D'Arcy (No. 1.) family genealogy
Arms: Az. semée of crosses crosslets and three cinquefoils ar. Crest: On a chapeau gu. turned up erm. a bull sa. armed or. Motto: Un Dieu un Roi.
This family derive their origin from the Emperor Charlemagne (or Charles the Great), and were of great eminence in France. David de Arcie assumed this surname from “Castle de Arcie,” his chief seat, situate within thirty miles of Paris; and was the ancestor of De Arcie modernized D’Arcy.[1] The Irish O’Dorchaidhe (see the “Darcy” pedigree, p. 401, Vol. I.) is the origin of Darcy and Dorcy; some of whom have changed the name to D’Arcy.
1. David de Arcie, of “Castle de Arcie,” in France.
2. Christopher: his son; who, with some of his vassals and tenants, went to the wars of the Holy Land, where he ended his days; leaving no more issue (that we can find) than one son, named Thomas.
3. Thomas: son of Christopher.
4. Sir Richard: his son; was a powerful man in France, and joined William, Duke of Normandy, in his conquest of England, where, after he was settled, William gave large possessions to the said Sir Richard.
5. Oliver: his son.
6. Thomas (2): his son.
7. John: his son.
8. Richard (2): his son.
9. Thomas (3): his son.
10. Sir John D’Arcy (named “Le Cousin”): his son. This Sir John was sent by King Edward the Second into Ireland as lord justice; where, A.D. 1334, he mar. the Lady Joan, dau. of Rickard de Burgo, the Red Earl of Ulster. From this marriage descend all the D’Arcies of Ireland.
11. William: his son.
12. Sir John: his son.
13. William (2): his son; who was at the battle of Knocktuagh.
14. John (4): his son.
15. John (5): his son.
16. Sir William: his son.
17. George: his son; had four brothers—1. Thomas, 2. Edmond, 3. Robert, 4. Walter.
18. William (4): son of George.
19. Christopher D’Arcy: his son; had a brother named George.
Notes
[1] D’Arcy: Of this family was Sir John D’Arcy, Knt., one of the heroes of Cressy, who was Constable of Trim Castle from 1326 to 1334. His son William (b. 1330) was seated at Platten, county Meath, where his descendants resided for many generations, until Nicholas D’Arcy, a Captain in the Army of King James II., was attainted and his estates forfeited. Some portions of them were subsequently regranted to his son and heir George D’Arcy of Dunmoe, county Meath. Cornet Nicholas D’Arcy, who appears to have been the Captain Nicholas D’Arcy here mentioned, fought through the Jacobite war; was wounded at Derry; and shortly before the Battle of the Boyne, being in command of one hundred and sixty men at Killeshandra, was compelled to surrender to Colonel Wolseley. He was attainted in 1691 with his son George.
Patrick D’Arcy of Kiltulla was the seventh son of James “Reveagh” D’Arcy (born in 1598), who was Governor of Galway and Vice-President of Connaught in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He was a member of the Parliament assembled in Dublin in 1640; a member of the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics in 1642-1647; died in Dublin in 1668; and was buried at Kilconnell, near Aughrim.