Richard de Burgh was the son of Walter de Burgh and Maud de Lacy and was educated at the court of Henry III. He was known as the 'Red Earl', 2nd Earl of Ulster, and was successful in his campaigns against the Scots, whereby he was made general of the Irish forces. He founded many monasteries, one of them in Greencastle, County Down. He feasted the Anglo-Norman knights and then confined himself to a monastery, where he died the same

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