Margery de Burgh was a Norman

Normans

The Normans were the people who gave their name to Normandy, a region in northern France. They were descended from Norse Viking conquerors of the territory and the native population of Frankish and Gallo-Roman stock...

- Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 noblewoman and the wife of Theobald Le Botiller. She was a descendant of Brian Boru

Brian Boru

Brian Bóruma mac Cennétig, , , was an Irish king who ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland by the Uí Néill. Building on the achievements of his father, Cennétig mac Lorcain, and especially his elder brother, Mathgamain, Brian first made himself King of Munster, then subjugated...

, High King of Ireland, and the ancestress of the Earls of Ormond.

Family and lineage

Margery de Burgh was born in Ireland, the eldest daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh

Richard Mor de Burgh

Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught , Justiciar of Ireland.-Background:De Burgh was the eldest son of William de Burgh and a daughter of Domnall Mór Ua Briain, King of Thomond. His principal estate was in the barony of Loughrea where he built a castle in 1236 and a town was founded. He also...

, Lord of Connacht and Justiciar of Ireland, and Egidia de Lacy

Egidia de Lacy

Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht , was a Hiberno-Norman noblewoman, the wife of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught and Strathearn , and the mother of his seven children, including Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster. She was also known as Gille de Lacy...

. She had three brothers and three sisters, including Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster

Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster

Walter de Burgh was 2nd Lord of Connaught and 1st Earl of Ulster .De Burgh was the second son of Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Lord of Connaught and Egidia de Lacy. He founded Athassel Priory....

 who married Aveline FitzJohn, by whom he had issue.

Margery's paternal grandparents were William de Burgh

William de Burgh

William de Burgh, founder of the de Burgh/Burke/Bourke family of Ireland, d. 1206.-In Ireland:He arrived in Ireland in 1185 and was closely associated with Prince John....

 and More O'Brien

O'Brien

The O'Brien dynasty are a royal and noble house founded in the 10th century by Brian Boru of the Dál gCais or Dalcassians. After becoming King of Munster, through conquest he established himself as High King of Ireland...

, a granddaughter of Dermot MacMurrough

Dermot MacMurrough

Diarmait Mac Murchada , anglicized as Dermot MacMurrough or Dermod MacMurrough , was a King of Leinster in Ireland. In 1167, he was deprived of his kingdom by the High King of Ireland - Turlough Mór O'Connor...

, and a descendant of Brian Boru. Her maternal grandparents were Walter de Lacy

Walter de Lacy

Walter de Lacy was Lord of Meath in Ireland and Ludlow in Shropshire in the Welsh Marches.- Life :With his father Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath he built Trim Castle , Trim, County Meath....

, Lord of Trim Castle

Trim Castle

Trim Castle , Trim, County Meath, Ireland, on the shores of the Boyne has an area of 30,000 m². It is the remains of Ireland's largest Anglo-Norman castle...

 in Meath and Ludlow Castle

Ludlow Castle

Ludlow Castle is a large, partly ruined, non-inhabited castle which dominates the town of Ludlow in Shropshire, England. It stands on a high point overlooking the River Teme...

 in Shropshire, and Margaret de Braose

Margaret de Braose

Margaret de Braose, Lady of Trim , was an Anglo-Welsh noblewoman, the daughter of Marcher Lord William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber and the legendary Maud de St. Valéry, who was left to starve to death by orders of King John of England. Margaret founded a religious house, the Hospital of St. John...

.

Marriage and issue

Sometime before 1242, Margery married Theobald Le Botiller

Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland

Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland was 6 years old when his father, Theobald died. His mother was Joan de Marisco, daughter of the Justiciar of Ireland, Geoffrey de Marisco....

 (1224–1248), the eldest son of Theobald le Botiller, chief Butler of Ireland and his first wife Joan du Marais.

Margery and Theobald had two recorded children:

• Theobald Le Botiller
  Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland
  Theobald Butler, 3rd Chief Butler of Ireland was 6 years old when his father, Theobald died. His mother was Joan de Marisco, daughter of the Justiciar of Ireland, Geoffrey de Marisco....
  
   (1242- 26 September 1285), who married, in 1268, Joan FitzJohn ( died 26 May 1303), daughter of John FitzGeoffrey
  John FitzGeoffrey
  John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere and Justiciar of Ireland was an English nobleman.John FitzGeoffrey was the son of Geoffrey Fitz Peter, 1st Earl of Essex and Aveline de Clare, daughter of Roger de Clare, 3rd Earl of Hertford and his wife Maud de Saint-Hilaire. He was Justiciar of Ireland...
  
  , Justiciar of Ireland, and Isabel Bigod
  Isabel Bigod
  Isabel Bigod, Lady of Shere was an English noblewoman, the only daughter of Hugh Bigod, 3rd Earl of Norfolk. She was the wife of Gilbert de Lacy, of Ewyas Lacy, and John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere.- Family :...
  
  . Joan was a younger sister of his uncle's wife, Aveline FitzJohn. The marriage produced issue, from whom descended the Earls of Ormond.
• Elizabeth Butler (Le Botiller)

Death

Margery's husband died in 1248. He was buried before 3 August 1248 at Arklow

Arklow

Arklow , also known as Inbhear Dé from the Avonmore river's older name Abhainn Dé, is a historic town located in County Wicklow on the east coast of Ireland. Founded by the Vikings in the ninth century, Arklow was the site of one of the bloodiest battles of the 1798 rebellion...

, Co. Limerick. On 27 April 1250, she made a fine to remarry.

Margery de Burgh died on an unrecorded date after 1 March 1253.