Richard_de_Burgh

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Birth Name de Burgh, Richard Mor
Gender male
Age at Death 50 years, 1 month, 16 days

Narrative

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, called "The Great" Lord.

Sources: A. Roots 177B; Smallwood; Kraentzler. Roots: Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, died 1242. (Richard Mor de Burc), says Smallwood. Lord of Connaught. Governor of Ireland. Justiciar (chief political and legal officer) of Ireland.

He was Lord Deputy of Ireland and ancestor of the Lords Clanricarde. Lord of Connaught, and viceroy of Connaught from 1227 to 1229. He built the Castle at Galway. He died on his passage to France wither he was proceeding, attended by "his barons and knights," to meet Henry II in Bordeaux. Arms: Or, a cross, gules.

Viceroy of Ireland, 1227-29; built castle of Galway (1232); died en route to meet the English King at Bordeaux; he served as Justiciar of Ireland (1228-32). Richard received the land of "Connok" (Connaught) when it was forfeited by its ruler, whom he fought against. His mother is identified by W.H. Turton, "The Plantagenet Ancestry" (Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co.,1968),p.92. The surname became Bourke and Burke in later centuries. Richard is titled "Governor of Ireland."

Richard de Burgh (d. 1243), Irish settler, is said to have been the son of William Fitzaldhelm, one of the early invaders of Ireland; he is however, described in the Close Rolls as the son of William de Burgh, who received a large grant in Connaught from John, and was afterwards disseised by him. Richard appears to have made a pilgimage to the shrine of St James at Compostella in 1222. The order of St James had been founded about fifty years before; the saint was held in high estimation by the chivalry of England, and pilgrimages to his shrine were popular, for they had the charter of military adventures, as well as of acts of devotion. On Richard's return he received grants of all the lands in Connaught, of which he and his father had been disseised by John, and thus became lord of a great part of the province. In 1223 the king sent him a Bristol ship laden with supplies, to help him in his was there. In the war with Aedh of Connaught in 1230 he led one of the divisions of the army under the command of Geoffrey de Marisco, and took part in a battle in which the Irish were defeated and Aedh was taken prisoner. When Peter des Roches succeeded in driving Richard, the Earl Marshall, into rebellion by his unjust treatment of him, he determined to draw him into Ireland that he might destroy him there. Accordingly he and his party wrote to the lords in Ireland, and excited them against him. This letter, which was sealed by the king, came, among others, to Richard, who joined in the conspiracy made against the earl, and invaded his lands. The earl went over to Ireland to defend his lands, and RIchard went with Geoffrey de Marisco and the rest to meet him. They offered to be his allies, and incited him to make war against the king's possessions that they might destroy him and divide his inheritance. None sought his life more eagerly than Richard. When the conspirators openly turned against him and prepared to give him battle (1 April 1234), Richard armed one of his Irish followers, a man of great strenght, with his own armour, and charged him to slay the earl. The Irishman failed in his attempt, bu the earl was mortally wounded somewhat later in the battle. During the expedition of Henry III to Poitou Richard and other Irish lords were persuaded by Maurice Fitzgerald to fit out a fleet and sail to join the king. They were met by the ships that guarded the coast of France. A storm separated the fleets, but the barons evidently had the worst of the engagement. Frightened alike by the rough weather and the attack of the French, they landed on a part of the coast that was unknown to them. Many perished of the hardships they had to undergo. Among them Richard died in the early part of 1243. He married Egidia, daughter of Walter de Laci, and left an heir, Walter and other children. He is the ancestor of the house of Clanricade. [Dictionary of National Biography III:323-324]

 

 

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 1193 Connaught, Ireland   1
Death 1243-02-17 Bordeaux, Gascogne, France   1

Age: 50y

Burial after 1243-02-17 Abbey Graveyard, Athenry, County Galway, Ireland Burial 7a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Burgh, William11601205
Mother O'Brien, Mor1162
         de Burgh, Richard Mor 1193 1243-02-17

Families

Family of de Burgh, Richard Mor and de Lacy, Egidia
Unknown Partner de Lacy, Egidia ( * 1205 + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
de Burgh, Walter12201271-07-28

Family of de Burgh, Richard Mor and de Gernon, Hodierna
Unknown Partner de Gernon, Hodierna ( * 1208 + 1240 )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
de Burgh, Joanna11901240

Source References

  1. KNDD-WHX FamilySearch.org
  2. Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught (1193-1243), Wikipedia
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        Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught (c.1194–1243), was a Hiberno-Norman aristocrat who was Seneschal of Munster and Justiciar of Ireland (1228–32). Richard Mór de Burgh, was born towards the end of the year in 1193 (and came of age in 1214). He was the eldest son and heir of William de Burgh and his wife (daughter of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond). Before 21 April 1225, he married Egidia de Lacy (daughter of Walter de Lacy and his wife Margaret de Braose), with which alliance he acquired the cantred of Eóghanacht Caisil with the castle of Ardmayle in Tipperary. Richard and Egidia had three sons and four daughters.
        Justiciar of Ireland (13 February 1228 – 16 June 1232) Richard de Burgh died shortly before 17 February 1243.

