Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster

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Walter de Burgh
1st Earl of Ulster
Arms of de Burgh: Or, a cross gules.[1]
Tenure1264–1271
PredecessorRichard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught
SuccessorRichard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Native nameWalter de Búrca
Other titles2nd Lord of Connaught
Bornc. 1230
Died28 July 1271
Galway
Spouse(s)Lady Maud de Lacy (1264)
Aveline FitzJohn Fitzgeoffrey
IssueRichard Óg de Burgh
Theobald de Burgh
William de Burgh
Thomas de Burgh
Egidia de Burgh
ParentsRichard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught
Egidia de Lacy

Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, 2nd Lord of Connaught (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d’-BER; c. 1230 – 28 July 1271) also spelt Burke or Bourke, was an Irish peer from the House of Burgh.

Biography

De Burgh was the second son of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught and Egidia de Lacy. He founded Athassel Priory.

In 1243, he succeeded his father as Lord of Connacht. In a royal order from Westminster in September 1247, Sir John Fitzgeoffrey was charged by the king with seizing the lands of Walter de Burgh's older brother Richard, who had died. The de Burgh lands in Connaught were being held by John de Livet, likely the son of Gilbert de Lyvet, one of the earliest Lord Mayors of Dublin and Marmaduke de Eschales (Scales).

In 1264, he married a cousin, Lady Maud de Lacy, only daughter and heiress of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (by his second wife, Emmeline de Riddlesford, the granddaughter of Walter de Riddlesford). That year De Burgh was created Earl of Ulster in her right.[2][3][citation needed] In 1270, he and Walter de Ufford, the Justiciar of Ireland, were defeated by Aedh mac Felim Ua Conchobair at Áth an Chip.

He married secondly Aveline, daughter of Sir John Fitzgeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Isabel Bigod.

He died, aged about 40, in Galway, and was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster ('The Red Earl of Ulster'). Other children were three sons, Theobald, William and Thomas, and daughter, Egidia, who married Sir James Stewart (1260–1309), 5th High Steward of Scotland.[4][5]

Ancestry

Notes

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London : Harrison & sons.
  2. ^ O'Donovan, John (1856). Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland. Hodges, Smith and Company. p. 393. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  3. ^ Banks, Thomas Christopher (1843). Baronia Anglica concentrata; or, a Concentrated Account of all the Baronies commonly called Baronies in Fee. Author. p. 206. Retrieved 28 December 2017.
  4. ^ Archer 1886.
  5. ^ Frame, Robin (2004). "Burgh, Walter de, first earl of Ulster (d. 1271), magnate and soldier". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3998. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 21 December 2021.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

References

  • Archer, Thomas Andrew (1886). "Burgh, Walter de" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis; Lines 73-30, 177B-8, 177B-9.
  • The Tribes and customs of Hy-Many, John O'Donovan, 1843
  • The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, Dublin, 1978.
  • The Anglo-Normans in Co. Galway: the process of colonisation, Patrick Holland, Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, vol. 41 (1987–88)
  • Excavation on the line of the medieval town defences of Loughrea, Co. Galway, J.G.A.& H.S., vol. 41 (1987–88)
  • Anglo-Norman Galway; rectangular earthworks and moated sites, Patrick Holland, J.G.A. & H.S., vol. 46 (1993)
  • Rindown Castle: a royal fortress in Co. Roscommon, Sheelagh Harbison, J.G.A. & H.S., vol. 47 (1995)
  • The Anglo-Norman landscape in County Galway; land-holdings, castles and settlements, Patrick Holland, J.G.A.& H.S., vol. 49 (1997)
  • Annals of Ulster at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
  • Annals of Tigernach at CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts at University College Cork
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Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster
Born: c. 1230 Died: 28 July 1271
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Earl of Ulster
1264–1271 		Succeeded by
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