1st Earl of Ulster Walter de Burgh 
Walter was born in 1220 in Ulster Planation, Ulster, Ireland.1 Walter's father was Lord of Connaught Ricahrd (The Great) de Burgh and his mother was Egidia de Lacy. His paternal grandparents were Lord of Connaught William de Burgh and Mor O'Brien; his maternal grandparents were Lord of Meath Walter de Lacy and Margaret de Braose. He was an only child. He died at the age of 51 on July 28th, 1271 in Castle of Galway, Connacht, Ireland.1 General Notes
Walter de Burgh, born about 1220 or after, died at his castle of Galway in 1271, buried at Athassel Priory, County Tipperary. He was 2nd Lord of Connaught and 1st Earl of Ulster. Second son of Richard Mor de Burgh.
In 1243, he succeeded his father as Lord of Connacht, and was created Earl of Ulster as well in 1264. In 1270, he and Walter de Ufford, the Justiciar of Ireland, were defeated by Aedh mac Felim Ua Conchobair at Ath an Chip. Aedh and the O'Connors thereafter ruled independently in Roscommon as "kings of the Gael of Connacht".[1]
Succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (The Red Earl of Ulster).
(Wikipedia)
Walter de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, married Maud, daughter and heir of Hugh de Laci, Earl of Ulster, by Emmeline, his wife, daughter and heir of Walter de Ridlesford, Lord of Bray, and became in consequence the Earl of Ulster in her right at her father's decease in 1263, and in his own right in 1264. They had four sons: Richard, Theobald, William and Thomas.
(Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, page 911)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1085 in Cardigan, Cornwall, England d. in Burgh-Next-Aylsh, Norfolk, England
- b.1110 in Burgh-Next-Aylsh, Norfolk, England d.1198
- b.1086 in Reims, Champagne, France
- b.1133 in Burgh-Next-Aylsh, Norfolk, England
- b.1083 in Norfolk, England
- b.1113 in Norfolk, England
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- b.1160 in Burgh-Next-Aylsh, Norfolk, England d.1205
- b.1138 in Norfolk, England
- b.1202 d.1242
- b.1162
- b.1220 in Ulster Planation, Ulster, Ireland d.28 Jul 1271 in Castle of Galway, Connacht, Ireland
- b.1070 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England
- b.1090 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.1163
- b.1070 in Herefordshire, England
- b.1115 in Ewias Lacy, Herefordshire, England d.Jul 1186 in Durrow, Ireland
- b.1100 in England
- b.1172 d.Dec 1241
- b.1024 in Bienfaite, Normandy, France d.1090 in St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.1065 in Clare, England d.1117 in England
- b.1034 in Longueville, France d.1133
- b.1107 in Clare, England d.1149 in England
- b.1030 in Clermont, Beauvais, France d.1101
- b.1065 in Northamptonshire, England d.1117
- b.1045 d.1100
- b.1205
- b.1073 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.1134 in Holy Land, Palestine
- b.1112 in Brecknock, Bramber, Sussex, England d.1192 in Bramber Castle, Sussex, England
- b.1084 in Barnstable, Devonshire, England
- b.1146 in Bramber, Sussex and Totnes, England d.09 Aug 1211 in Corbeil, France
- b.1092 in Gloucestershire, England d.24 Dec 1143 in Llanthonu Priory, Gloucester
- b.1130 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England d.1170
- b.1090 in Aberhonwy, Breconshire, Wales d.1143 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.1177
- b.1094 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England d.1166
- b.1117 in Isleworth, Middlesex, England
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- b.1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.1210 in Corfe, Windsor, England
- b.1128
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Details of Walter's family with Avelline Fitzgeoffrey
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I28300&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4635&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I18589
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I4635&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=arciek&id=I18589
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