  3. Richard de Burgh, Lord Connaught, Justiciar of Ireland (1193-1243), Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
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        William FitzAdelm died in 1204.1In 1179 he obtained a grant of a large part of Connaught.1 He held the office of Governor of Wexford.1Child of William FitzAdelmRichard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught+ d. c 17 Feb 1243Citations[S21] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, U.K.: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 69. Hereinafter cited as The New Extinct Peerage.

  4. Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught in The Peerage
  5. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "Burgh, Walter de, 1st earl of Ulster"
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        Identification of Walter de Burgh as Mac William Burke in the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Vol. 3, pg. 359, footnote m; pg. 387, footnote k; pg 389-390, footnote q; pg. 393-395, footnote f.

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        Earls of Ulster in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 8, pgs. 4-6

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        The Lordship of Connaught in Cokayne's Complete Peerage, Vol. 1, pg XI

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        Richard de Burgh in the Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland, Vol. 3, pgs. 263-264

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        Burgh (Bourke) line in O'Hart's Irish Pedigrees, pgs. 849-850

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        William FitzAdelm de Burgh in Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, pg. 66

  6. Richard de Burgh Bio
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        RICHARD de Burgh (-Gascony before 17 Feb 1243). King Henry III ordered "Richard de Burgh to have seisin of all the lands which belonged to William, Richard´s father, in Ireland and whereof the latter was disseised by King John" by charter dated 14 Apr 1220[468]. Lord of Connaught. Justiciar of Ireland 1228-1232. The Annals of Ulster record in 1228 that "the Justiciate of Ireland was assumed by the son of William de Burgh (namely, Richard)”[469]. Henry III King of England wrote to "Ricardo de Burgo", dated 13 Jan 1233, ordering him to surrender his castles to "fideli nostro Mauricio filio Geroldi justiciarum nostrum Hiberniæ"[470]. A writ dated [29] Dec "[28?] Hen III" and 7 Mar "27 Hen III" after the death of "Richard de Burgo" assigns dower to "Egidia late the wife of the said Richard" but names no heir[471].

        m as her first marriage, EGIDIA de Lacy, daughter of WALTER de Lacy Lord of Meath & his wife Margery de Briouse (-[22 Feb 1247/5 Nov 1248]). A writ dated [29] Dec "[28?] Hen III" and 7 Mar "27 Hen III" after the death of "Richard de Burgo" assigns dower to "Egidia late the wife of the said Richard" but names no heir[472]. A charter dated 22 Feb 1247 records the homage of "Richard son and heir of Richard de Burgh for all his father´s lands…in Ireland…saving the dower of Egidia, who was Richard´s wife"[473]. She married secondly Richard de Rochester. Her second marriage is confirmed by a charter dated 8 Oct 1249 which records that "the Dominican friars of London have shown to the king that Egidia, who was the wife of Richard de Burgh senior, received 180 marks in which Richard was bound to Hubert de Burgh late Earl of Kent and which the Earl had left by his will to the friars, and that Richard of Rochester who subsequently married Egidia wasted her chattels" and the order to restore property to the friars[474]. A charter dated 5 Nov 1248 mandates "Peter de Bermingham to cause dower to be assigned to Alice who was the wife of Richard de Burgh…son and heir of Richard de Burgh who died in the king´s service at Bordeaux" and to have dower "of all the lands whereof Egidia, who was the wife of the latter, was endowed"[475].

        Richard & his wife had seven children:
        a) daughter . m HAMON de Valognes, son of --- (-before 17 Dec 1243).
        b) ALICE de Burgh (-after 17 Feb 1243). m --- (-before 17 Feb 1243).
        c) MARGERY de Burgh (-after 1 Mar 1253). m (1242 or before) THEOBALD Butler, son of THEOBALD Butler & his first wife Joan de Mareis (-bur Arklow 1248 before 3 Aug).
        d) daughter . m as his second wife, GERALD de Prendergast, son of --- (-before 28 Oct 1251).
        e) RICHARD de Burgh ([1225/29]-[19 May/6 Nov] 1248). He succeeded his father as Lord of Connaught. m ALICE, daughter of --- (-after 5 Nov 1248).
        f) WALTER de Burgh (-Galway Castle 28 Jul 1271). He succeeded his brother in 1248 as Lord of Connaught. In 1264 he exchanged land in Munster for land in Ulster with Edward, son of Henry III King of England, and was created Earl of Ulster around this time[484].
        g) WILLIAM de Burgh (-killed 1270). m ---.

