User:Jordan Teutonicus

Sir Jordan de Sackville is the reputed progenitor of the Jordan family with origins in County Down, Northern Ireland.

As noted in following extract from J W Hanna’s articles in the Downpatrick Recorder of 23rd Jan 1869, ''the Jordan family of Dunsford are presumed to have been cadets of the De Sackvilles, now represented by the Duke of Dorset, and who were formerly proprietors of Ardglass and Holywood, in this county, and the lands of Clonbeg and Clonelly, county Limerick. King John, during his second visit to Ireland in 1210, landed on the 12th of July of that year from Carlingford at the Castle of Jordan de Saukevile, now Ardglass, where he remained two days.

''Jordan de Saukeville or Sackville, was an English Baron, whose ancestor Herdebrand de Sackville, came from Sauqueville, in Normandy, with the Conqueror in 1066, and acquired large possessions in England. His son, grandson, and greatgrandson, were all named Jordan, the last Sir Jordan dying in 1207, without issue, when he was eventually succeeded by his nephew, Sir Jordan, at whose castle King John landed. He having engaged in the wars of the Barons against King John, was deprived of his English estates, as also of Ardglass, Clanbeg, Clanelly, and others in Ireland. John’s son, King Henry III, restored him after his accession, but his grandson, another Jordan, having joined Simon de Montfort, the great Earl of Leicester, and the founder of the House of Commons, was taken prisoner at the battle of Evesham, in 1265, and died in 1272.''

''After this the estates were again forfeited to the Crown, only a portion of the English being restored to his son Andrew. It is most likely that in the confusions which ensued, the English power being greatly crippled in Ireland, the Jordans stepped in and were able to keep a castle in Ardglass, Dunsford, and other adjoining lands.''

''Afterwards, in the reign of Henry IV, the greater part of Ardglass and the surrounding country had passed to Janico d’Artois, a Gascon chief, who had become a special favourite of Richard II, and from his daughter it descended to the Fitzgeralds. Fynes Moryson relates that in the latter end of Tyrone’s wars, Simon Jordan snr. successfully defended his castle in Ardglass from the attacks of the O’Neills, until relieved by the Deputy, Lord Mountjoy, in June 1601. An Ulster Inquisition, taken at Downpatrick, 12th Sept. 1632, finds that this Simon Jordan had been seized in his lifetime of Dunsford, Crowe, &c., that he died 20th May 1620, leaving Symon Jordan jnr his son and heir, then 30 years old, and married, to whom he had granted Dunsford, &c., 4th July 1610. Later Inquisitions find that Symon, junior, was also seized of Ballywalter, as before mentioned, sold to Richard West; Tullyrusselly, now Russell’s Quarter, beside Downpatrick, which he sold to Patrick Wardlaw, of Bishop’s Court; also Dunsford, Lysmore, with an Island called Illanerly or Island-voddy, part of same; Crowe, 120 acres; one close beside Downpatrick, containing three acres (now Jordan’s Acre); a castle and seven tenements, with gardens and castilage.