Richard Óg de Burgh


Richard Óg de Burgh, Anglo-Irish noble and soldier, ancestor of Burke of Clanricarde, fl. early-to-mid 13th century.

Background

Richard Óg de Burgh is alleged in some post-medieval sources to have been a younger, illegitimate son, of William de Burgh, Governor of Limerick, Seneschal of Munster. However, recent scholarship has shed light on the true early ancestry of the de Burgh family, most notedly that Richard Óg de Burgh, illegitimate son of William de Burgh, never existed and was a complete genealogical invention. Both Oxford Dictionary of National Biography articles published in the 21st century on William de Burgh and his son Richard de Burgh confirm that the elder William had only one son named Richard de Burgh. As such, it is widely accepted amongst eminent genealogical historians that William de Burgh had just three sons with only one being named Richard de Burgh. Therefore, it is Richard Mór de Burgh's youngest son, William Óg de Burgh, who is the ancestor of the Clanricarde. The family tree below represents the best scholarship on the different branches and lines of descent of the early de Burgh family.

Eponym of ''Clanricarde''

, 1st Lord of Connacht is considered the ancestor of the Burke family of Clanricarde in south Connacht "is that in the best Irish genealogical sources and is not contradicted by contemporary sources."

Family tree

Walter de Burgh of Burgh Castle, Norfolk.
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William de Burgh, died 1206. Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, d. 1243. Geoffrey de Burgh, d. 1228. Thomas de Burgh
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Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught Hubert de Burgh, Bishop of Limerick, d. 1250. William de Burgh, Sheriff of Connacht Richard Óge de Burgh
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de Burgh Earl of Ulster, William Óg de Burgh, d. 1270
Burke of Castleconnell, County Limerick |
Mac William Iochtar Bourke of County Mayo. |
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Sir William liath, d. 1324
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Walter, d. 1332 Sir Edmund Albanach, d. 1375 Richard an Fhorbhair Raymund Ulick of Umhall
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Ulick Burke of Annaghkeen, d. 1343. Raymond Walter Óge
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Richard Óg Burke, d. 1387.
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Ulick an Fhiona Burke of Clanricarde