 Abt 1259 - 1326 (67 years)
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| Name |
Richard "The Red" De Burgh |
| Prefix |
Earl |
| Nickname |
The Red |
| Birth |
Abt 1259 |
Ulster, Ireland  [3, 4, 5] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
29 Jul 1326 |
Monastery Of Athassel, Tipperary, Ireland [3, 4, 5] |
| Person ID |
I69902 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2009 |
| Father |
Earl Walter De Burgh, b. Abt 1230, Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland d. 28 Jul 1271, Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland (Age 41 years) |
| Mother |
Avelina Fitzjohn, b. Abt 1232, Shere, Surrey, England d. 20 May 1274, Dunmow Priory, Essex, England (Age 42 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1257 |
Surrey, England [6, 7, 8] |
| Family ID |
F23238 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Margaret De Guines, b. Abt 1264, Castle At Guines, Artois/Pas-DE-Calais, France d. 1304 (Age 40 years) |
| Marriage |
Bef 27 Feb 1281 [3, 9] |
| Children |
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| Family ID |
F30337 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
2 Mar 2009 |
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| Notes |
- Richard de Burgh, b. c 1259, d. Athassel, 29 July 1326, 2nd Earl of Ulster; m. bef. 27 Feb 1280/1, Margery, d. 1304. [Magna Charta Sureties]
Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, son of Walter de Burgh and Avalina Fitz John, and his wife Margaret, d. 1304. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Richard de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, b. c 1259, d. 29 July 1326; m. by 27 Feb 1280/1 Margaret, d. 1304 (perhaps daughter of Arnold (Arnoul) III, Count of Guines (d. 1283), grandson of William de Fiennes and his wife Alice (or Agnes), sister of Marie (or Mary) de Coucy, wife of Alexander II, King of Scotland). (Earlier printings of this line show Richard de Burgh's wife as "said to be" a daughter of Sir John de Burgh. This is disproven by John C. Parsons in "Gen. Mag., cit; Anselme 6:167-168, 8:543 f.) [Ancestral Roots, Line 94a-31]
Note: I previously had Magaret de Burgh, "said to be" daughter of John de Burgh, as Eleanor's mother. It turns out that Margaret/Margery de Burgh, daughter of John, was a nun.
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EARLDOM OF ULSTER (III, 2)
RICHARD (DE BURGH), EARL OF ULSTER [IRL], son and heir, born circa 1259, was brought to the King at Woodstock, shortly before 27 December 1274, and granted seisin of his estates, 5 January 1279/80 (h). He harried the lands in Ulster of William FitzWarin in 1281; and was with Edward I during the King's progress through Wales, July to December 1284. In September 1286 he and other Irish nobles made a pact of mutual aid with some of the Scottish nobility (c). He surrendered the office of Keeper of the Isle of Man, June 12; and was summoned for service in Gascony, 1294, and Flanders, 1297, though later allowed to remain in Ireland. On 3 January 1295/6 he was summoned to muster at Whitehaven, 1 March, for an expedition to Scotland; he was among the Irish called upon in January 1299/1300 to consider aiding the King against the Scots; and was granted respite of payments of debt for service in Scotland, 1301. In 1302 he and others were asked to bring a large force from Ireland to Scotland. He was again in Scotland, 1303-04, while in February 1303/4 he held negotiations with Sir John Comyn, before he capitulated, 9 February, at Strathord. On 21 August 1309 he was appointed King's Commissioner to treat for peace with Robert Brus, but was given the command of the Irish troops to serve against the Scots, 26 October following, as also against Brus, 26 March 1314. Further demands for service against the Scots were made, 1322-23, but on 1 June 1323 his attendance was cancelled following a truce. Meanwhile in Ireland he led expeditions into Connaught and against the O'Neills, 1286, 1288, 1291 and 1292, and attacked the sept of O'Hanlon in 1291 and destroyed Roscommon in 1292. Conflict between the Earl and John FitzThomas, head of the Geraldines, led to the capture, 12 December 1294, of Richard, who was imprisoned in Lea Castle, Queen's co., till 12 March 1294/5. He only obtained his release by royal intervention and by surrendering his children as hostages. In October and November 1299 he had livery of his purparty of the lands of his uncle, Richard FitzJohn [Lord FitzJohn], in England and Ireland. Rights of free chace in his demesne lands in Ireland were granted to him, 1 May 1304, and he became guardian of the lands and heir of Ralph Pipard [Lord Pipard], 22 July following. He was Keeper of the royal castles of Athlone, 1305-07, and of Athlone, Randown and Roscommon, 16 Aug. 1309-March 1319. On 20 January 1306/7 the King granted him 1,000 marks to subdue Moryertagh Macnahegan and he led an expedition into Connaught, April following. He was appointed, 15 June 1308, the King's Lieutenant in Ireland; but next day this office was given to Piers (de Gavaston), Earl of Cornwall, whom Richard met at Drogheda in August. For his good services to the late King he was pardoned, 16 Aug. 1309, the yearly rent of 500 marks by which he held Connaught. He was summoned, 10 October 1314, to attend the Parliament [ENG] meeting at Westminster, 20 January fbllowing, and was again called to Westminster, 5 November 1317. After the invasion of Ireland by Edward Brus in May 1315, Earl Richard was defeated by him at Connor, co. Antrim, 10 September, and forced to retreat to Connaught, by then in a state of anarchy; and on 21 February 1316/7, when Edward and Robert Brus were threatening Dublin, the Earl and his kinsmen were seized by the Mayor and imprisoned in Dublin Castle on suspicion (probably unfounded) of complicity with Brus. The King having ordered an enquiry into the causes of this arrest, 23 April, Richard was released, 8 May 1317, and was about to go to the King through South Wales, August following. On 9 August 1318 he was one of the royal guarantors of the Treaty of Leake signed between Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and Edward Il; and in August 1323 he and others in Ireland were ordered to capture Roger, Lord Mortimer, who was reported to have escaped from the Tower of London. He built churches, granted lands to religious foundations and was a benefactor of the Cistercian house of St. Mary at Dunbrody, but he was accused of high-handed acts against the Bishops of Derry and Raphoe.
He married, before 27 February 1280/1, Margaret [possible daughter of Arnoul III, Count of Guisnes, by Alice, daughter of Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy], who died in 1304. Having been present, 11 May 1326, in the Irish Parliament held at Kilkenny, he went to the monastery at Athassel, where he died 29 July 1326 and was buried shortly before 29 August. [Complete Peerage XII/2: 173-7, XIV:619, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
(h) The King was then doubtful if he had attained his majority. He was a minor in Oct 1278. On 15 Apr 1280 and in June 1283 he obtained lands of the dower of Emeline, Hugh de Lacy's widow, who d. 1276 and whose estates had been in the King's hands because of Richard's minority. In Dec. 1280 he is called the King's groom and he was allowed to pay his debts in instalments to the Exchequer at Dublin. Richard had a younger brother, Theobald, who d. 25 Dec 1303 at Carrickfergus, when returning from an expedition to Scotland, and a sister Jill (Egidia), who m. James, High Steward of Scotland.
(c) Among the Scottish nobles was James, the High Steward, who m. Richard's sister Jill.
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| Sources |
- [S1675] Wurts, John, Wurts (1945), (Philadelphia: Brookfield Publishing Company, 1945.), p. 93 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1676] Moody, T. W. and others, Moody (1984), (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1984.), p. 170 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 94a-31 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1630] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis,, 15-5 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, XII/2:173-7 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1631] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th, 177b-9 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1630] Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis,, 15-4 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, XII/2:173 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1634] Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great, XII/2:176 (Reliability: 3).
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