Index of Names in Irish Annals: Anglo-Norman Surnames: Cogán, Gogán, de Cogán, Gogán

by Mari Elspeth nic Bryan (Kathleen M. O'Brien)

© 2000-2015 by Kathleen M. O'Brien. All rights reserved.
Version 2.0, updated 21 May 2015


Anglo-Norman Surnames: Cogán, Gogán, de Cogán, Gogán

Background:

Spellings:

What we know as a set of Irish Annals are manuscripts that were each compiled during a particular time period, usually using older material as sources. For example, when the Annals of the Four Masters were written from 1632 to 1636, they covered events that occurred centuries and millenia before (including legendary history). So, when an entry in this set of annals refers to a person who lived in the year 738, the spelling used for that person's name is very likely not using the spelling that would have been used in 738.

Standard forms of this name (based on spelling systems of different periods) would be:

Frequency & Dates:

Number of men found in the annals with this name: 9
Found in Years: 1171, 1177, 1178, 1179, 1182, 1183, 1206, 1235, 1248, 1257, 1264, 1270, 127, 1278, 1279, 1285, 1311, 1316, 1317

Research Notes:

"Nor. 'de Cogan,' i.e., of Cogan, a parish in Glamorganshire. This surname came into Ireland at the time of the Anglo-Norman invasion. Milo de Cogan was the first constable of Dublin. He received, jointly with Robert FitzStephen, a grant of the whole of Co. Cork from Henry II. This name is now pronounced Gogán, sometimes Gógan..." Woulfe (p. 255 s.n. de Cogán)

Sources:

Further information about the byname de Cogan, may be found in:

The Sources page lists the Annals referenced below. Information about secondary sources is included on that page as well.


Raw Data

In the table below, I have separated individuals with a blank line. That is, when there are multiple entries in the annals that refer to a single person, those entries are grouped together.

Within the list of entries refering to a single person, I have sorted the entries primarily by orthography when it is obvious that what I am seeing is the same entry showing up in multiple annals. The entries that tend to use older spellings are listed first.

Special factors which may affect name usage are marked in the context column.

ANindicates a member of an Anglo-Norman family
Nindicates a Norseman
Rindicates a person holding a religious office
Sindicates a person from Scotland

NOTE: The Annals referenced below under the code letters A, B, C, E, & F tend to use later spellings than the other Annals. In some cases, the spellings listed in these Annals may not be appropriate for the year referenced in the Annal entry.

In some Gaelic scripts, there is a character that looks approximately like a lowercase f, but without the crossbar. This character (represented by an underscored , e, in the entries below) sometimes represents e and sometimes ea depending upon the context of the text.

[Standardized Gaelic form of this person's name] (modern literal translation of person's name)
AnnalsEntryContextCitation (formatting preserved)
 
[] (Miles de Cogan, d. 1182-1183)
TT1171.2ANMiligh Gogan
TT1171.2ANMiligh Gogan
TT1171.3ANMiligh Gogan
TT1171.6ANMiligh Gogan
LCLC1171.4ANMilóid Cogan ["Milo de Cogan"]
MCB1MCB1177.1ANMilis Gogan
MCB1MCB1178.3ANMilis Gogan
MCB1MCB1178.4ANMilis Gogan
AH1179ANMilo Coganus
LCLC1182.5ANMilid Gocán ["Milo de Cogan"]
MCB1MCB1183.1ANMilis Gogan
 
[] (John de Cogan, d. ?)
CM1235.6ANEoan Gogan
LCLC1235.5ANEoan Gocán ["John Gocan"]
MCB1MCB1248.1ANSeaan mac Tomais Mic Gearailt, seinisgal na Muman
 
[] (Geoffrey de Cogan, d. 1248)
MCB1MCB1206.1ANSethfraigh Gogan
II1248.4ANSefraig Gogan
MCB1MCB1248.1ANSefraigh mac Seoain Moir Gogan ["Geoffrey son of John Mór de Cogan"]
 
[] (John Cogan, d. 1257-1264)
AH1257ANJohannes Cogan, Justitiarius Hiberniae
CM1264.8ANIusdis na h-Ereann, Seoan Gogan
 
[] (J. Cogan, d. 1270)
MFMF1270.7AN J. de Cogan junior
 
[] (John de Cogan, d. 1277-1279)
AH1264ANJohannem Cogan
II1277.4ANIohannes de Cogan
AH1278ANJohannes Cogan
II1279.3ANSeoan de Gogan
 
[] (John Cogan, d. 1311)
II1285.4ANh-Oean Gogan
AH1311ANJohannes Cogan
II1311.10ANSeoan Gogan, barun mor do feraib Muman
 
[] (Miles Cogan, d. 1316)
LCLC1316.3ANMílidh Goccan ["Miles Cogan"]
II1316.4ANMylo de Cogan, heres Coganorum
 
[] (David de Cogan, d. ?)
II1317.2ANDauid de Cogan


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