Elizabeth de Burghersh
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Elizabeth de Burghersh, daughter of the 1st Lord Burghersh, was married at Calais in 1347; the year after Crécy; into the Despenser line.
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✓ ELIZABETH, da. of BARTHOLOMEW (DE BURGHERSH), 1st LORD BURGHERSH, by ELIZABETH DE VERDUN; m. at Calais 1347 Maurice 4th Earl of Kildare; mother of Gerald 5th Earl (our line). Source: standard account (CP 'Kildare'/'Ulster'; web-confirmed 6 Aug 2026 pending the CP Kildare pp.368-73 photographs); contested rungs note-only, not hardened. ||UPGRADED ✓ 6 Aug 2026 (CP Kildare p.369 read)|| Exactly as wired: 'He m. at Calais, in 1347, Elizabeth, da. of Bartholomew (DE BURGHERSH), LORD BURGHERSH, by Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Theobald (DE VERDON), LORD VERDON.' ||NOT A DUPLICATE (8 Aug 2026, CP BURGHERSH)|| This Elizabeth (m. Maurice FitzGerald 4th Earl of Kildare) is a DAUGHTER of the elder Bartholomew x Elizabeth de Verdun - i.e. the AUNT of the other Elizabeth de Burghersh (I100589), Baroness Burghersh, who married Edward le Despenser and was daughter of the YOUNGER Bartholomew. Same name, one generation apart, both our ancestresses by different descents.