Hubert De Burgh, whose ancestry is unknown with certainty (though some
genealogists attempt to derive him from Herlouin de Conteville, and his
wife Arlette, mother of William the Conqueror), was probably _born_
about 1168-70, and created Justiciary of England, June 15, 1214. He was
also Lord Chancellor and Lord Chamberlain, with abundance of smaller
offices. He was created Earl of Kent, February 11, 1227. After all the
strange vicissitudes through which he had passed, it seems almost
surprising that he was allowed to die in his bed, at Banstead, May [4?],
1243, aged about 74, and surviving his daughter just two years.
[Character historical.] He married--
A. Margaret, daughter and heir of Robert de Arsic or Arsike: dates
unknown. (Hubert had previously been contracted, April 28, 1200, to
Joan, daughter of William de Vernon, Earl of Devon; but the marriage did
not take place.)
B. Beatrice, daughter and sole heir of William de Warenne of Wirmgay,
and widow of Dodo Bardolf: apparently _married_ after 1209, and _died_
in or about 1214.
C. Isabel, youngest daughter and co-heir of William Earl of Gloucester,
made Countess of Gloucester by King John, to the prejudice of her two
elder sisters: affianced by her father to John, Count of Mortaigne
[afterwards King John], at Windsor, September 28, 1176; married to him
at Salisbury, August 29, 1189: divorced on her husband's accession,
1200, on pretext of being within the prohibited degrees. She married
(2) Geoffrey de Mandeville, Earl of Essex, to whom she was sold by the
husband who had repudiated her, for the sum of twenty thousand marks, in
1213. In the wars of the Barons, she threw all her influence into the
scale against the King; but she showed that her enmity was personal, not
political, by at once returning to her allegiance on the accession of
Henry the Third. She was then given in _marriage_ (3) to Hubert de
Burgh, into whose hands the manor of Walden was delivered, as part of
her dower, August 13, 1217; the marriage probably took place shortly
before that date, and certainly before the 17th of September. Isabel
was Hubert's wife for so short a time, that some writers have doubted
the fact of the marriage altogether; but it is amply authenticated. She
was dead on the 18th of November following, as the Close Rolls bear
witness; and the Obituary of Canterbury Cathedral and the Chronicle of
Rochester agree in stating that she died October 14, 1217. She was
buried in Canterbury Cathedral.
D. Margaret, eldest daughter of William the First, King of Scotland,
surnamed The Lion; affianced, 1196, to Otho of Brunswick; commuted to
the care of King John of England in 1209; _married_ at York, June 25,
1221; _died_ 1259, leaving no surviving issue. [Character inferentially
historical.]
_Issue of Earl Hubert_.
A. _By Margaret Arsic_.
John, knighted Whit Sunday, 1229; _died_ 1274-75, leaving issue.
_Married_:--
Hawise, daughter and heir of Sir William de Lanvalay: _married_ before
November 21, 1234; _died_ 1249; _buried_ at Colchester. [Character
imaginary.]
2. _Hubert_, living 1281-82; ancestor of the Marquis of Clanricarde.
Whom he married is not known.