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 ULSTER. 5 II. 1255 f i. Walter db Burgh, (*) feudal Lord of Connaught|(*) 2ft 8. of Richard db nuRaH(^), nlso fetKlnl Lord of Connaught {a, 1243), by, Rpparenily, Egidin, do. of Walter DK Laot, feudnl Lord of Meath, elder br. of Hugh, Karl of ulstrr [I.]. He iue. his elder br. lUchard, in the Lordahip of CoDoeught, 1248, but nppeara not to have become of fall age till 1253. He was in constant warfare with the race of O'Connor and with the Irish of Connaught. Between 1254 and 1256(") he acquired from Kdward, the Black Prince (who in 1254 bad been made Lord of Ireland), the '* County of Ulster " (in exchange for Uie manor of Kilsilan), and probably was Ukmi reooguiee<] (as he certainly was at some date before 1205) as EARL OK ULSTKIl [I.] («) He «.(<*) Avelina, 8d of the four bistera who, or whose issue, became in 1207 coheirs of Richard (Kits John), Lord Fits John, s. of John Fits John (sum. to [iiontford*$] Pari, in 1264), by Margery, da. of Philip Babbst. Hed. after a week s illness, at his Castle at Galway, 1271 tod was 6tir. at Athaasil Abbey near CaaheL His wife, or widow, d» before 1297. £. RioHARD (db Burgh), Earl of Ulstsr [I. I Ist b. and u,{*) b. probably about 1250, $ue. his father in 1271, being un- m. 1271. doubtedly a minor a-hen he was brought over to the King at Woodstock in 1274. He was by far the most powerful of the Kngliah nobles in Ireland, and was constantly embroiled with the uatite lri»h Princes, more (-specially with those of Connaught, and also with the race of FitsGcrald. He inherited, in 1207f thro' his mother, large estates in Thoniond and the siiuth of Ireland, and some also in Rngland.(^) He served against France 1204 and 1297, " led more than 16,000 men from Ireland for the Ballioi campaign of 1206 ; and at the second conquest of 1804, received (Feb.) the submission of the Booteh Governor, John Comyn. Before setting out on this Expedition he is said to have dubbed S3 Knights in Dublin Castle. In these cam- paigns he spent his money so lavishly on the King's behalf that in 1808 m<»re than £2,000 was still owing to him by the Crown out of an original debt of £4,000.**(*) He was occasionally sura. to(S) attend the English i>arl. m„ that at Westminster, in Lent 1808, and that at Linoi>ln in 1818 ; was appointed Ch. Gov. of Ireland, 15 June 1808, but superseded the ueit day ; opposed the invasion of Ulster by Edward Bnioe(^) in 1815, tbo,' his loyalty being suspected, he was for a short time in 1817 (■) See T. A. Archer's article on him in the NaL Biog, (^) This Richard was undoubtedly nephew to the great Hubert de Burgh, Chief Juf- ticiar [1. 1282], and son of William de Burgh, feudal Lord of Connaught (cf. 1205), who poasiUy was the same as William FitsAldelm, "Henry II. *s Iriui Justiciar" [See note ''^a " above.] (') " It is possible that he nay have put forward some vague claim [to the Earldom of Ulster] in virtue of his maternal descent from Walter de Laci, who held Ulster for a few years by the gift of King Henry." [See note " a " above.] (<>) His wife is very frequently said to have been Maud, da. and h. of Hugh (de Lacy), Earl of Ulster |I.], so that he, in her right, consequently inherited the Earldom on her father's death m 1248. (See p. 8, note " e "), but " there does not seem to be any evidence in support of this theory, which makes its first appearance in certain ' Fragmenia Hxaiorim Hibemia ' preserved in a fifteenth century Manuscript, further back than which date no allusion to this Maud de Laci can be traced. Her name is not to be found in oontempfirary documents." [See note " a " above.] (*) An elaborate aooouut of the dispersal of the FitsJohn estates is given in '* Dugdsle " under that family. (0 Coke [InU iv, 850] remarks that " sometimes the King of England called bis Noblea of Ireland to come to his Pari of England," &c, and quotes, " Rot ParW* 8 Ed. II., m. 81, " Rex . . . mandavit Ricardo de Burgo, Com. Ulton'. et aliis Nobilibtts terra prediete quod sint ad parliamentum suum quodsummoneri fecit apud Weetm." &o. (K) Such summons coupled with sitting may be held to have created an English Barony in fee. See Vol I, p. 92, note " i," sub. " Angus^" where the summons to Gilbert de UmfraviUi Earl of Angus [S.], is treated as having cr. an Engh'sh Barony of UmfravilL (^) One of his daughters had m. in 1802 (as a second wife) the well known Robert Bniee, crowned King of Scotland, 1806, elder br. of tha said Edward Bruce