Irish nobleman; 3rd Earl of Ulster and 4th Baron of Connaught (1312-33)
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster and 4th Baron of Connaught (;
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
Richard Óg de Burgh via his second son,
John , William de Burgh was also
Lord of Connaught in
Ireland , and held the manor of
Clare, Suffolk .
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
Dispensation dated 1 May 1327),
Maud of Lancaster , daughter of
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and
Maud Chaworth . They had one surviving child,
Elizabeth , who was 13 months old when her father was murdered.
She married
Lionel of Antwerp , third son of
Edward III of England .
Maud remarried to Sir Ralph Ufford,
Justiciar of Ireland 1344–46, and had further issue. She was said to have had great influence over her second husband.
Murder
Lough Foyle
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
England , where she remarried, was again widowed in 1346, and then became an
Augustinian canoness at
Campsey Priory in
Suffolk , where she is buried. Upon his death, the various factions of the de Burghs, now called Burke, began the
Burke Civil War for supremacy.
[5]
Ancestry
Ancestors of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
See also
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 .
^ Frame, Robin (2004).
"Burgh, William de, third earl of Ulster [called the Brown Earl] (1312–1333), magnate" .
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.
doi :
10.1093/ref:odnb/4001 .
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8 . Retrieved 21 December 2021 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
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