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de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, and Earl of Ulster

• References:
  • DE BURGH in [Burkes Extinct]
  • SLIGO in [Burkes Peerage]
  • MAYO in [Burkes Peerage]
  • DE BURGH in [Burkes Irish, 1958]
  • DE BURGH in [Burkes Irish, 1976]

• Sources yet to be consulted:
  • Family Tree magazine, vol.3 no.8 (June 1987), p.7 (ancestry of Chris de Burgh).

William de Burgh (see here),
arrived in Ireland temp Henry II, shortly after the invasion of 1169,
made Lord of Connacht,
there was a claim that he descended from Robert de Burgo, half-brother of William the Conqueror,
but ULSTER in [Complete Peerage] says this has been totally disproved,
said to have mar a dau of Donal O'Brien, King of Thomond [descendant of Brian Boru],
Lord Deputy of Ireland,
had issue:

1. Richard de Burgh, the Great, Lord of Connacht (see here),
   Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1227-9,
   built Galway Castle 1232,
   mar Giles de Lacy and had issue:

   
   

   1. Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connacht.

   2. Walter de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, had issue:
      1. Richard de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, had issue:
         1. John de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, mar 1308 to Elizabeth de Clare [grand-dau of Edward I] and had issue:
            1. William de Burgh, Earl of Ulster, mar Maud Plantagenet [descendant of Henry III] and had issue:
               1. Elizabeth (Isabella) de Burgh, Countess of Ulster, mar Lionel Plantagenet and had issue.

         2. Joan de Burgh,
            mar 1stly, 1312, to Thomas Fitzgerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare and had issue,
            mar 2ndly, 1329, to John D'Arcy, 1st Baron D'Arcy [see D'ARCY in [Burkes Extinct]] and had issue:
            1. William D'Arcy, of Plattyn, Co.Meath, ancestor of D'Arcy's of Ireland.
            2. Elizabeth D'Arcy, mar 1346 to James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde and had issue.

   3. William de Burgh, had issue:
      1. William de Burgh, had issue:
         1. Ulick de Burgh,
            ancestor of Earl and Marquess of Clanricarde [of the Jacobean semi-fortified house Portumna Castle, Co.Galway].

         2. Edmund Albanach de Burgh,
            ancestor of Viscount and Earl of Mayo.

      
      

   4. Margery de Burgh,
      mar Theobald le Botiller and had issue.

Edmund Albanach de Burgh is ancestor of:

Rev. Richard Burgh, had issue:

Rev. Ulysses Burgh, Bishop of Ardagh, mar Mary Kingsmill [descendant of Edward I, see descent by Leo van de Pas] and had issue:

Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland, mar Mary Smyth and had issue:

Thomas Burgh, mar 2ndly to Katherine Wolseley and had issue:

Thomas Burgh, mar Florinda Gardiner [descendant of Edward I, see descent and descent by Leo van de Pas] and had issue:

Rev. Thomas Burgh, mar Anna Hely-Hutchinson and had issue:

Thomas de Burgh, mar Jane Campbell-Graham and had issue:

Thomas de Burgh, mar Emily de Robeck and had issue:

Sir Eric de Burgh, born 1881, mar Mary Fanshawe and had issue:

Maeve de Burgh, born 1926, mar Charles Davison and had issue:

1. Chris de Burgh, the musician,
   born 1948, had issue:
   1. Rosanna Davison, born 1984, model.

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• de Burgh by Peter Barns-Graham

• De Burgh of Oldtown by Turtle Bunbury

• Rosanna Davison's ancestry was traced on "Who Do You Think You Are?", RTE TV, 28 Sept 2009. This re-stated the disproved story of connection to the half-brother of William the Conqueror. This was unnecessary since through female lines there are direct, proven descents from William the Conqueror himself (and from later monarchs).