Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and 3rd Baron of Connaught (1259 – 29 July 1326), called The Red Earl (Latinized to de Burgo), was one of the most powerful Irish nobles of the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
John de Burgh (died 1313)
John de Burgh (1286 – 18 June 1313) was the son of Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and Margaret de Burgh.
Heir apparent to the Earldom of Ulster, he married (as her first husband) in Waltham Abbey, Essex, on September 30, 1308, Elizabeth de Clare, sister of Earl of Gloucester and Hertford.
She was the founder of Clare College, Cambridge, and a granddaughter of King Edward I of England.
Gloucester in turn married John's sister Matilda.
John and Elizabeth had one son:
However, John died in Galway the next year, leaving his infant son William heir to the Earldom.
William de Burgh
William de Burgh( c. 1160 – winter 1205/ 1206) was the founder of the de Burgh/ Burke/ Bourke dynasty in Ireland.
John de Halton
John de Halton( died 1324), also called John de Halghton, was an English priest and Bishop of Carlisle from 1292 to 1324.
John de Burgh (bishop)
John de Burgh, or de Burgo, or Burke (1590 – 4 April 1667) was an Irish Roman Catholic clergyman who served as Vicar Apostolic and Bishop of Clonfert from 1629 to 1647 and Archbishop of Tuam from 1647 to 1667.
John de Burgh was a member of the Clanricarde Burkes of County Galway.
He and his brother Hugh were taught by a member of the Ó Maolconaire family, from whom they learned very considerable Greek and Latin.
John and Hugh left for the continent in 1614, John to Lisbon, Hugh to Louvain where he joined the Franciscans.
John de Burgh was ordained a priest and returned to Ireland around 1624, working for two years in the Diocese of Tuam under Boetius Egan.
In 1627, on Egan's recommendation, he was appointed Apostolic Vicar of the Diocese of Clonfert by a papal brief on 13 October 1629.
During the projected Plantation of Connacht in the 1630s, his influence on Catholic members of the 1634 Parliament was so great that Lord Stafford issued warrants for his arrest,
necessitating de Burgh hiding until the Viceroy's recall.
On the recommendation of Bishop MacEgan of Elphin, he was appointed to Bishop of Clonfert on 16 October 1641, and consecrated on 9 April 1642.
He subscribed to the ordinances agreed upon for the war against Parliament, spending almost all of his time in Kilkenny assisting the seventy-two-year-old David Rothe.
During these years, Hugh de Burgh was agent for the Supreme Council at the Court of the Netherlands.
Upon the death of Malachias O'Queely, he was appointed Archbishop of Tuam by the Supreme Council of the Catholic Confederation of Ireland on 11 March 1647.
On the same date he became archbishop, his brother, Hugh, was appointed Bishop of Kilmacduagh.
He was noted as a good administrator of his dioceses, reforming many deep abuses, had churches repaired and established schools.
In matters of policy he was akin to his kinsman, Ulick Burke, Earl of Clanricarde.
He became known for founding an extensive library in Tuam, which is thought was used by the likes of John Lynch and Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh.
He also advanced a large sum to the Jesuits to maintain a seminary in Galway, in which town he built himself a residence three stories high.
He came into conflict with Walter Lynch, Vicar-capitular of Tuam, who was the Papal Nuncio's choice for the vacant see of Clonfert; however, de Burgh wanted it for his brother, Hugh.
Giovanni Battista Rinuccini described the brothers as hot-headed, and wishing to have everything their own way ... that it would be unwise to have two brothers collated to the two best dioceses in the province ... that the Archbishop of Tuam was the most unmanageable and refractory of all the Irish prelates with whom he had to deal.
He blames me for recommending Lynch, and what is worse, he blames another who is superior to us all.
He died on Holy Thursday, 4 April 1667, and was buried in the Oratory of St. Jarlath.
Hubert de Burgh (cricketer)
Captain Hubert Henry de Burgh, DSO, RN( 16 February 1879 in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland – 6 October 1960 in Naas) was an Irish cricketer and Officer in the Royal Navy.
A right- handed batsman, he played just once for the Ireland national cricket team, a first- class match against Oxford University in June 1926.
Earlier in his life, he played a first- class match in India for a" Europeans" team against a Hindus team in February 1906.
Commissioned into the Royal Navy in 1893, Hubert de Burgh served in India as Aide de Camp( ADC) to the King at the Delhi Durbar in 1911 and in St Petersburg.
During the Great
War he commanded destroyers and was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order for bravery at sea in 1917 as well as being twice mentioned in despatches.
After commanding the Admiralty Yacht and serving in the mediterranean, Captain de Burgh retired in 1923 until he rejoined the RN in 1939.
Captain de Burgh was the eldest son of Colonel Thomas John de Burgh, DL, JP of Oldtown, Naas, County Kildare( 1851–1931) and Emily, daughter of Baron de Robeck.
He was the brother of Captain Charles de Burgh DSO, RN, a submarine commander and Lieutenant Tom de Burgh of the 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers who was killed in action in 1914.
The de Burghs of Oldtown have been at Oldtown since the house was built by Colonel Thomas de Burgh, architect of Trinity College Dublin Library, The Custom House, The Royal Barracks and St Steven's Hospital in Dublin.
