Gylle de Burgh ( ; ) was an
Anglo-Irish
Anglo-Irish people () denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. They mostly belong to the Anglican Church of Ireland, which was the State rel ...
noblewoman
A noblewoman is a female member of the nobility. Noblewomen form a disparate group, which has evolved over time. Ennoblement of women has traditionally been a rare occurrence; the majority of noblewomen were linked to the nobility by either their ...
and wife of Richard de Manderville.
De Burgh was the only daughter of Sir
William Liath de Burgh (died 1323) and a sister of Sir
Walter Liath de Burgh
Sir Walter Liath de Burgh ( ; died February 1332) was an Anglo-Irish noble whose imprisonment by the Earl of Ulster and death from starvation led to the Earl's murder the following year.
Early life
De Burgh was the eldest son of Sir William Li ...
. Walter was captured and starved to death by his cousin, the
Earl of Ulster
The title of Earl of Ulster has been created six times in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since 1928, the title has been held by the Duke of Gloucester and is used as a courtesy title by the Duke's el ...
, in 1332.
Gylle, married to
Richard de Manderville, had her husband and his family kill the earl at
Carrickfergus
Carrickfergus ( , meaning " Fergus' rock") is a large town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It sits on the north shore of Belfast Lough, from Belfast. The town had a population of 28,141 at the 2021 census. It is County Antrim's oldest t ...
on 6 June 1333 in revenge. This murder was directly responsible for the destruction of the great de Burgh lordship of
Connacht
Connacht or Connaught ( ; or ), is the smallest of the four provinces of Ireland, situated in the west of Ireland. Until the ninth century it consisted of several independent major Gaelic kingdoms (Uí Fiachrach, Uí Briúin, Uí Maine, C ...
, and the loss of Ulster to the
Gaelic
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Languages
* Gaelic languages or Goidelic languages, a linguistic group that is one of the two branches of the Insul ...
-Irish till the Ulster Plantations of 1610.
See also
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House of Burgh
The House of Burgh (; ; ), also known by the family names of Burke and Bourke (), is an Ireland, Irish family, descending from the Anglo-Normans, Anglo-Norman de Burgh dynasty, who played a prominent role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Irel ...
, an
Anglo-Norman and
Hiberno-Norman
Norman Irish or Hiberno-Normans (; ) is a modern term for the descendants of Norman settlers who arrived during the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in the 12th century. Most came from England and Wales. They are distinguished from the native ...
dynasty founded in 1193
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Earl of Ulster
The title of Earl of Ulster has been created six times in the Peerage of Ireland and twice in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Since 1928, the title has been held by the Duke of Gloucester and is used as a courtesy title by the Duke's el ...
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14th-century Irish people
14th-century Irish women
People from County Mayo
People from County Galway
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