Michael Linton's Bayeux Tapestry: 1066 - A Medieval Mosaic and Puzzles
Medieval Mosaic
THE
BATTLE ABBEY ROLL.
WITH SOME
ACCOUNT OF THE NORMAN LINEAGES.
IN THREE VOLUMES.—VOL. I
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1889.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
This electronic edition
was prepared by
Michael A. Linton, 2007
www.1066.co.nz
"They who assumed the surname of Burgh, or Burke, are descended from William Fitz-Adelm, steward of Henry II., and Governor of Wexford in Ireland."—Sir Egerton Brydges. This refers to the existing family, whose splendid pedigree, giving them "an Imperial Carlovingian descent in the male line, and a more dignified origin than the houses of Bourbon, Hanover, Saxony, Savoy, or Stuart," dates only from about the middle of the last century, when it appeared for the first time in an Irish peerage, and is utterly ignored by Dugdale and the older authorities. "Burgh" must here stand for Serlo de Burgh, a powerful Northern baron in the time of the Conqueror, who built Knaresborough Castle, and appears to have taken his name from the manor of Burgh,[59] in Yorkshire. He left no son, and was succeeded by his nephew Eustace Fitzjohn, who married two of the greatest heiresses in England, and founded the illustrious houses of De Vesci and De Lacy. (See Vescy and Lacy.)
Footnotes
- ↑ "Serlo had his name evidently from Aldburgh, then simply 'Burg,' as in Domesday Book; whereas it was his contemporary Robert de 'Burch,' of Burgh, in Norfolk, who was ancestor of Hubert and the Irish Burkes."—A. S. Ellis.