Jordan Óge de Exeter was an Anglo-Irish

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 knight

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 and Sheriff

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 of Connacht

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The younger son of Jordan de Exeter

Jordan de Exeter

Jordan de Exeter was an Anglo-Norman knight, Sheriff of Connacht, and ancestor of the Clan Siurtain Gaileng/Mac Siurtain/Mac Jordan of Connacht.-Life and family:...

 and Basilia de Bermingham, Jordan Óge first came to notice as Sheriff of Connacht in 1269, a post he held again in 1279. In 1280 he was Constable

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 of Roscommon

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 castle. Possessed of the cantred

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 of Erris

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 in Connaught, in the 1290s he held the barony of Athmethan, Waterford

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, from the King at a rent of £20 13s 4d. His first wife was Ismania, fl. 1302, "who seems to have been the hairess of a Christophre. Their son Jordan Bacach seems to have claimed lands in Cork

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 through Ismania [he] does not appear in Connaght history. It may be inferred that he succeeded to his father's Munster

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 estates, and John to the Connacht estates."

Jordan Óge became the heir of his nephew, Miler fitz Miler de Exeter, upon the latter's death in 1317. He had two sons, John na Conairte de Exeter - described as the lord of Athelethan in 1335, and Jordan Bacach de Exeter.

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