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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 de Burgh was the eldest son of Walter de Burgh and his wife, Alice, of Burgh-next-Aylsham, Norfolk or Burgh, Suffolk, and had three brothers: Hubert, Earl of Kent; Geoffrey, Bishop of Ely; and Thomas, Castellan of Norwich. [3] Ellis has made a case that William's father was Walter de Burgh but notes this is "highly conjectural". [3]
Henry de Burgh, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (1742–1797), Irish peer and politician; Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (c.1180–1243), Justiciar of England and Ireland ...
The Burkes (originally De Burgh) were an Old English family long-established in Connacht. Her mother was a daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty and thus belonged to the MacCarthy of Muskerry dynasty, a Gaelic Irish family that descended from the kings of Desmond. [2] She had previously been married to Sir John Fitzgerald of ...
[1] [2] Due to this confusion the real Richard de Burgh is often referred to as "Richard Mór Óg de Burgh", combining the two names. The family tree below represents the best scholarship on the different branches and lines of descent of the early de Burgh (Burke) family. [3]
Richard was born in 1572, the second but eldest surviving son of Ulick Burke [1] and his wife Honora Burke. His father was the 3rd Earl of Clanricarde. His father's family was Old English and descended from William de Burgh (died 1206) who arrived in Ireland during the reign of King Henry II, and was the founder of the House of Burgh in Ireland.
There are differing views as to Burke's ancestry. According to the Book of the Burkes (Historia et Genealogia Familiae de Burgo), a genealogical manuscript made in the 1570s for Seaán mac Oliver Bourke, 17th Mac William Íochtar (d.1580) of the Burkes of County Mayo, Burke was a son of Richard an Fhorbhair mac William de Burgh, a natural son of William Laith de Burgh (d.1324), who was a son ...
Hugh de Lacy c. 1176 –1271 Earl of Ulster: Earl of Ulster (2nd Irish creation), 1264: Maud de Lacy: Walter de Burgh c. 1210 –1271 1st Earl of Ulster, 2nd Lord of Connaught: Richard Óg de Burgh 1259–1326 2nd Earl of Ulster: John de Burgh d. 1313: King Robert II 1316–1390: King Edward III 1312–1377: William Donn de Burgh 1312–1333 ...