Maud de Burgh

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Maud de Burgh (also Matilda de Burgh ; * around 1290; † uncertain: July 2, 1320 ) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman.

Maud de Burgh was a daughter of the Irish nobleman Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster , and Margaret de Burgh, a daughter of John de Burgh of Lanvalry. On June 10, 1308, her father signed a marriage contract with John de Bermingham after Bermingham should marry Maud. Presumably through the mediation of Richard de Clare, Lord of Thomond , Maud married Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford , one of the most powerful English magnates, in Ireland on September 29, 1308 . Just a day later, her brother John de Burgh married Elizabeth de Clare , a sister of her husband. John de Bermingham later married Maud's sister Aveline.

It is said that Maud had a son, John, born in April 1312, but he died again that same year. After her husband died at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 , the Clares' vast estates were to be divided among her husband's three sisters, Eleanor , Margaret and Elizabeth. However, Maud stated that she was pregnant. King Edward II hoped that she would give birth to a possible heir, assigned her a provisional Wittum at the end of 1314 and postponed the division of the property. At the end of 1315, she is said to have still been pregnant, which her brother-in-law Hugh le Despenser described as impossible. He arbitrarily occupied part of the Clares' possessions, which he soon had to vacate under pressure from the king. Only in 1317 was it officially determined by parliament that Maud was not pregnant, after which the Clares' possessions were finally divided up. As the widow of the last Earl of Hertford, Maud received a third of his estate, including the Usk reign in Wales and most of the Honor of Gloucester with Tewkesbury . She did not remarry and was buried at Tewkesbury Abbey . After her death, her share was divided among her three sisters-in-law and their husbands.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Peerage: John de Bermingham, 1st and last Earl of Louth. Retrieved May 24, 2015 .
  2. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 46
  3. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 40
  4. ^ Michael Altschul: A baronial family in medieval England. The Clares. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1965, p. 166
personal data
SURNAME Burgh, Maud de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Burgh, Matilda de; Clare, Maud de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Anglo-Irish nobles
DATE OF BIRTH around 1290
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: July 2, 1320