Edward Burgh (knight)

For others of this name, see Edward Burgh (disambiguation).

Sir Edward Burgh
Justice of the Peace
Bornc. 1508
Diedbefore April 1533
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, England
BuriedGainsborough, Lincolnshire
Noble familyBurke
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1529)​
FatherThomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh
MotherAgnes Tyrwhitt

Sir Edward Burgh (pronounced "Borough"; died before April 1533)[1][2][3][4] was the eldest son and heir to Sir Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh and his wife Agnes Tyrwhit. He is known for being the first husband of Catherine Parr,[1][2][3][4][5] later queen of England. 18th-century historians have mistaken him for his grandfather, the elderly, Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh.[6]

  1. ^ a b Linda Porter. Katherine, the Queen. Macmillan. 2010.
  2. ^ a b James, Susan E. Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love Gloucestershire, England: The History Press 2009. pg. 60–63.
  3. ^ a b David Starkey. Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII. HarperCollins, 2004. pg 697.
  4. ^ a b Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Company, 2005. pg 838.
  5. ^ Stanley T. Bindoff, and others. The House of Commons: 1509 – 1558; 1, Appendices, constituencies, members A – C, Volume 4, pp. 6, 648.
  6. ^ Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII; I, i, no. 563 (10).