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England. The privilege is still enjoyed by the Lords 

 Kingsale, whose right to it was confirmed by William III., 

 George I., and Queen Victoria." 



Ringrone was built on the site of a former house by the 

 twenty-eighth Baron, John Stapleton de Courcy, who died 

 in 1847, and was buried in Malborough church, where there 

 is a monument to his memory, of white marble, surmounted 

 by the arms of the family, and motto, "Vincit omnia 

 Veritas" (Truth conquers all things). It bears the fol- 

 lowing inscription : — 



"This Monument is erected to perpetuate the memory 

 of the Right Honourable John Stapleton de Courcy, 28th 

 Baron Kingsale, and Premier Baron of Ireland, whose 

 ancestors have obtained for themselves laurels which time 

 can never wither. He died at Ringrone House, in this 

 Parish, justly lamented, on the 7th day of January, 1847; 

 aged 42 years. 



Also the Honourable William Everard de Courcy, third 

 son of the above, who was born the 11th day of January, 

 1832, and died the 25th day of May in the same year." 



The particulars respecting the De Courcy family were 

 mostly gathered from a work on the "Aristocracy of the 

 Empire," by Richard Sprye. 



" The family of Courcy claims alliance with most of 

 the royal houses of Europe, paternally through the Dukes 

 of Lorraine, and maternally through the ducal house of 

 Normandy. Louis IV., King of France, born in 920, married 

 in 939, Gerberga, daughter of Henry I., Emperor of Ger- 

 many, by whom he had two sons, Lotharius, who suc- 

 ceeded to the French throne (and with whose son, Louis 

 V., the race of monarchs descended from Charlemagne 



