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BURGH, deBURGH of Ireland

WILLIAM DE BURGH d. 1204 Ireland. Issue:

RICHARD DE BURGH d. 1243 Ireland m. Igidia de Laci, daughter of Walter de Laci. Issue"

WALTER DE BURGH, Earl of Ulster, d. 1271 Ulster, Ireland, buried 1271 Athassel Abbey in Ireland m. Avelina Fitzjohn.

THEOBALD DE BURGH b. 1302 Ireland.

WILLIAM DE BURGH

THOMAS DE BURGH d. 1315 Ireland.

RICHARD DE BURGH, Second Earl of Ulster, fourth Earl of Connaugh, d. ca 1259 Connaugh, Ireland, d. 1326 Ulster, Ireland m. Margaret de Burgh, daughter of Baron John de Burgh. Issue:

1. DeBurgh m. Lord John FitzThomas.

2. Catherine de Burgh m. Maurice FitzThomas.

3. Walter de Burgh d. 1304 Ulster, Ireland.

4. Thomas de Burgh d. 1346 Ulster, Ireland.

5. Edmund de Burgh.

6. Elizabeth de Burgh m. Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick.

7. Matilda de Burgh m. Gilbert de Clare.

8. Eleanor de Burgh.

9. Joan de Burgh m. (1) Lord Thomas FitzJohn (2) Sir John de Arcy.

10. John de Burgh d. 1313 Ireland m. 1308 Elizabeth de Clare (d. 11/4/1360 Monmouth,Wales), daughter of Gilbert de Clare (b. 9/2/1243 Christ Church, Hampshire, England, d. 12/7/1295 Monmouth Wales m. 1290), Earl of Gloucester and Hereford, and his wife, Princess Joan (of Acre) Plantagenet (b. 1272 Acre, England, d. 1307), daughter of King Edward I of England and his wife, Eleanor. Elizabeth de Clare was the founder of Clare College in Cambridge, England in 1359. She m. (2) Lord Theobald Vernon (3) Robert Damory, Baron of Armoy. Issue:

(a) William de Burgh, Sixth lord of Connaugh, Third Earl of Ulster, was b. 9/13/1312 Connaugh, Ireland, d. 6/6/1333 Ulster, Ireland (murdered by Robert de Mandeville) m. Lady Maud Plantagenet (b. 1298 Lancaster, England, d. ca 5/5/1377), daughter of Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster. Issue:

1. Lady Elizabeth de Burgh b. 7/6/1332 Castle, Carrick Fergus, Antrim, Ireland, d. 12/1363 Dublin, Ireland, buried 3/11/1363/4 Priory Clare, Suffolk, England m. ca 9/9/1342 at the Tower of London, Lionel Plantagenet, the Duke of Clarence.

Ulster was originally known by the Celtic name of Ulaid and the earliest sources dated back to the 7th century. is located on the northerly province of the island of Ireland. It encompasses the counties of Donegal, Cavan, Monaghan, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, Antrim, Down and Armagh. The counties of Antrim, Fermanagh, Tyrone, Derry, Down and Armagh make up Northern Ireland. A diverse province with a population in excess of 1,800,000, Ulster closely follows Leinster as the most populous area in the island of Ireland. The principal business centre being the grand city of Belfast.



Clare College in Cambridge was founded in 1326, and generously endowed a few years later by Lady Elizabeth de Clare (Lady de Burgh), a granddaughter of King Edward I (1272-1307). In 1336 King Edward III (1327-77) granted licence to his cousin Elizabeth de Burge to establish a collegium and was known as Clare Hall as early as 1339. In 1359, a year before her death, Lady Elizabeth de Clare promulgated a set of statutes by which the new college was to be governed. In 1521 a fire destroyed most of early muniments of the colleges.

Sources: Dictionary of National Biography; New Century of Names (1954) by Clarence L. Barnhart; Americans of Royal Descent by Charles H. Browning.