De La Feild family genealogy

Of Derrynashally, County Monaghan[1]

Arms: Per pale or and ar. a lion ramp. gu. armed and langued az. charged on the shoulder with a trefoil slipped of the field, a crescent for diff.

Robert de la Feild, of Knockbuy; co. Monaghan, of the family of Paniston, had:

2. James, of Derrynashelly, co. Monaghan, who d. 19th Feb., 1638, s.p. He m. Mary, dau. of Art Oge O’Neill.

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[1] Feild: This name has been modernized Delafield, Delafeld, Field, and Feld. Of the De la Feild family were the Delafields of Fieldstown, county Meath, from whom, on his maternal grandmother’s side (a Delafield or De la Feld), is descended the Rev. John Beaufort Berkeley Barter, M.R.I.A., F.R.G.S.I., F.R.H. & Arch. A.I., F.R.Z.S., etc., of Glasthule Lodge, Kingstown, county Dublin, and British Chaplain, Turin, Italy. The De La Feild family originally came from Alsace, and Vorarlberg in the Austrian Tyrol. A branch of the same family were Counts in Westphalia, and Barons in Pomerania—now entirely extinct. The Counts De La Feld of Alsace were very famous in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. They entertained Pope St. Leo IX., when he consecrated Strasburg Cathedral; were great benefactors to the Church; and were distinguished Counts of the Holy Roman Empire. The ruins of the Castle of the Counts De La Feld of Alsace are still to be seen; and the Vorarlberg branch of the family existed, until recently, at the Castle of Feldkircher in the Austrian Tyrol. The last Count of the family that we had any knowledge of was Count John Delafeld, who was married to a daughter of the Earl of Limerick. He is mentioned by Dodd in his Peerage and Baronetage of 1857, as the Rev. Count John Dela Feld, and as married to the above named lady.

The Rev. John Beaufort Berkeley Barter, above mentioned, can therefore claim descent from King Edward the First of England, both paternally through his grandmother Elizabeth Berkeley, descended from Edward I. through the Lords Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle; and, maternally, through his grandmother Sarah De la Field or De la Feld, descended from the Delafields of Fieldstown, who intermarried with the ancient Earls of Ormonde, and through that marriage brought in the blood of the Princess Elizabeth Plantagenet, daughter of King Edward I., who was mar. to Humphrey De Bohun, Earl of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, and Hereditary High Constable of England.