Walter (Burgh) de Burgh (abt. 1229 - 1271)

Born about 1229 in Connaught, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Aveline (FitzJohn) de Burgh — married about 1257 in Surrey, England

Descendants

Died 28 Jul 1271 at about age 42 in Galway Castle, Ireland

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Biography

Walter was the second son of Richard de Burgh, Seneschal of Munster, Keeper of Limerick Castle, lord of Connacht, Justiciar of Ireland, and his wife Egidia de Lacy.^[1][2] He was born about 1229.^[1] He succeeded to the lordship of Connaught on the death of his brother Richard c.1248.^[2]

Walter de Burgh married, about 1257, Aveline Fitz John, daughter of John Fitz Geoffrey, Knt. of Shere, Surrey, Justiciar of Ireland, and his wife Isabel, daughter of Hugh le Bigod, earl of Norfolk.^[1][3][4] There were five children from this marriage:

• Richard de Burgh, 3rd earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht^[1][2]
• Thebaud de Burgh^[1][2][3]
• William de Burgh^[1][2]
• Thomas de Burgh^[1][2]
• Egidia (Giles) de Burgh, m. 1296 James Stewart, Vth High Steward of Scotland^[5][6][7][8]

Sir Walter de Burgh, 2nd earl of Ulster, died at Galway Castle 28 July 1271, and was buried in the monastery of Athassel-on-the-Suir, co. Tipperary, Ireland.^[1][4] In medieval times the priory was known as Athassel Priory of Edmund the King. It is now ruins with some graves being marked. It is reported that one tomb exists of a 13th century knight that may be that of Walter de Burgh.

His widow, Aveline, Countess of Ulster, died c.20 May 1274 and was buried in Dunmow Priory, Essex.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 2, p.15 BURGH 4. Walter de Burgh.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Archer, Thomas Andrew. Burgh, Walter de. Dictionary of National Biography online.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Frame, Robin. Burgh, Walter de, first earl of Ulster. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online (23 Sep 2004), available online by subscription or through some library services.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} MacKay, Ronan. Burgh, Walter de. Dictionary of Irish Biography online.
5. ↑ Cal. Docs. Scot., vol. 2, no. 847, p.223.
6. ↑ MacEwen, Andrew B.W. The Wives of James the Steward. Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (Jan 2011), vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 394-395.
7. ↑ Paul, James Balfour. The Scots Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), vol. 1, p. 14 available online.
8. ↑ Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scot's Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), p. 322.

• Wills, James. Lives of Illustrious and Distinguished Irishmen, from the earliest times to the present period (Dublin: Macgregor, Polson 1840-47), pp.347-9.

• Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Hosted online by the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG), accessed 2022, Earls of Ulster.