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Personal data Walter de Burgh Earl van Ulster 

• Alternative names: Walter de Burgh, Walter H Burgh, Walter de Burgh, Wouter de Burgh Earl van Ulster
• He was born in the year 1232 in Connaught, Ulster, Ireland.Sources 3, 4, 5, 7

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years old (11) when child (Hubert de Burgh) died (May 5, 1243).

• Resident: Ireland.Source 6
• (Walter de Burgh) on July 28, 1271 in Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland: Walter de Burgh was 2nd Lord of Connaught and 1st Earl of Ulster (after its restoration), the second son of Richard Mor de Burgh and Egidia de Lacy. He founded Athassel Priory. He married Aveline, daughter of Sir John FitzGeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland,.Source 9
• He died on July 28, 1271 in Connagh, County Galway, Ireland, he was 39 years old.Sources 3, 4, 5, 7, 8
• He is buried in Athassel, Tipperary, Ire.Sources 3, 5, 7
• A child of Richard Mor "the Great" (Earl of Ulster and Justiciar of Ireland) de Burgh and Gille Edghiva de Lacy

Household of Walter de Burgh Earl van Ulster

He is married to Aveline Fitz-John van Lutegareshale.

They got married in the year 1257 at Surrey, England, he was 25 years old.Source 3

Child(ren):

1. Agathe de Burgh  1255-????
2. Richard de Burgh  1259-1326 
3. Egidia de Burgh  1263-1327
4. William de Burgh  1265-1324
5. Hubert de Burgh  ????-1243
6. Gille de Burgh  ± 1260-± 1310

Notes about Walter de Burgh Earl van Ulster

Walter de Burgh was 2nd Lord of Connaught and 1st Earl of Ulster (after its restoration), the second son of Richard Mor de Burgh and Egidia de Lacy. He founded Athassel Priory.
He married Aveline, daughter of Sir John FitzGeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Isabel Bigod. In a royal order from Westminster in September 1247, Sir John FitzGeoffrey was charged by the King with seizing the lands of Walter de Burgh's older brother Richard, who had died. The de Burgh lands in Connaught were being held by John de Livet, likely the son of Gilbert de Lyvet, one of the earliest Lord Mayors of Dublin and Marmaduke de Eschales (Scales).
Walter was succeeded by his eldest son, Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster (The Red Earl of Ulster). Other children were: three sons, Theobald, William and Thomas, and daughter, Egidia who married Sir James Stewart (1243-1309), High Steward of Scotland.

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