Margery de Burgh

Margery de Burgh
Born	1224 Galway, Ireland
Died	March 1 1252
Noble family	de Burgh
Spouse(s)	Theobald Le Botiller
Issue	Theobald Le Botiller Elizabeth Butler (Le Botiller)
Father	Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connaught
Mother	Egidia de Lacy

Margery de Burgh, was a Norman- Irish noblewoman and the wife of Theobald Le Botiller. She was a descendant of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and the ancestress of the Earls of Ormond.

Family and lineage

Margery de Burgh was born in Galway, Ireland, the eldest daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connacht and Justiciar of Ireland, and Egidia de Lacy. She had three brothers and three sisters, including Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster who married Aveline FitzJohn, by whom he had issue.

Margery's paternal grandparents were William de Burgh and More O'Brien, a granddaughter of Dermot MacMurrough, and a descendant of Brian Boru. Her maternal grandparents were Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim Castle in Meath and Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, and Margaret de Braose.

Marriage and issue

In 1242, Margery married Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland (1224–1248), the eldest son of Theobald le Botiller, Chief Butler of Ireland and his first wife, Joan, daughter of Geoffrey de Marsh (or Mareys), Knt., Justiciar of Ireland.

Margery and Theobald had two children:

• Theobald Butler, 4th Chief Butler of Ireland (1242- 26 September 1285), who married, in 1268, Joan FitzJohn ( died 26 May 1303), daughter of John Fitzgeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland, and Isabel Bigod. Joan was a younger sister of his uncle's wife, Aveline FitzJohn. The marriage produced issue, from whom descended the Earls of Ormond.
• Elizabeth Butler (Le Botiller)

Death

Margery's husband died December 26 1248. He was buried before 3 August 1248 at Arklow, Co. Limerick. On 27 April 1250, she made a fine to remarry.

Margery de Burgh died on March 1 1252.

References

1. Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Ulster
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