II |publisher=Guy and Co. |location=Cork |oclc=559463963 |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientandprese00socigoog/}} – History
• {{Cite book|last=Wedgwood |first=Cicely Veronica |date=1961 |title=Thomas Wentworth, First Earl of Strafford 1593–1641. A Revaluation |publisher=Jonathan Cape |location=London |oclc=1068569885 |url=https://archive.org/details/thomaswentworthf0000wedg/ |url-access=registration}}
• {{Cite EB1911|last=Yorke |first=Philip Chesney |date=1911 |wstitle=Strafford, Thomas Wentworth, Earl of |volume=25 |pages=978–980}}

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