Joyce (family)
The Irish family Joyce ( Irish Seoige ) comes from England and came to Ireland during the reign of Edward I (1272-1307) . There she came into possession of large areas in the "Barony of Ross", in the counties of Galway and Mayo , which is also called "Joyce Country". The family is one of those 14 families that the Tribes of Galway ( English Tribes of Galway ) are called, and for centuries the city Galway and the surrounding areas in the Irish County Galway dominated.
The Galway family comes from the English lower class but was connected to a Welsh-British prince named Thomas Joyes. Thomas Joyes was also the name of the first Joyce who came to Ireland in 1283. He arrived with a fleet in Thomond in Munster and married Onorah O'Brien, the daughter of a clan chief of the O'Brien, and went with her to the west of Connacht . Here he acquired considerable land that his descendants still own today.
His son expanded the property. The Joyce were men known for their extraordinary stature, who for centuries inhabited the mountainous district of Duthaidh Sheodhoigh , which forms the Barony of Ross in County Galway, and for whom they were initially liable to the O'Flahertys .
Walter Jorz, Jorse or Joyce, the brother of Thomas Joyce, 1305-1310 Cardinal of Santa Sabina, was from 1307 Archbishop of Armagh . He resigned in 1311, and was succeeded by his brother Roland. The former was Edward II's confessor and author of several writings. Roland moved to Canterbury in 1322 and later to York . Henry Joyce was the only Joyce mayor of Galway from 1542-43.
The Joyce thrived in County Galway and Foxford, Mayo. The family was also prominent in Mervue, near Galway, and Woodquay in Galway City.
How or whether the family is related to the writer James Joyce is unknown.
A roundabout in Galway is named after the family.
literature
- Adrian Martyn: The Tribes of Galway: 1124-1642 , Galway, 2016. ISBN 978-0-9955025-0-5