Geoffrey de Burgh

Geoffrey de Burgh was the younger brother of William de Burgh, Lord of Connacht, Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, and Thomas de Burgh, Castellan of Norwich.Karn "Burgh, Geoffrey de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography He was born no later than 1180 or so (based on his appointment as archdeacon in 1200). The name of his father is not known, but his mother's name was Alice and the family were from Norfolk, being of knightly status. The name is likely in reference to either Burgh next Aylsham or Burgh Castle.

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Geoffrey was Canon of Salisbury Cathedral and Treasurer of the Exchequer before being named Archdeacon of Norwich (1200).Greenway [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33869 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Norwich: Archdeacons of Norwich] He was elected to the see of Ely (1215), but the election was quashed by Pope Honorius III before May 1219 due to a competing election with Robert of York.Greenway [http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33863 Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300: Volume 2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces): Ely: Bishops] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214055546/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33863 |date=14 February 2012 }} The pope quashed both elections, and ordered a new election: the monks chose the Cistercian John (Abbot of Fountains Abbey).

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Geoffrey was once more elected to Ely (June 1225). He owed his election to his brother, Hubert (who was Justiciar of England at the time). He was consecrated Bishop of Ely (29 June 1225) and died three years later (between 8 December and 17 December 1228).Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 244 He was buried in Ely Cathedral in the north choir, though there is no surviving tomb or monument.Sayers "Once 'Proud Prelate'" Journal of the British Archaeological Association p. 77 Besides his brothers, he also had a nephew, Thomas Blunville, who Hubert had elected to the see of Norwich in 1226.

Roger of Wendover told the story of a Geoffrey, Archdeacon of Norwich, who was a victim of King John of England's cruelty: Geoffrey was thrown into prison and fitted with a lead cloak and starved to death. However, this cannot be Geoffrey de Burgh since the bishop died many years after John's death. The historian Sidney Painter suggested that the real victim may have been another Geoffrey of Norwich, known to be a justice of the Jews.Poole Domesday Book to Magna Carta p. 427 footnote 1

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• House of Burgh, an Anglo-Norman and Hiberno-Norman dynasty founded in 1193

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• {{cite book |author1=Fryde, E. B. |author2=Greenway, D. E. |author3=Porter, S. |author4=Roy, I. |title=Handbook of British Chronology|edition=Third revised |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=1996 |isbn=0-521-56350-X }}
• {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |section=Ely: Bishops |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300|volume=2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces)|section-url=http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33863 |access-date=25 October 2007 |year=1971 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120214055546/http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33863 |archive-date=14 February 2012 }}
• {{cite book |author=Greenway, Diana E. |author-mask=2 |section=Norwich: Archdeacons of Norwich |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066–1300|volume=2: Monastic Cathedrals (Northern and Southern Provinces)|section-url= http://british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=33869 |access-date= 25 October 2007 |year=1971 |publisher=Institute of Historical Research }}
• {{cite ODNB |author= Karn, Nicholas |title=Burgh, Geoffrey de |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/95140}}
• {{cite book |author=Poole, Austin Lane|author-link=Austin Lane Poole |title=From Domesday Book to Magna Carta, 1087–1216 |publisher=Clarendon Press |location=Oxford, UK |year=1955 |edition=Second |isbn=0-19-821707-2 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Sayers, Jane |title=A Once Proud Prelate: An Unidentified Episcopal Monument in Ely Cathedral |journal = Journal of the British Archaeological Association |volume=162 |year=2009 |pages=67–87 |doi= 10.1179/006812809x12448232842376}}

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