James Fitz Edmond Cotter Military person

Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter (Irish: Séamus Buidhe Mac Coitir or Séamus Mac Éamonn Mhic Coitir; c.1630–1705) was a soldier, a colonial governor and the commander-in-chief of King James's forces, in the Irish Counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Kerry. He was a prominent political figure in the south of Ireland and was of Royalist and Jacobite sympathies. He was also a member of the Irish Cotter family of Norse-Gaelic origins. He was born around 1630, the second son of Edmond Fitz Garrett Cotter of Anngrove and Elizabeth Connell of Barryscourt, was knighted in 1685–1686, and died in 1705.

Personal facts

James Fitz Edmond Cotter
Alias (AKA)Séamus Buidhe Mac Coitir
Birth place
County Cork
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1705
Resting place
Carrigtwohill , County Cork

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Military person

allegianceRoyalist Jacobite
military operations
English Civil War
Battle of Worcester
Battle of Sedgemoor
Williamite War in Ireland
military commandA company of infantry and later a regiment of cavalry. Governor of Montserrat. Governor of the City of Cork. Commander of the military forces of a number of Irish counties.

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