Robert Mac Wattin
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Robert Mac Wattin, alias Robert Barrett, was an Anglo-Irish lord who was alive c. 1413.
Biography
Mac Wattin was a member of a branch of the Barrett family of north Connacht, descended from a Batin or Wattin Barrett, alive c. 1300. (Knox, p. 121).[not in citation given]
According to an entry sub anno 1413 in the Annals of the Four Masters:
- "Henry Barrett was taken prisoner in the church of Airech-Locha-Con (Lough Conn) by Mac Wattin (i.e. Robert), who carried him away by force, after profaning the place. But Mac Wattin passed not a night in which the saint of the place (Tigearnan of Airech) did not appear to him in a vision, demanding the prisoner, until he obtained his request at last; and Mac Wattin granted a quarter of land to Tighearnan Airich for ever, as an eric for having violated him."
Knox lists him as a son of Henry Mer Mac Wattin (died 1399), making him a great-great grandson of Batin Barrett. Robert's great-grandson, Richard, would become Bishop of Killala.[not in citation given]
References
External links
- Part 5 of Annals of the Four Masters - M1413.1 (archived 2012)
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