ABSTRACT
Lionel of Clarence (b. Antwerp, 1338; d. Alba in Italy, 1368), earl of Ulster, lord of Connacht, duke of Clarence. Lionel was the third son of King Edward III and inherited enormous lands in Ireland through his marriage to Elizabeth de Burgh, heiress of William de Burgh (d. 1333), the “Brown Earl” of Ulster. In 1360, a break in the war between France and England enabled Edward III to assent to requests from Ireland for a royal prince to be sent to remedy the “utter devastation, ruin and misery” of the lordship of Ireland.