        ** from Wikipedia listing for Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught as of 6/17/2016

        Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connacht (c. 1194 – 1242),[1] was a Hiberno-Norman aristocrat and Justiciar of Ireland.

        Background
        De Burgh was the eldest son of William de Burgh and his wife who was a daughter of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond. De Burgh's principal estate was in the barony of Loughrea where he built a castle in 1236 and a town was founded. He also founded Galway town and Ballinasloe. The islands on Lough Mask and Lough Orben were also part of his demesne.

        From the death of his father in 1206 to 1214, Richard was a ward of the crown of England until he received his inheritance. In 1215 he briefly served in the household of his uncle Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. In 1223 and again in 1225 he was appointed seneschal of Munster and keeper of Limerick castle.[2]

        Connacht
        In 1224, Richard claimed Connacht, which had been granted to his father but never, in fact, conquered by him. He asserted that the grant to Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, the Gaelic king, after his father's death had been on condition of faithful service, and that his son Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, who succeeded Cathal that year, had forfeited it. He had the favour of the justiciar of England, Hubert de Burgh, and was awarded Connacht in May 1227. Having been given custody of the counties of Cork and Waterford and all the crown lands of Decies and Desmond, he was appointed Justiciar of Ireland from 1228 to 1232.

        When in 1232 Hubert de Burgh fell from grace, Richard was able to distance himself and avoid being campaigned against by the king of England, Henry III. It was only in 1235 when he summoned the whole feudal host of the English lords and magnates to aid him that he expelled Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair, the Gaelic king, from Connacht. He and his lieutenants received great shares of land, while Felim was obliged to do homage and was allowed only to keep five cantreds Roscommon from the Crown. Richard de Burgh held the remaining 25 cantreds of Connacht in chief of the crown of England. De Burgh took the title of "Lord of Connacht".[1]

        Wife and children
        Before 1225 he married Egidia de Lacy, daughter of Walter de Lacy, and Margaret de Braose. With this alliance he acquired the cantred of Eóghanacht Caisil with the castle of Ardmayle in Tipperary.

        Richard de Burgh had three sons and may have had four daughters:

        Sir Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, Constable of Montgomery Castle, married a relative of Eleanor of Provence,[3] but died without issue in Poitou in 1248.
        Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, Lord of Connaught, died 1271.
        William Óg de Burgh, who was the ancestor of the Mac William family, died 1270.
        Aleys married Muirchertach O Briain.
        Margery de Burgh (? – after March 1253), married Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland
        Unnamed daughter who married Sir Gerald de Prendergast of Beauvoir, by whom she had a daughter, Maud.
        Unnamed daughter who married Hamon de Valoynes and had a daughter, Mabel de Valoynes.

        Richard died on 17 February 1241/42.

        Notes
        Curtis, Edmund (2004) [1950]. A History of Ireland (6th ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 70–72. ISBN 0-415-27949-6.
        B. Smith, 'Burgh, Richard de (died 1243)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, online edn, Oxford University Press, September 2004
        Mathew Paris, Chronica majora, iv, pp 628, 655.
        A New History of Ireland, volume IX, Oxford, 1984;
        Earls of Ulster and Lords of Connacht, 1205–1460 (De Burgh, De Lacy and Mortimer), p. 170;
        Mac William Burkes: Mac William Iochtar (de Burgh), Lords of Lower Connacht and Viscounts of Mayo, 1332–1649, p. 171;
        Burke of Clanricard: Mac William Uachtar (de Burgh), Lords of Upper Connacht and Earls of Clanricard, 1332–1722.

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  7. Richard Mór de Burgh (1194-1243), "Find A Grave Index"
      • Page: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:731X-JD3Z : 15 June 2022), Richard Mór de Burgh, ; Burial, Athenry, , County Galway, Ireland, Abbey Graveyard; citing record ID 194332650, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
      • Source text:

        1st Baron of Connaught

         

         

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        https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194332650/richard-m%C3%B3r-de_burgh
        Richard Mór de Burgh
        BIRTH 1194 Ireland
        DEATH 17 Feb 1243 (aged 48–49) Ireland
        BURIAL Abbey Graveyard
        Athenry, County Galway, Ireland
        MEMORIAL ID 194332650
        1st Baron of Connaught
        Spouse: Egidia (Gille) de Lacy de Burgh 1202–1240 (m. 1225)