William de Burgh

Baron

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1206, probably January or February.

The date is given by Empey (ODNB).

Place of Death: unknown.

(probable) Place of Burial: Athassel, Tipperary.

The place is given by Empey (ODNB).

Relationships

(possible) Father: Walter de Burgh.

This relationship is given by A New History of Ireland (9:170). The Complete Peerage (12B:172 fn), citing Ellis, notes that William’s father may have been Walter de Burgh of Burgh-next-Aylsham, Norfolk.

(possible) Mother: Alice.

The mother of William’s brother Hubert was named Alice (Smith ODNB). The Complete Peerage (7:133 fn a) notes that Blomfield (10:265) gives Hubert’s parents as Reyner de Burgo and Joan, daughter of John, son of Sir William Punchard. However, it also notes that a charter of c. 1230 gives the mother of Hubert, William’s brother, as Alice, which casts doubt on the reliability of Blomfield on this point. A charter of c. 1201 mentions Hubert’s antecessor William de Boseville, but the Complete Peerage notes that this may possibly have been his wife’s ancestor.

Brother: Hubert de Burgh (about 1170 - 12 May 1243), earl of Kent, justiciar of England.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12B:172 fn), by Empey (ODNB), and by A New History of Ireland (9:170). The Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland (vol. 1 no. 2217) records that Hubert was the uncle of William’s son Richard.

Brother: Geoffrey de Burgh (about 1180 - December 1228), bishop of Ely.

Brother: Thomas de Burgh, castellan of Norwich.

Spouse: uncertain.

Spouse: a daughter of Domnall Mór mac Toirrdelbach Ua Briain, king of Thomond in Ireland.

This relationship is given by Orpen (4:159) and (tentatively) by Empey (ODNB).

Children (mother uncertain):

Richard de Burgh married Egidia, daughter of Walter de Lacy.

Hubert de Burgh (died 1250), bishop of Limerick.

Children (probably by a daughter of Donnell O’Brien):

Richard Óg de Burgh.

References

Blomfield, Frances and Charles Parkin. An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk (London, 1809).

Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland Preserved in Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, London 1171-1251 (H.S. Sweetman, ed.) (London: Longman, 1875).

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Ellis, C. Hubert de Burgh, a Study in Constancy (London, 1952). (Cited by the Complete Peerage: I have not seen this).

Empey, C.A. “Burgh, William de (d. 1206)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

A New History of Ireland. Moody, T.W., F.X.Martin, and F.J. Byrne (eds.). Volume 9 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).

Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1169-1216 vol. 1, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911).

Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1216-1333 vol. 3, vol. 4 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920).

Smith, B. “Burgh, Richard de (died 1243)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

West, F.J. “Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent (c. 1170-1243)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).