William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster | |
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Uilleag Donn de Búrca | |
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Lieutenant of Ireland | |
In office 3 March 1331 – 5 November 1331 | |
Preceded by | John Darcy |
Succeeded by | Anthony de Lucy |
Personal details | |
Born | 13 September 1312 |
Died | 6 June 1333 | (aged 20)
Spouse | John de Burgh Elizabeth de Clare |
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster and 4th Baron of Connaught (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d’-BER; 17 September 1312 – 6 June 1333) was an Irish noble who was Lieutenant of Ireland (1331) and whose murder, aged 20, led to the Burke Civil War.
Background
The grandson of the 2nd Earl
.He was summoned to Parliament from 10 December 1327 to 15 June 1328 by writs addressed to Willelmo de Burgh. He is considered the first Baron Burgh. In March 1331 he was appointed Lieutenant of Ireland, serving until November 1331.[2]
Marriage and issue
The 3rd Earl of Ulster married, before 16 November 1327 (by a Papal
She married
Maud remarried to Sir Ralph Ufford,
Murder
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In February 1332, at Greencastle, near the mouth of Lough Foyle, he had his cousin Sir Walter Liath de Burgh starved to death. In revenge, Sir Walter's sister, Gylle de Burgh, wife of Sir Richard de Mandeville, planned his assassination.
In June 1333, he was killed by de Mandeville, Sir John de Logan, and others. His widow, Maud (or Matilda), offered a reward for the capture of de Mandeville and his wife.[3]
The Annals of the Four Masters noted that
"William Burke, Earl of Ulster, was killed by the English of Ulster. The Englishmen who committed this deed were put to death, in divers ways, by the people of the King of England; some were hanged, others killed, and others torn asunder, in revenge of his death."[4]
Maud fled to
Ancestry
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See also
- Hiberno-Normandynasty founded in 1193
- Lord of Connaught
References
Citations
- ^ 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.
- ^ O'Mahony, Charles (1912). The Viceroys of Ireland. London: John Long Limited. p. 16.
- ^ "Close Rolls, Edward III: August 1337 Pages 151-172". British History Online. Retrieved 10 August 2022.
- ^ Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes. Vol. 5. Translated by O'Donovan, John (1st ed.). 2016 [1851]. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- required.)
Bibliography
- Archer, Thomas Andrew (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. . In
- 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. London: Harrison & sons.
- O'Mahony, Charles (1912). The Viceroys of Ireland. London: John Long Limited.
- Harbison, Sheelagh (1995), "Rindown Castle: a royal fortress in Co. Roscommon", Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, 47
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- MacLysaght, Edward (1978), The Surnames of Ireland, Dublin
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- Earls of Ulster and Lords of Connacht, 1205–1460 (De Burgh, De Lacy and Mortimer), p. 170.
- O'Donovan, John (1843), The Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, commonly called O'Kelly's Country, Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society
- Annala Rioghachta Eireann: Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, from the earliest period to the year 1616. Edited from MSS in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy and of Trinity College Dublin with a translation and copious notes. Vol. 5. Translated by O'Donovan, John (1st ed.). 2016 [1851]. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
- Weiss, Frederick, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, pp. Lines 73-30, 177B-8, 177B-9
External links
- 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
- Revised edition of McCarthy's synchronisms at Trinity College Dublin.