Hubert de Burgh and descendants are the only remaining direct descendants of William de Burgh who first settled in Ireland in 1185.
Hugh de Burgh
Hugh de Burgh( died c. 1351) was a Crown official and judge in fourteenth- century Ireland, who held the offices of Lord High Treasurer of Ireland and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
He was praised for his good service to the English Crown, but was also accused of maladministration.
Although he is thought to have been born in England, he belonged to the leading Anglo- Irish de Burgh dynasty; he was a cousin of William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, and later acted as attorney for the Earl's daughter and heiress Elizabeth, Duchess of Clarence.
Her mother, Maud of Lancaster, who was second cousin to King Edward III, used her considerable influence at Court on Hugh's behalf.
Despite subsequent complaints about his professional misconduct, he was a professional lawyer, and as such he was better qualified for appointment to the Bench than some of his colleagues, since Barons of the Court of Exchequer( Ireland) in that era were often accused of being deficient in their knowledge of the law.
As was then usual when seeking appointment to the Bench, he took holy orders.
He was in the service of the Crown in 1331, when he came to Ireland.
He later became the Irish attorney to the Queen, Philippa of Hainault.
In 1335 he became third Baron of the Court of Exchequer( Ireland).
In 1337 he was continued in office for four years in consideration of his past good service, and shortly after became Chief Baron.
He was appointed Keeper of the Great Seal of Ireland in 1339 and Lord Treasurer in 1340.
He was reappointed Chief Baron in 1344.
In 1347 he was accused of misconduct, and a commission of oyer and terminer was set up to inquire into his oppression.
Precisely what form the alleged oppression( a term which has no precise modern equivalent) took is unclear.
Later charges against his successor John de Burnham were concerned with fraud and financial mismanagement, and it seems that the Privy Council of Ireland had some doubts about de Burgh's honesty.
The complaints against him formed part of a wider pattern of general dissatisfaction with the King's servants, and as a result the commission's remit was soon extended into an examination of official wrongdoing.
John de Burnham, an English Crown official with long experience of financial administration, was sent to Ireland as Treasurer to reform these perceived abuses, only to spend much of his career fighting similar charges of corruption.
In 1348 de Burgh went to England to plead his case; presumably he made a convincing defence of his actions, since he received a royal pardon.
He returned to Ireland, and remained Chief Baron until 1351, when he probably died.
William Óg de Burgh
Sir William Óg de Burgh, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier, died 1270.
Sir William Óg was the third son of Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connacht.
De Burgh served with distinction in France with King Henry III in 1245 and later in Scotland.
He was involved in fierce feudal warfare in Ireland where he killed the Lord of Desmond.
He was killed at the Battle of Áth an Chip or Athankip by the Ua Conchobair Kings of Connacht, in 1270.
He was survived by at least one son, Sir William Liath de Burgh, Custos or Warden of Ireland, who married Una, a daughter of the Mac Jordan of Connacht, and died in 1324.
William Óg was thus ancestor
the Mac William Iochtar, the Bourkes of County Mayo.
Gylle de Burgh
Gylle de Burgh, was an Anglo- Irish Lady,( fl. 1332).
De Burgh was the only daughter of Sir William Liath de Burgh( died 1323) and a sister of Sir Walter Liath de Burgh.
Walter was captured and starved to death by his cousin, the Earl of Ulster, in 1332.
Gylle, married to Richard de Manderville, had her husband and his family kill the earl at Carrickfergus on 6 June 1333 in revenge.
This murder was directly responsible for the destruction of the great de Burgh lordship of Connacht, and the loss of Ulster to the Gaelic- Irish till the Ulster Plantations of 1610.
Walter Liath de Burgh
Sir Walter Liath de Burgh, Anglo- Irish magnate, died February 1332.
De Burgh was the eldest son of Sir William Liath de Burgh and Finola Ni Briain.
He is first attested in 1326 when he and the late Earl of Ulster's son, Sir Edmund de Burgh, were appointed guardians of the peace in Connacht, Tipperary and Limerick, and custodians of the late earl's lands in those counties.
De Burgh aggradised the lordship of Connacht to himself that in 1330, its lord, the Earl of Ulster, was forced into open conflict with de Burgh, who was his cousin.
Warfare continued till November 1331 when the Earl captured Walter and his two brothers, imprisoning them in Northburgh Castle, County Donegal.
Walter died there of starvation in February 1332.
Walter's sister, Gylle de Burgh, planned revenge on the earl.
She persuaded her husband, Richard de Mandeville, and John de Logan, both liegemen of the earl, to murder the latter at Carrickfergus on 6 June 1333.
This death was a catastrophe for the Anglo- Irish colony, as within six months all Ulster west of the Bann was lost, while Connacht descended into factionalism.
For over two hundred years it would remain largely outside the realm of the Dublin government.
Walter was married to a woman called Margaret, and had one known child, Matilda.
Margaret later married Aedh O Conchobair, a king of Connacht.
She died in 1361.
Matilda married William, son of Sir John Darcy.

Question: What nationality is John De Burgh (Died 1313)'s father?
Answer: Irish