Events from the year 1603 in Ireland.
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Elizabeth died on March 24, 1603, at the age of 70
On the death of Elizabeth in 1603, he became James I of England. He is thus known as James VI and I.
On March 30, 1603, Hugh O'Neill, the Earl of Tyrone and leader of the nine-year Irish rebellion, surrendered to Charles Blount, Lord Mountjoy, the English Lord Deputy in Ireland, at Mellifont Abbey. Tyrone threw himself on the floor and groveled at Mountjoy's feet, begging for the Queen's mercy, unaware that Elizabeth had died merely weeks before. He remained on his knees for an hour before being sent away; later he was made to submit to the Lords of the Irish Counciland to the Irish Parliament in Dublin.
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Keating, on the other hand, a Catholic diocesan priest, a descendant of the early Anglo-Norman settlers, from a gaelicised area in south Co. Tipperary, left Ireland at the end of the sixteenth century, studied in Rheims where he imbibed Tridentine doctrine and went on to the Irish college in Bordeaux, founded in 1603, presumably to teach theology.
The priest, Seathrún Céitinn (ca. 1569 – ca. 1644) who was known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th-century poet and historian. In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed for Bordeaux under the charge of Fr Diarmaid MacCarthy to begin their studies at the Irish College which had just been founded in that city by Cardinal François de Sourdis, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
However, James I in 1603 confiscated all the lands belonging to the Abbey and effectively ended the presence of the Canon Regulars in the Abbey.
The public peace being thus established, the State proceeded next to establish the public justice in every part of the realm; and to that end, Sir George Cary, who was a prudent governor and a just, and made a fair entry into the right way of reforming this kingdom, did in the first year of His Majesty's reign make the first sheriffs that ever were made in Tyrone and Tyrconnel, and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron, and myself thither, the first justices of assize that ever sat in those countries; and in that circuit we visited all the shires of that province.
1603. Sir George Carey, Treasurer at War, June 1, was made Lord Deputy; he, in the first year of his majesty's reign, made the first sheriffs that ever served in Tyrowen and Tyrconnell, and shortly after sent Sir Edmund Pelham, Chief Baron, and Sir John Davies of Ireland, the first Jusices of Assize in those countries, which were welcome to the Commons, though distateful to the Irish Lords.
Born 1603
William Piers died in 1603 and is believed to have been buried in Carrickfergus.