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Birth:          ABT 1203 Galway, Connaught, Ireland
Death:          17 Feb 1242 Gascony, France

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%C3%B3r_de_Burgh,_1st_Baron_of_Connaught
Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connacht (c. 1194 – 1242),[1] was a Hiberno-
Norman aristocrat and Justiciar of Ireland.
Background[edit]

De Burgh was the eldest son of William de Burgh and his wife who was a daughter of 
Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond. De Burgh's principal estate was in the 
barony of Loughrea where he built a castle in 1236 and a town was founded. He also 
founded Galway town and Ballinasloe. The islands on Lough Mask and Lough Orben 
were also part of his demesne.

From the death of his father in 1206 to 1214, Richard was a ward of the crown of 
England until he received his inheritance. In 1215 he briefly served in the household 
of his uncle Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. In 1223 and again in 1225 he was 
appointed seneschal of Munster and keeper of Limerick castle.[2]

Connacht[edit]

In 1224, Richard claimed Connacht, which had been granted to his father but never, 
in fact, conquered by him. He asserted that the grant to Cathal Crobdearg Ua 
Conchobair, the Gaelic king, after his father's death had been on condition of faithful 
service, and that his son Aedh mac Cathal Crobdearg Ua Conchobair, who succeeded 
Cathal that year, had forfeited it. He had the favour of the justiciar of England, Hubert 
de Burgh, and was awarded Connacht in May 1227. Having been given custody of the 
counties of Cork and Waterford and all the crown lands of Decies and Desmond, he 
was appointed Justiciar of Ireland from 1228 to 1232.

When in 1232 Hubert de Burgh fell from grace, Richard was able to distance himself 
and avoid being campaigned against by the king of England, Henry III. It was only in 
1235 when he summoned the whole feudal host of the English lords and magnates to 
aid him that he expelled Felim mac Cathal Crobderg Ua Conchobair, the Gaelic king, 
from Connacht. He and his lieutenants received great shares of land, while Felim was 
obliged to do homage and was allowed only to keep five cantreds Roscommon from 
the Crown. Richard de Burgh held the remaining 25 cantreds of Connacht in chief of 
the crown of England. De Burgh took the title of "Lord of Connacht".[1]

Wife and children[edit]

Before 1225 he married Egidia de Lacy, daughter of Walter de Lacy, and Margaret de 
Braose. With this alliance he acquired the cantred of Eóghanacht Caisil with the 
castle of Ardmayle in Tipperary.

Richard de Burgh had three sons and may have had four daughters:
Sir Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, Constable of Montgomery Castle, married a 
relative of Eleanor of Provence,[3] but died without issue in Poitou in 1248.
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, Lord of Connaught, died 1271.
William Óg de Burgh, who was the ancestor of the Mac William family, died 1270.
Aleys married Muirchertach O Briain.
Margery de Burgh (? – after March 1253), married Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of 
Ireland
Unnamed daughter who married Sir Gerald de Prendergast of Beauvoir, by whom she 
had a daughter, Maud.
Unnamed daughter who married Hamon de Valoynes and had a daughter, Mabel de 
Valoynes.

Richard died on 17 February 1241/42.

Parents
DE BURGH William (ABT 1170 - 1206)
O'BRIEN More (ABT 1178 - )

Siblings
DE BURGH Richard Mor (ABT 1203 - 17 Feb 1242)

Marriage To DE LACY Egidia (Jill) (ABT 1205 - )
    m. 21 Apr 1225 

Notes

Parents
DE LACY Walter (ABT 1172 - 24 Nov 1241)
DE BRAOSE Margaret (ABT 1177 - AFT 1255)

Children by DE LACY Egidia (Jill) ABT 1205 - 
DE BURGH Margaret (Margery) (ABT 1226 - 1 Mar 1252)
DE BURGH Walter (ABT 1230 - 28 Jul 1271)

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