John Wogan

Sir John Wogan or John de Wogan, styled lord of Picton (died 1321) was a Cambro-Norman judge who served as Justiciar of Ireland from 1295 to 1313. There are several dubious theories about Wogan's ancestry, and uncertainty exists about his wives, sons, and other relations. He came to have lands in Pembrokeshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Wiltshire, and Oxfordshire. He was a justice in eyre in England in 1281–4, and returned to Ireland in 1285. and organised a two-year truce between the feuding Burkes and Fitzgeralds (Geraldines). In 1296 he organised a force with Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, Theobald Butler, and John FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare, to assist Edward I in his war against the Scots; He was also a diligent judge, who held the assizes regularly.

In February 1308, under orders from the new king Edward II, Wogan suppressed the Knights Templars in Ireland. He arrested them, made an inventory of their possessions, and imprisoned them at the Castle of Dublin, to which they had to answer to the Archbishop and his vicar. In June 1308 Wogan's forces were defeated by the O'Tooles and O'Byrnes, who were harrying The Pale from the Wicklow Mountains.

Either the same John Wogan or his son of the same name returned to Ireland in 1316 as advisor to Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, who countered Edward Bruce's invasion of Ireland.