James Fitz Edmond Cotter | |
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| Born | c. 1630 Anngrove, County Cork, Ireland |
| Died | 1705 Anngrove |
| Buried | Carrigtwohill, County Cork, Ireland. |
| Allegiance | Royalist, Jacobite |
| Rank | Brigadier General |
| Commands | A company of infantry and later a regiment of cavalry. Governor of Montserrat. Governor of the City of Cork. Commander of the military forces of a number of Irish counties. |
| Battles/wars | English Civil War, Battle of Worcester, Battle of Sedgemoor, Williamite War in Ireland |
| Awards | Knighthood |
Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter (Irish: Séamus Buidhe Mac Coitir or Séamus Mac Éamonn Mhic Coitir; c. 1630–1705) was a soldier, a colonial governor and the commander-in-chief of King James's forces, in the Irish Counties of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary and Kerry. He was a prominent political figure in the south of Ireland and was of Royalist and Jacobite sympathies. He was also a member of the Irish Cotter family of Norse-Gaelic origins. He was born around 1630, the second son of Edmond Fitz Garrett Cotter of Anngrove and Elizabeth Connell of Barryscourt, was knighted in 1685–1686, and died in 1705.