William de Burgh , 4th Earl of Ulster 
William de was born on September 13th, 1312 in Ulster, Ireland. William de's father was John de Burgh and his mother was Elizabeth de Clare. His maternal grandparents were Gilbert de Clare , Earl Gloucester & Hertford and Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet , Princess of England. He had three half-sisters named Elizabeth, Eleanor and Isabel de. He died at the age of 20 on June 6th, 1333 in Murdered at Le Ford, Belfast, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland.General Notes
EARLDOM OF ULSTER (IV, 3)
WILLIAM (DE BURGH),EARL OF ULSTER, grandson and heir, being son and heir of John DE BURGH and Elizabeth his wife, was born 17 September 1312 and crossed to England with his grandfather, Earl Richard, in 1322 and 1323. Although still a minor, he received Earl Richard's English lands, 3 February, and his Irish lands, 5 February 1326/7, and was summoned to Parliament [ENG] from 10 December 1327 to 15 June 1328, by writs directed Willelmo de Burgh, whereby he is held to have become LORD BURGH. He was knighted in London, 22 May 1328, and was among those who were to go to Berwick for the marriage ceremonies, 12 July following, confirming the Treaty of Northampton. Returning to Ireland in that year with Robert, King of Scots, he was granted the keeping of Carrickfergus Castle, 15 November 1328, and of Athlone Castle, 24 February 1330/1. He attended Parliaments [IRL] at Dublin, 1328 and 1329, and at Kilkenny, 1330. In 1329-30 he was in conflict with Brian Ban O'Brien in Munster and also with the Earl of Desmond. Both Earls were ordered, 19 June 1330, by the King to keep the peace and both were committed by the Justiciar [IRL] to the custody of the Marshal in Limerick later in that year. Earl Richard was ordered to aid and advise the Justiciar, 27 February, and was appointed the King's Deputy in Ireland, 3 March 1330. He was called to England, November 1331, to advise the King as to his intended visit to Ireland; and was among those ordered to postpone trials there till after the King's arrival, 4 August 1332.
He married (Papal dispensation 1 May 1327) Maud, daughter of Henry, EARL OF LANCASTER AND LEICESTER (grandson of HENRY III) by his 1st wife, Maud, daughter and heir of Sir Patrick DE CHAWORTH, of Kidwelly, co. Carmarthen, and Kempsford, co. Gloucester. He was murdered, 6 June 1333, aged 20, at Le Ford (now Belfast), on his way to Carrickfergus, by John de Logan and some of the Mandevilles. His widow fled immediately with her daughter Elizabeth to England, where she married, before 8 August 1343, Sir Ralph DE UFFORD, Justiciar of Ireland (1344-46), who d. 9 April 1346 at Kilmainham (Ireland) and was buried at Campsey Priory, Suffolk. Maud, who became an Augustinian canoness at Campsey in 1347, had licence from the Pope to transfer to the Order of St. Clare, 11 April 1364, and was living at Bruisyard Abbey in the same co., 21 February 1368/9. She died 5 May 1377 and was buried with her 2nd husband at Campsey. [Complete Peerage XII/2:178-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1290 in Ulster, Ireland d.18 Jun 1313 in Galway, Ireland (dvp)
- b.13 Sep 1312 in Ulster, Ireland d.06 Jun 1333 in Murdered at Le Ford, Belfast, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland
- b.~ 1158 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.<28 Nov 1217
- b.~ 1180 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.25 Oct 1230 in Penrose, Brittany, France
- b.1160 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.1 JAN 1224/25 in England
- b.04 Aug 1222 in Gloucestershire, England d.15 Jul 1262 in John Griol's Manor, Ashenfield, Waltham, Kent, England
- b.1146 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.14 May 1219 in Caversham Manor, England
- b.09 Oct 1200 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.17 JAN 1239/40 in Birkhampstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.02 Sep 1243 in Christ Church, Hampshire, England d.07 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.~ 1171 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.< 1196
- b.~ 1192 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.22 Jul 1240 in Stanlaw, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1176 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.1213
- b.1223 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.BEF 10 MAR 1288/89
- b.~ 1172 in Winchester Buckley, Hampshire, England d.1217 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1208 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England d.<30 Mar 1266 in Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England
- b.1180 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.BEF 3 MAR 1242/43
- b.14 Sep 1295 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England d.04 Nov 1360 in St Mary's Ware, Hertfordshire, England
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevault Abbey, Fonervrault, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-The-Sand near Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1217 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.25 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1201 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1272 in Acre, Hazafon, Palestine d.23 Apr 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England
- b.15 Aug 1166 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva de Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.~Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine d.08 Nov 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine
- b.1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.28 Nov 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.Sep 1250 in Normandy, France
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