Geoffrey Mo'r Cusack

• Preferred Name: Geoffrey Mo'r Cusack^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: Geoffrey De Cusack
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: in Killeen, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.534 LONG: E6.5884 with note: Killeen Chantry church, by the hill of Tara. Standardized.
  
• Christening: 1153
  
• FSID: KLYH-ZS1
  
• Birth: ABT 1157 in Guyenne, France at LATI: N4.69 LONG: E0.087 with note: online - Cusack - Geoffrey Cusack b- Guyenne, France - came to Ireland by invitation of Hugh Lacy, Lord of Meath, to help colonize Meath in 1175 - he Held land in Meath under his relative Adam de Feipo, Baron of Skreen, Co Meath, Ireland. [tidied up punctuation, etc] Suggest an 'abt' dob similar to the spouse to give the database something to work with. The place needs to be standardized because not in the drop-down menu provided by Family Search.
  
• Death: ABT 1215 in Killeen, Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland at LATI: N3.534 LONG: E6.5884 with note: Suggest an 'abt' date rather than a range of years. Standardized.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  While not particularly common, the name Cusack is historically associated with a number of variant forms, such as de Cussac, de Ciusak, de Cíosóg, de Ci'omhso'g, MacIosog, and Mac Isog. Irish emigrants to America were given alternative spellings by immigration officers, based on their pronunciationcitation. Hence, Kuzak, Kuzack, Cusick, and Cussack are modern variants in America.
  
  The first mention of de Cusack's arrival in Ireland appears in The History of England by Paul Rapin de Thoyras. This records that a 'Seigneur de Cusac' had accompanied William, Duke of Normandy in his Conquest of England in 1066.The Cusack Shield in its most commonly used form shows a longhaired man being run through the head by a spear. This may refer to the murder by the Mayors of the Palace [The Cusacks previous occupation] Clergy and Nobles of his court of Good King Dagonbert Christmas Day 679AD.The Cross of Llorraine is Silver and Black so it is possible that the Cusacks are off a cadet or the main line of the family taking refuge in Ireland, in lands held there beside the Federal Capital of Ireland 'The Hill of Tara' since Carolingian Days. The motto is Fortuna Virtus Vitrix and as with most inflected languages has many alternate meanings, Fortuna being the plus and minus of life, virtus the Roman endurance or the 'nature of life', vitrix 'conquest or self conquest'. The Mac Isog variation of the Gaelic Version of the name may be relevant if translated from the mixed Gaelic and Frankish as son of the ousted. Qui ooussa may have this meaning in the old Frankish. The other motto of Ave Maria Gratia Plena may have a double meaning.The local authority in Cussac Fort Medoc favors Cussac as meaning 'horse market' 'horse fair'. The de Cusack Royal French connection can be studied in the Generlogiques et Historique de la Noblesse de France and also in Genealogie de la Maison de Cusack. The particules - "de" or "de la" - are badges of nobility and are only recognised by letters patent from a king of France.
  
  The de Cusack family originally held land and influence over present day Cussac-Lamarque in the Medoc region of France, north of Bordeaux in what was then Aquitaine.
  Geoffrey de Cusack came to Ireland close to the time that the first Normans landed in Ireland in 1169.
  Geoffrey was granted the manor of Killeen, which he orded to be constructed on 3,346 acres (13.54 km2), by Adam de Feypo who was a relative that obtained his lands by charter and like Adam he was subject to Knight Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath. the family served as Lairds of Killeen as one of the longest lines until In 1399 when the manors and estates of the Lordship of Killeen passed by the marriage of Lady Joan de Cusack to Christopher Plunkett of Rathragen. Cusack is an Irish family name of french/Norman origin, originally from Cussac in Guienne (Aquitaine), France. The surname died out in England, but is common in Ireland, where it was imported at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century, Seigneur De Cusac accompanied William the Duke of Nor. in 1066AD. .Both the medieval and modern Cusack lines and genealogy of Geoffrey's offspring have been traced in great detail by Lt. Colonel Hubert Gallwey.

• m. 1188 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

1. Adam Cusack, b. ABT 1189 in St Mary's, County Dublin, Ireland     d. 1248 in Mayo, Ballinrobe, County Mayo, Ireland

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Geoffrey De Cusack -
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