Edward Burgh

Edward Burgh, 2nd Baron Burgh of Gainsborough ( ; – 20 August 1528), de jure 4th Baron Strabolgi, was an English peer.

Life Edward Burgh was born in 1461 to Sir Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh in Lincolnshire, and Margaret de Ros. He was knighted at Stoke Field in 1487. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Burgh, of Gainsborough [E., 1487] on the death of his father in 1495, although he was never called to Parliament under this writ. In 1510, he was found to be a lunatic, and as such, was never called to Parliament.

Marriage His first marriage, at the age of 13, was to the 9 year old heiress, Anne Cobham (daughter of Sir Thomas, de jure 5th Baron Cobham of Sterborough and Lady Anne Stafford) who had been "affianced" to the recently deceased Edward Blount, 2nd Baron Mountjoy: she brought him ownership of Sterborough Castle. Anne Cobham succeeded to the title of 6th Baroness Cobham de jure in 1471. They had two known children: Thomas and Sir Henry Burgh.

It had been thought that the 2nd Baron married Catherine Parr, who went on to become the sixth wife of Henry VIII, in 1529, when she was aged 17, but the 2nd Baron died in August 1528. It is now accepted through recent research of documents and the will of Catherine Parr's mother by biographers Susan E. James, Linda Porter, and David Starkey that she married the 2nd Baron's grandson, who shared his first name. Sir Edward Burgh was the eldest son of the 2nd Baron's eldest son, Sir Thomas Burgh, who would become the 1st Baron by a new creation in 1529.

Death and succession On the death of the 2nd Baron in 1528, his title passed to his eldest son Sir Thomas Burgh who was created and summoned to Parliament as 1st Lord Burgh of Gainsborough [England by writ] on 2 December 1529. In 1529, Edward's other son, Henry, married Katherine Neville, daughter of Sir Ralph Neville and Anne Warde. 9= 9. Elizabeth de la Pole 12= 12. William de Ros, 6th Baron de Ros 13= 13. Margaret FitzAlan 14= 14. Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick 15= 15. Elizabeth de Berkeley, Countess of Warwick 16= 16. Sir William Burgh 18= 18. John de la Pole 19= 19. Katherine Corbet 20= 20. Sir Thomas Percy of Northumberland 21= 21. Elizabeth of Atholl Strathbogie 24= 24. Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros 25= 25. Beatrice Stafford 26= 26. John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel 27= 27. Eleanor Maltravers, 2nd Baroness Maltravers 28= 28. Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick 29= 29. Margaret Ferrers 30= 30. Thomas de Berkeley, 5th Baron Berkeley 31= 31. Margaret de Lisle, 3rd Baroness Lisle