Richard Óg de Burgh

Background

De Burgh was a younger, illegitimate son, of William de Burgh (died 1205). He had brothers Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught (died 1243) and Hubert de Burgh, Bishop of Limerick (died 1250).

Eponym of Clanricarde

Richard Óge is considered the ancestor of the Burke family of Clanricarde in south Connacht (now County Galway, which became an extremely powerful family in their own right following the Burke Civil War of the 1330s.

According to volume nine of A New History of Ireland, "The origins of the Clanricard line are not abolsutely proven, but the descent given" (on page 170, see family tree below) "is that in the best Irish genealogical sources and is not contradicted by contemporary sources."

Family tree

Walter de Burgh of Burgh Castle, Norfolk. =Alice | |_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | | | William de Burgh, died 1205. Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent, d. 1243. Geoffrey de Burgh, d. 1228. Thomas de Burgh | (issue; John and Hubert) |_________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught Hubert de Burgh, Bishop of Limerick, d. 1250. Richard Óge de Burgh | | | ____________________________________________________________| de Burgh Earl of Ulster, | | | Burke of Castleconnell, County Limerick | | | Mac William Iochtar Bourke of County Mayo. Hubert William Richard | | | | | |_________________ Clan Mac Hubert? Richard an Fhorbhair | | | | | _______________________________________________________________| Sir David Donn Sir William Ruad | | | | d.1327. | | | Clan Mac David Ulick Burke of Annaghkeen, d. 1343. Raymond Walter Óge | | Richard Óg Burke, d. 1387. | | Burke of Clanricarde