William FitzAdelm de Burgh [60103]

  General Notes:

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"Before the death of Henry II (1189) he received a grant of lands from John as lord of Ireland. At John's accession (1109) he was installed in Thomond and was governor of Limerick. In 1190-1201 he was supporting in turn Cathal Carrach and Cathal Crovderg for the native throne, but he was expelled from Limerick in 1203, and, losing his Connaught, though not his Munster, estates, died in 1205." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1956 Edition, 4:401. William's brother, Hubert (d. 1243), was a celebrated Chief Justiciar of England; his story is told in Chapter V of "The Magnificent Century," Thomas B. Costain {(Doubleday & Co., 1951)}. {W.H.Turton gives different parents for William in "The Plantagenet Ancestry" (Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co., 1968),p.92.}

DESCENDANT OF CHARLEMAGNE AND ALFRED THE GREAT

GRANDSON OF KING LOUIS VII OF FRANCE AND ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

NEPHEW OF KING JOHN AND KING RICHARD I

STEWARD TO HENRY II, LORD OF CONNAUGHT

CHIEF GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, GOVERNOR OF LIMERICK

PROGENITOR OF THE BURKES IN IRELAND

During the reign of King Henry II of England, William took part in the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1171, was made Governor of Limerick and succeeded Richard "Strongbow" de Clare as Governor of Ireland. He consolidated his position by marrying the native Irish daughter of the King of Thomond. William was also granted lands in Connaught which he secured by conquering the inhabitant O'Conor family. William was buried in Athassel Abbey which he had founded.

BURKE'S PEERAGE:
Sir Bernard Burke (1814 - 92) and his father John Burke (1787 - 1848) were genealogists who published a number of volumes on the pedigree of British and Irish aristocracy, including "Burke's Peerage."

Sir Bernard Burke, from "Burke's Peerage," 1876:
"The family of de Burgh, de Burgo, or Bourke...ranks amongst the most distinguished in the Kingdom, and deduces an uninterrupted line of powerful nobles from the Conquest. John, Earl of Comyn, and Baron of Tonsburgh, in Normandy (whose descent has been deduced from Charlemagne), being general of the King's forces, and governor of his chief towns, assumed thence the surname of de Burgh. The family of de Burgh, or Burke, has, since the reigns of Henry III and Edward I, been esteemed one of the most opulent and powerful of the Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland, under Strongbow. It held, by conquest and regal grant, whole territories in the counties Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, Tipperary, and Limerick; and so extended were its possessions, that its very cadets became persons of wealth, and were founders of distinguished houses themselves."

THE FAMILY ARMS:
According to legend, during the Crusades, Richard I dipped his finger in the blood of Saracen, slain by one of the de Burghs, and drew a cross on the Saracen's golden shield, which he presented to the victorious de Burgh.
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William married Juliana Daisnel [10414] [MRIN: 4592], daughter of Robert Daisnel [60099] and Unknown, about 1157 in England. (Juliana Daisnel [10414] was born about 1157 in England.)