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Elizabeth de Burghersh
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Elizabeth Burghersh married the fourth Earl of Kildare at Calais in 1347, bringing Verdon blood back to Ireland.
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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.'