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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.
Twenty-year-old William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, known as "the Brown Earl", was murdered by his household knights in June 1333 after he had starved to death his cousin and rival Sir Walter Liath de Burgh in the previous year (1332).
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 House of Burgh (English: / b ɜːr /; ber; French pronunciation:) or Burke (Irish: de Búrca; Latin: de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman and later Hiberno-Norman aristocratic dynasty which played a prominent role in the Norman invasion of Ireland, held the earldoms of Kent, Ulster, Clanricarde, and Mayo at various times, and provided queens consort of Scotland and Thomond and Kings of ...
William Giffard (d. 1129), was the Lord Chancellor of William II and Henry I, from 1093 to 1101, and Bishop of Winchester (1100–1129). Family and early life
A covered vehicle outside the fire-damaged home of William de Rothschild, a.k.a. William Alfred Kauffman, who was found dead Nov. 27. Neighbors say he had a major car collection.
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 ...
A cold case from 1959 involving a missing 7-year-old came to a conclusion last week through DNA identification, decades after charges against the boy's adoptive parents were dropped for lack of ...