Elizabeth Burgh Burgh-396

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Biography

Elizabeth de Burgh, daughter of Philip de Burgh of Cawthorne, Walton and Hackforth, Yorkshire and Burgh, Cambridgeshire, married, before November 1306, Alexander de Montfort. ^[1]

Elizabeth's father, Philip de Burgh died in 1285, leaving two underage children, Thomas and Elizabeth (Thomas born in 1278 and Elizabeth, born about 1282).^[2] The children were placed under the guardianship of Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln.^[3] He then granted the wardship to his mother Alice de Lacy.^[4] Likely, Henry de Lacy arranged the marriage of his ward, Elizabeth de Burgh, to Alexander, son of his steward Alexander de Montfort. By a fine in November 1306, Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife granted property in Sutton, Spalding and Tydd St. Mary, Lincolnshire to feoffees, who granted the property to them including the reversion of land held in dower by Maud, widow of Alexander de Montfort.^[5]

On 20 January 1320, Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife quitclaimed to Sir Thomas de Burgh, Elizabeth’s brother, all their rights in the manor of Hackforth (in Hornby, Yorkshire),^[6] and on the same day, Thomas de Burgh granted land and rents in Menthorpe, Yorkshire to Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife and Laurence their son.^[7] Sir Thomas de Burgh died early in 1322, leaving a son and heir John, aged 22. Elizabeth alleged that John de Burgh was illegitimate and claimed the estates of her brother. The case came to the Chancery court at York on 20 February 1322 and Elizabeth acknowledged that John was the legitimate son of Sir Thomas.^[8] Probably in return for this concession, on 21 January 1324, John de Burgh and his younger brother Thomas granted the manor of Hackforth to Alexander de Montfort and Elizabeth his wife, and the heirs of Elizabeth’s body.^[9] On 8 October 1324, Alexander and Elizabeth granted the lands and rent in Menthorpe, which they received in 1320, to John, son of Sir Thomas de Burgh.^[10]

In October 1326, likely as part of a marriage settlement, their feoffees granted to Alexander and Elizabeth lands and rents in in Sutton, Spalding and Tydd St, Mary, Lincolnshire and Alexander and Elizabeth granted the lands and rents to Laurence their son and his wife Isabel, daughter of Gilbert de Toutheby (Totheby).^[11]

Alexander de Montfort died between October 1326 and April 1335. His widow Elizabeth allegedly made a will which was dated in 1352.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ Most of the information was located thanks to Genealogical Rambling, "Montfort of Wellow and Nunney," 24 Aug. 2016, found at John Watson blogspot.
2. ↑ J. W. Walker, "The Burghs of Cambridgeshire and the Watertons of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire," The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal vol. xxx (Leeds: John Whitehead & Son, 1931), p. 323, found at Archive.org.
3. ↑ Calendar of Close Rolls Preserved in the Public Record Office, Edward I [1279-1288], vol. 2, 1279-1288 (London: Mackie & Co., 1902), p. 521, found at Archive.org (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
4. ↑ William Brown, ed., The Register of John Le Romeyn, Lord Archbishop of York Part I, Surtees Society vol. 123 (Durham: Andrews & Son, 1913), pp. 125, 155, found at Archive.org and Archive.org (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
5. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/135/75, no. 3, found at Some Notes on Medieval English Generalogy (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
6. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/271/93, no. 23 (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
7. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/271/93, no. 33 (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
8. ↑ Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem, vol. 6, Edward II (1910), p. 184, No. 320, found at British History Online (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
9. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/271/100, no. 86 (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
10. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/271/101, no. 2 (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
11. ↑ Feet of Fines: CP 25/1/137/95, nos. 56, 58, found at Some Notes on Medieval English Genealogy (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).
12. ↑ H. B. McCall, Richmondshire Churches (London, 1910), p. 49, found at Archive.org (John Watson blogspot John Watson blogspot).