Joan de Burgh

✓ LADY JOAN DE BURGH (d.1359), 3rd da. of RICHARD DE BURGH, 'the RED EARL', 2nd Earl of ULSTER; m. 16 Aug 1312 at Greencastle Thomas FitzGerald 2nd Earl of Kildare; mother of Maurice 4th Earl (b.1318, 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 pp.368-69 now photographed and read)|| CP confirms all as wired, and adds: her mother = MARGARET, da. of Sir JOHN DE BURGH of LANVALLEY; the 2nd Earl d. Maynooth 9 Apr 1328; Joan m. 2ndly 3 Jul 1329 Sir JOHN DARCY, Lord Justice of Ireland (stepfather-guardian of the 4th Earl); she d. 23 Apr 1359, bur. Grey Abbey Kildare. CP's footnote names her five sisters: Ellen (so CP; usually Elizabeth) m. ROBERT BRUCE, KING OF SCOTLAND; Maud m. Gilbert de Clare Earl of Gloucester; Catharine m. the Earl of Louth; MARGARET m. MAURICE 1st EARL OF DESMOND (I100237 - so the Red Earl's daughters stand behind BOTH our Kildare and, collaterally, our Desmond lines); Eleanor said to have m. Lord Multon.