ROBERT DE BURGH

Robert de Burgh, Earl of Moreton in Normandy, son of Harlowen de Burgh, by Arlotta, his wife, mother of William the Conqueror, participated with his half-brother in the triumph at Hastings, was created Earl of Cornwall, and received, as a further recompense, grants of seven hundred and ninety-three manors. This potent noble left one son, William Earl of Cornwall, who, rebelling against the first HENRY, joined Robert of Normandy, and led the van at the battle of Tenchebray. In this conflict, after displaying great personal valour, he fell into the hands of his opponents and was sent prisoner to England, where he was treated with much cruelty, the king causing his eyes to be put out, and detaining him in captivity for life. The period of the Earl's death is not recorded, but Lodge (Peerage of Ireland, Vol. I.) states that the ill-fated nobleman left two sons - I. Adelm, from whom descended the Burghs, Earls of Ulster, the noble House of Clanricarde, and the various families of Burke, so widely scattered over the south west district of Ireland: and II. John, whose son, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, was Justiciary of England, temp. Henry III., and one of the greatest subjects in England. [Hubert de Burgh married, 1st, Joan, daughter of William de Vermin, Earl of Devon; 2nd, Beatrix, daughter of William de Warren, of Wermgay, in Norfolk; 3rd; Isabel, daughter and coheir of William Earl of Gloucester; and 4th, Margaret, daughter of William, King of Scotland. His lordship had issue a son, SIR HUBERT DE BURGH, whose son, WILLIAM DE BURGH, summoned to Parliament 1st of Edward III., had, with an elder son JOHN, ancestor of the LORDS BURGH of Gainsborough, a younger son SIR HUGH DE BURGH, Knt., who married Elizabeth, sole daughter and heiress of Foulk, Lord of Mawddwy in Merioneth, grandson of William, (living 17 Edward I.) fourth son of Griffith ap Gwenwynwyn, Prince of Powys Wenwynwyn, and was father of a son and heir, SIR JOHN DR BURGH, Knt., Lord of Mawddwy, who married Joan, daughter and coheir of Sir William Clopton, Knt. of Clopton, co. Warwick, and Radbrook, co. Gloucester, and had issue four daughters and coheirs - I. Elizabeth, married Thomas Newport, Esq., of High Ercall, ancestor of the extinct Earls of Bradford, and their descendants in the female line, the present EARL or BRADFORD; II. Ancreda, married John Leighton, Esq., of Stratton, and jure uxoris of Watlesboro', ancestor of the present SIR BALDWIN, LEIGHTON, Bart. of Watlesboro' and Loton Park; III. Isabel, married Sir John Lingeyn, Knt. of Lingeyn, and jure uxoris, of Radbrook, ancestor of Robert Lingen, Esq., of Sutton Court, Herefordshire and Radbrook, who assumed the name of BURTON, and was father of ROBERT BURTON, Esq., of Longnor-Hall and of Radbrook; IV. Eleanor, married Thomas Mytton, Esq., M.P. for Shrewsbury in 1472, jure uxoris, Lord of the Barony of Mawddwy, ancestor of, I. The MYTTONS OF HALSTON; II. MYTTONS OF GARTH AND PENYLAN; III. MUTTON (SIR PETER) OF LLANERCH PARE, CO. Denbigh, whose daughter and coheir, Anne Mutton, of Llanerch Park, married Robert Davies, Esq., of Gwysaney, Co. Flint, and from this marriage derived the DAVIES'S of Gwyaaney and the late Thomas Davies, Esq., of Trefynant, Co. Denbigh, father of OWEN DAVIES, Esq., of Eton House, Co. Kent, and of Elizabeth Davies, married to the late William Hughes, Esq., of Pen-y-clawdd, male representative of Hughes of Gwerclas.]

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)