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William de Burgh (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR, French:; Latin: de Burgo; c. 1160 –winter 1205/06) [1] was the founder of the House of Burgh (later surnamed Burke or Bourke) in Ireland [2] and elder brother of Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent and Geoffrey de Burgh, Bishop of Ely.
William de Burgh (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR; 1741 – 1808) was a prominent Anglo-Irish politician and theological writer who was a Member of Parliament for Athy (1769–76), a supporter of William Wilberforce, and an active campaigner for the abolition of slavery.
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster and 4th Baron of Connaught (English: / d ə ˈ b ɜːr / də-BUR; 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.
The Burke/de Burgh Civil War was a conflict in Ireland from 1333 to 1338 between three leading members of the de Burgh (Burke/Bourke) Anglo-Norman family resulting in the division into three clans. Background
William de Burgh (1157–1206), Lord of Connaught; William Óg de Burgh (died 1270), Irish chieftain; William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster (1312–1333), noble in the Peerage of Ireland; William de Burgh (MP) (1741–1808), Anglo-Irish theologian, politician and anti-slavery campaigner; William de Burgh (philosopher) (1866–1943), British ...
Richard's son Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, his son Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, and Richard Óg's grandson William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster all seem to have used the title but, on the death of the latter in 1333, civil war broke out over control of the de Burgh lands.