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Curtis's biographical note: Burgo, Davy ‘Gall’ de, see p. 180. A descendant of Richard, Red Earl of Ulster, who founded a branch called the Gall (‘English’) Burkes of Gaulstown in County Kilkenny. In 1398 Walter MacDavid Burke was slain by the English of Munster (LC).
Curtis's biographical note: Fitzwalter, Theobald, see p. 180. This would appear to be one of the Castleconnell Burkes of Limerick and Tipperary, a family sprung from Edmund, son of the Red Earl. Edmund’s grandson, Walter, had three sons, Richard, Edmund, and Theobald; the latter is probably our Theobald FitzWalter. The father divided the family estates among the three (MS. Tract on Burkes of Castleconnell, R.I.A. 23. G. 22.).
Curtis's biographical note: Burgo, William de, see pp. 180, 186. After the murder in 1333 of William ‘Donn’, the last De Burgo Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connacht, his only child Elizabeth married Lionel of Clarence and so finally brought the earldom to the Mortimers, but the two sons of William ‘Liath’ De Burgo, kinsmen of the dead Earl, namely William or Ulick and Edmund ‘Albanach’, seized the Connacht possessions. William founded the Galway or Clanrickard Burkes, also called MacWilliam Uachtar, ‘the Upper’, and Edmund the Mayo Burkes or MacWilliam Iochtar, ‘the Lower’. In 1375 Thomas, son of Edmund, succeeded his father. In 1387 Richard Og, son of William, died and was succeeded by his son William who submits in 1395. FM under this year assert that Thomas ‘went into the King’s house and received the Lordship of the English of Connacht’, but our Submissions do not record the event. Both were regarded as rebels and usurpers of Mortimer’s lands in Connacht; they were already far hibernicized, for Edmund Albanach had married Saiv O’Malley and Ricard Og of Clanrickard had an Irish wife, More O’Madden. They were constantly at war with one another, as witness LC.
Thomas de Burgo did not submit himself, but he is referenced in the submission of Malachy O'Kelly as an ally. O'Kelly complains that he "should have visited [Richard] on the first days of [his] joyful coming to Ireland, only that [Malachy] was prevented, by [Richard's] and therefore [Malachy's] enemies and rivals continually warring against me and Thomas de Burgo, [Richard's] faithful liege."
Curtis's biographical note: After the murder in 1333 of William ‘Donn’, the last De Burgo Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connacht, his only child Elizabeth married Lionel of Clarence and so finally brought the earldom to the Mortimers, but the two sons of William ‘Liath’ De Burgo, kinsmen of the dead Earl, namely William or Ulick and Edmund ‘Albanach’, seized the Connacht possessions. William founded the Galway or Clanrickard Burkes, also called MacWilliam Uachtar, ‘the Upper’, and Edmund the Mayo Burkes or MacWilliam Iochtar, ‘the Lower’. In 1375 Thomas, son of Edmund, succeeded his father. In 1387 Richard Og, son of William, died and was succeeded by his son William who submits in 1395. FM under this year assert that Thomas ‘went into the King’s house and received the Lordship of the English of Connacht’, but our Submissions do not record the event. Both were regarded as rebels and usurpers of Mortimer’s lands in Connacht; they were already far hibernicized, for Edmund Albanach had married Saiv O’Malley and Ricard Og of Clanrickard had an Irish wife, More O’Madden. They were constantly at war with one another, as witness LC.
Margaret K. Smith