Person:Elizabeth de Burghersh (1)
Elizabeth de Burghersh
b.1342 Sussex, England
d.Aug 1402
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Elizabeth de Burghersh1342 - 1402
Spouse and Children
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m. 1365
  1. Margaret le DepenserAbt 1360 - 1415
  2. Elizabeth le DespenserAbt 1366 - 1408
  3. Thomas le Despencer, Earl of Gloucester1373 - 1400
  4. Anne le Despenser - 1426
  5. Edward le Despencer
  6. Hugh le Despencer
  7. Cicely le Despencer
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Facts and Events
Name Elizabeth de Burghersh
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1342 Sussex, EnglandBurghersh?
Marriage 1365 to Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer
Death[1] Aug 1402
Reference Number? Q5363795?
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Elizabeth Despencer, 3rd Baroness Burghersh (c. 1342 – August 1402) was an English noblewoman born to Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh and Cicely Weyland.

Some recently constructed genealogies purport that she was first married, some time after 1347, to Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (d. 25 August 1390) and by him had at least four children. Yet it is more consistent with known dates of death of the 4th Earl of Kildare that he married instead Margaret, a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghersh. Otherwise there would be record of Kildare's divorce from Elizabeth and probably a mention in the original records of her 'remarriage' rather than of her 'marriage' to le Despencer.

But these 'recently constructed genealogies' appear to be incorrect. It is impossible that Elizabeth, wife of Maurice FitzGerald is the lady who remarried 2ndly Edward le Despencer. The reason is that Maurice died on 25 August 1390, well before Edward le Despencer's marriage. This makes it more certain that le Despencer married Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh the younger, 2nd Baron Burghersh.

She was married (it is said for the second time) some time before 1373, to Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer (c. 24 March 1335-6 – 11 November 1375) and they had six children. Upon the death of her father on 5 April 1369, she inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elizabeth le Despencer, Baroness le Despencer, in Wikipedia.
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