Margery de Burgh

Margery de Burgh
Spouse(s)	Theobald Le Botiller
Issue
Theobald Le Botiller Elizabeth Butler (Le Botiller)
Noble family	de Burgh
Father	Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connaught
Mother	Egidia de Lacy
Born	Unknown Ireland
Died	after 1 March 1253

Margery de Burgh (died after 1 March 1253), was a Norman- Irish noblewoman and the wife of Theobald Le Botiller. She was a descendant of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, and the ancestress of the Earls of Ormond.

Family and lineage

Margery de Burgh was born in Ireland, the eldest daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connacht and Justiciar of Ireland, and Egidia de Lacy. She had three brothers and three sisters, including Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster who married Aveline FitzJohn, by whom he had issue.

Margery's paternal grandparents were William de Burgh and More O'Brien, a granddaughter of Dermot MacMurrough,^[1] and a descendant of Brian Boru. Her maternal grandparents were Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim Castle in Meath and Ludlow Castle in Shropshire, and Margaret de Braose.

Marriage and issue

Sometime before 1242, Margery married Theobald Le Botiller (1224–1248), the eldest son of Theobald le Botiller, chief Butler of Ireland and his first wife Joan du Marais.

Margery and Theobald had two recorded children:

• Theobald Le Botiller (1242- 26 September 1285), who married, in 1268, Joan FitzJohn ( died 26 May 1303), daughter of John FitzGeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland, and Isabel Bigod. Joan was a younger sister of his uncle's wife, Aveline FitzJohn. The marriage produced issue, from whom descended the Earls of Ormond.
• Elizabeth Butler (Le Botiller)

Death

Margery's husband died in 1248. He was buried before 3 August 1248 at Arklow, Co. Limerick. On 27 April 1250, she made a fine to remarry.^[2]

Margery de Burgh died on an unrecorded date after 1 March 1253.

References

1. ^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Ulster
2. ^ thePeerage.com

1. Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Ulster
2. [1]

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Name	Burgh, Margery de
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Place of birth	Ireland
Date of death	1 March 1253
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