Denis O'Driscoll, 1600–1650 (aged 50 years)

Name
Denis /O'Driscoll/
Type of name
birth name
Given names
Denis
Surname
O'Driscoll
Note: Denis (Dionisio, Donnchadh) O'Driscoll, O.F.M., Archbishop of Brindisi 1640-1650; first cousin of Dermicio.
Name
Dionisio /O'Driscol/
Type of name
also known as
Given names
Dionisio
Surname
O'Driscol
Note: Spanish form.
Birth
about 1600
Castlehaven, County Cork, Ireland
Citation details: p. 117
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Note: "Forty years of age in 1640"; Ughelli gives "portus Castri ... a Chastain" (Cuan a' Chaisleáin = Castlehaven).
Occupation
Archbishop of Brindisi
February 16, 1640
Brindisi, Italy
Citation details: pp. 112-117
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Note: Franciscan (Province of St James); Salamanca; consecrated at St Isidore's, Rome, April 1640; Roman agent for Eoghan Ruadh O'Neill 1649.
Death
about August 9, 1650 (aged 50 years)
Brindisi, Italy
Citation details: p. 117
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Note: See vacant by his death before 23 Aug 1651 (letter of Philip IV, Madrid, Fondo Santa Sede leg. 120).
Note

His nephew (sobrino) Juan David McCarthy was made cantor of Brindisi cathedral in Dec 1643, so a sister married a McCarthy. In 1634 he stated that his father and uncle lost their estates, "now held by an English heretic, the Earl of Castlehaven".

Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage Marriage — —
Marriage Marriage — —
himself
1600–1650
Birth: about 1600 — Castlehaven, County Cork, Ireland
Death: about August 9, 1650 — Brindisi, Italy
Birth
Citation details: p. 117
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Occupation
Citation details: pp. 112-117
Quality of data: secondary evidence
Death
Citation details: p. 117
Quality of data: secondary evidence