Elizabeth (Burgh) de Burgh (1332 - 1363)

Born 6 Jul 1332 in Carrickfergus Castle, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of Lionel (Plantagenet) of Antwerp KG — married 15 Aug 1342 in Tower of London, Middlesex, England

Descendants

Died 10 Dec 1363 at age 31 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

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Biography

Elizabeth de Burgh^[1][2]

Elizabeth (1332-1363), daughter and heiress, born at Carrickfergus Castle, Ireland and died in Dublin.^[3] She was the suo jure 4th Countess of Ulster, 5th Baroness of Connaught; sole heiress of the Burkes in Ulster, and progenitor of the Yorkists. She was a major figure in not one but two aristocratic family feuds that became civil wars. (See her biography in Wikipedia.)^[4][5]

Elizabeth was 1 year old, an infant and her father's heir at the time of William de Burgh's death. ^[6] Her mother Maud fled with her to England for safety when William was murdered in Ireland.

Elizabeth married, "at the Tower of London 15 August 1342 (by agreement dated 5 May 1341)" Lionel of Antwerp, K.G., "of Brimpsfield, Gloucestershire, Chief Governor of Ireland, and, in right of his wife, 5th Earl of Ulster, lord of Clare and Connacht, 3rd but 2nd surviving son of Edward III, King of England, by Philippa, daughter of Guillaume le Bon, Count of Hainault, Holland, and Zeeland, lord of Friesland.... By this marriage, Lionel acquired the vast estates in Ireland of the Burgh family, as well as a large part (including the honour of Clare) of the estates of the Earls of Gloucester and Hertford, in right of his wife's paternal grandmother.... He was created Duke of Clarence 13 Nov. 1362. His wife, Elizabeth, Duchess of Clarence, died at Dublin, Ireland 10 Dec. 1363, and was buried at Bruisyard Abbey, Suffolk."^[3]

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Elizabeth de Burgh

Birth: July 6, 1332 at Carrickfergus Castle,^[2] Antrim, Ulster, Ireland

Parents: William de Burgh and Maud of Lancaster^[2]

Married: Lionel of Antwerp, K.G. (as his first wife) on 15 August 1342 at the Tower of London,^[2][7] Lionel was born at Antwerp in Brabant 29 November 1338.^[3]

Daughter: Philippa of Clarence, only child of Lionel and Elizabeth, married Edmund de Mortimer, Knt.^[8]

Death: December 10, 1363 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), ENGLAND 9.v. (I:87), BURGH 8 (II:23).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham, 2nd edition (Salt Lake City: the author, 2011), volume I, page 363 BURGH 8.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Richardson, Royal Ancestry, II:23 BURGH 8.
4. ↑ Wikipedia: Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster
5. ↑ See this G2G discussion about her titles.
6. ↑ Calendar of inquisitions post mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office by Great Britain pub: Public Record Office; Kirby, J. L. (John Lavan); White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918. fmo
7. ↑ September 9, 1342 had been given as marriage date, without a source.
8. ↑ Richardson, Royal Ancestry, IV:174, Mortimer 13.

• Richardson, Douglas. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 4 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. 2nd edition. Salt Lake City: the author, 2011. See also WikiTree's source page for Magna Carta Ancestry.
• Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham. Salt Lake City: the author, 2013. See also WikiTree's source page for Royal Ancestry.

See also:

• Lewis, Marlyn. Elizabeth de Burgh, entry in "Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors and Cousins" database.