Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster

Elizabeth de Burgh
Arms of de Burgh: Or, a cross gules.[1]
suo jure Countess of Ulster
PredecessorWilliam Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl
SuccessorPhilippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess with Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March
jure uxoris EarlLionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Born6 July 1332
Carrickfergus Castle, Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland
Died10 December 1363
Dublin, Ireland
Burial
Bruisyard, Suffolk
Spouse
IssuePhilippa Plantagenet, 5th Countess of Ulster
HouseBurgh
FatherWilliam Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
MotherMaud of Lancaster

Elizabeth de Burgh,[2] Duchess of Clarence, suo jure 4th Countess of Ulster and 5th Baroness of Connaught (English: /dˈbɜːr/; d’-BER; 6 July 1332 – 10 December 1363) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman who married Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.

  1. ^ Burke, Bernard (1884). The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time. University of California Libraries. London: Harrison & Sons.
  2. ^ Duggan, Anne; Ward, Jennifer C. (2000). Nobles and Nobility in Medieval Europe: Concepts, Origins, Transformations. Martlesham: Boydell & Brewer. p. 251. ISBN 9780851158822. Retrieved 12 September 2021. (...) because of the number of sons born to the higher nobility in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, (...) The emphasis on agnatic lineage was reflected in the fact that the woman kept her natal family name when she married and did not become fully a member of her marital kin.

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