Elizabeth de Burghersh, 3rd Baroness Burghersh


Elizabeth Despencer, 3rd Baroness Burghersh was an English noblewoman born to Bartholomew de Burghersh, 2nd Baron Burghersh and Cicely Weyland.
Some recently constructed genealogies purport that she was first married, some time after 1347, to Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare and by him had at least four children. Yet it is more consistent with known dates of death of the 4th Earl of Kildare that he married instead Margaret, a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghersh. Otherwise there would be record of Kildare's divorce from Elizabeth and probably a mention in the original records of her 'remarriage' rather than of her 'marriage' to le Despencer.
But these 'recently constructed genealogies' appear to be incorrect. It is impossible that Elizabeth, wife of Maurice FitzGerald is the lady who remarried 2ndly Edward le Despencer. The reason is that Maurice died on 25th August 1390, well before Edward le Despencer's marriage. This makes it more certain that le Despencer married Elizabeth, daughter of Bartholomew de Burghersh the younger, 2nd Baron Burghersh.
She was married some time before 1373, to Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer and they had six children. Upon the death of her father on 5 April 1369, she inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh.

Children

By Maurice FitzGerald:
By Edward le Despencer:
married
John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel
William la Zouche, 3rd Baron Zouche
married
Hugh Hastings
Thomas de Morley, 4th Baron Morley