Egidia (Gille) DE LACY (1205?- )

	Trim Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland, the birthplace of Egidia de Lacy.

Name:	Egidia (Gille) DE LACY 1
Sex:	Female
Father:	Walter DE LACY ( -1241)
Mother:	Margaret (Margary) DE BRAOSE ( -1200)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	1205 (app)	Trim Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland
Occupation		Lady of Connacht
Death		Ireland

Marriage

Spouse	Richard Mór DE BURGH ( -1242)
Children	Walter DE BURGH (1230?-1271)
	Matilde (?) DE BURGH ( - )

Individual Note

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht (born c. 1205), was a Hiberno-Norman noblewoman, the wife of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught and Strathearn (c.1194–1242), and the mother of his seven children, including Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster. She was also known as Gille de Lacy. Egidia was the daughter of Walter II de Lacy by his 2nd wife Margaret de Braose.

 

Egidia de Lacy was born at Trim Castle, Co. Meath, Ireland about 1205, the daughter of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim Castle in Meath and Ludlow Castle in Shropshire (c.1172- 1241), and Margaret de Braose (1177- after 1255). Egidia was also known as Gille. She was one of at least six children. Her brother Gilbert de Lacy (c.1202- 25 December 1230), married Isabel Bigod, by whom he had issue. Her sister Pernel de Lacy (c.1201- after 25 November 1288), married firstly, William St. Omer, and secondly, Ralph VI de Toeni, by whom she had issue.

 

Egidia'a paternal grandparents were Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, and Rohese of Monmouth, and her maternal grandparents were William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber, and Maud de St. Valery.

 

On 21 April 1225, she married Richard Mor de Burgh (1194- 17 February 1243), Lord of Connacht (May 1227- 1242/1243), Justiciar of Ireland (1228–1232) , the son of William de Burgh and More O' Brien, daughter of Donal Mor mac Turlough O' Brien, King of Thomond and Orlachan MacMurrough of Leinster. The marriage produced seven children:

 

Richard de Burgh, Lord of Connacht (died 1248)

Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster (1230- 28 July 1271), married Aveline FitzJohn, daughter of John FitzGeoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland and Isabel Bigod, by whom he had issue, including Richard Og de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster.

William de Burgh (died 1270), married and had a son, William Liath.

Margery de Burgh (died after 1 March 1253), married Theobald le Botiller, son of Theobald le Botiller, chief Butler of Ireland and Joan du Marais, by whom she had issue. They were ancestors of the Butler Earls of Ormond.

Unnamed daughter who married Gerald de Prendergast, by whom she had issue, including a daughter Maud de Prendergast who in her turn married as his first wife Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly. Maurice FitzGerald and Maud de Prendergast were the parents of a daughter, Juliana FitzGerald.

Unnamed daughter who married Hamon de Valoignes, by whom she had issue.

Alice de Burgh

 

Egidia died on an unknown date in Ireland.

 

Egidia had many notable descendants, including Elizabeth de Burgh, Catherine Parr,[1] Margaret de Clare, the Earls of Ormond, and many Kings and Queens of Scotland and England. She was the ancestor of both Anne Boleyn and King Henry VIII of England, the parents of Elizabeth I. Through the Royal families of England and Scotland, she became the ancestor of Royal houses all over Europe.

 

Egidia became:

 

the ancestor of David II, James V, Mary I, and James VI of Scotland;

the ancestor of all the Kings and Queens regnant of England from Edward IV to Elizabeth II, with the single exception of Henry VII who was married to her greatx9-granddaughter Elizabeth of York, daughter of Edward IV.

Line of descent for the Scottish Royal family from Egidia de Lacy to David II of Scotland:

 

Egidia de Lacy (b.c.1205)

Walter de Burgh (c.1230–1271)

Richard Og de Burgh (1259–1326)

Elizabeth de Burgh (c.1284–1327), the wife of Robert the Bruce (Robert I of Scotland)

David II of Scotland (1324–1371)

 

Line of descent for the English Royal family from Egidia de Lacy to Edward IV of England:

 

Egidia de Lacy (b.c.1205)

Walter de Burgh (c.1230–1271)

Richard Og de Burgh (1259–1326)

John de Burgh (c.1286–1313)

William Donn de Burg (1312–1333)

Elizabeth de Burgh (1332–1363), the wife of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence, 3rd son of Edward III of England

Phillipa of Clarence (1355–1382), the wife of Edmund Mortimer

Roger de Mortimer (1374–1398)

Anne de Mortimer (1390–1411), the wife of Richard of Conisburgh

Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (1411–1460)

both Edward IV of England (1442–1483) and Richard III of England (1452–1485)

From Edward IV descend all subsequent Kings and Queens regnant of England who followed his brother Richard III, with only 1 exception as mentioned above, as well as James V of Scotland and his descendants.

 

Another link exists into the Royal Windsor family through Sarah Ferguson via Wingfield, Meade, O'Brien, Fitzgerald, and then to Richard Og de Burgh, a grandson of the said Egidia de Lacy, and a greatx5-grandson of Walter de Lacey the Norman soldier. This link makes Sarah Ferguson and her ex-spouse, Queen Elizabeth II's second son Prince Andrew, Duke of York, distant cousins.

 

NOTES:

1 Tudor Place, Entry: Mary Talbot

 

REFERENCES:

Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Lords of Meath

Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Earls of Ulster²

Sources

1	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 168, 177B-8.

2	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egidia_de_Lacy.