Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh
KG[Charles Mosley, editor, ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 587.] (; ; pronounced: ''Borough''; ''c.'' 1558–14 October 1597) 3rd Baron Borough of Gainsborough, ''de jure'' 7th
Baron Strabolgi
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and 9th
Baron Cobham
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of
Sterborough was the son of
William Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh and Lady Katherine Clinton, daughter of
Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln and
Elizabeth Blount
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, former mistress of
King Henry VIII.
He was one of the peers who conducted the trial of the
Duke of Norfolk
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in 1572. (aged 14?)
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Sir Thomas Burgh succeeded to the title of 3rd Lord Burgh ., 1529on 10 September 1584, by writ. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter
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on 23 April 1593.
In February 1593, he was appointed as English Ambassador to Scotland. Burgh was met by Lord Seton
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and banqueted at Seton Palace. James VI of Scotland was in the north and Burgh had to wait in Edinburgh until 14 March when he saw the king and discussed the risks of a Spanish invasion. On 18 March he had an audience with Anne of Denmark
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and received "ill grace both of words and looks". Burgh and the resident diplomat Robert Bowes borrowed £300 sterling from three Edinburgh merchants, Robert Jousie
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Jousie was a cloth merchant based in Edinburgh with a house on the High Street or Royal Mile. He became an exclusive supplier of fa ...
, Thomas Foulis
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, and John Porterfield in order to reward potential supporters of English policy.
On 18 April 1597, he was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland but held the office only briefly, dying the same year.
Burgh married Frances Vaughan, the only daughter of John Vaughan of Sutton-on-Derwent, Yorkshire, by Anne Pickering, daughter and heir of Sir Christopher Pickering, by whom he had a son and four daughters:
* Robert Burgh, 4th Baron Burgh (c.1594 – 26 February 1602), buried at Winchester Cathedral
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19 March 1602.
*Elizabeth Burgh, married George Brooke, a younger son of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham
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, and had issue. She married secondly John Byrd of Broxton and had issue. She married thirdly Francis Reade, 2nd son of Sir William Reade, of Osterley, Middlesex. There were no issue of her third marriage.
* Anne Burgh (died after 1 June 1641), who married Sir Drew Drury on 11 October 1604.
*Frances Burgh (died before 24 Nov 1618), who married Francis Coppinger.
* Katherine Burgh (died April 1646), who married, on 28 February 1620, Thomas Knyvett, son of Sir Thomas Knyvett and Elizabeth Bacon and had issue.
Burgh died at Newry
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, County Down, Ireland, on 14 October 1597.
In November 1613 his widow Frances, Lady Burgh, was given an allowance of £500 and went to join the household of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia
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at Heidelberg
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.
On the death of Burgh's son, Robert, his baronies of Burgh, Strabolgi, and Cobham of Sterborough fell into abeyance between his sisters. 314 years later, on 5 May 1916, the abeyance was terminated in favour of Alexander Henry Leith, 5th Baron Burgh (1866–1926).
Baron Burgh at Cracroft's Peerage.
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Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent
Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (; ; ; c.1170 – before 5 May 1243) was an English nobleman who served as Chief Justiciar of England and Ireland during the reigns of King John and of his son and successor King Henry III and, as a consequenc ...
(c.1170–1243) English nobleman and ancestor of the Burghs of Gainsborough
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