Editing Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent (section)

==Regent to Henry III==
[[File:Rochester Castle Keep and Bailey 0038stcpcropped.png|thumbnail|left|The [[keep]] and [[Bailey (castle)|bailey]] of Rochester Castle|190x190px]]
When Henry III came of age in 1227 Hubert de Burgh was appointed [[Governor of Rochester Castle]], lord of [[Montgomery Castle]] in the Welsh Marches, and created [[Earl of Kent]]. He remained one of the most influential people at court. On 27 April 1228, he was named [[Justiciar]] for life.<ref name="Powicke"/> He was appointed [[Chief governor of Ireland|Justiciar of Ireland]] on 16 June 1232 but never visited Ireland and he retired from this post in August 1232.<ref>{{Cite book |title=A New History of Ireland |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1989 |isbn=978-0-19-959306-4 |editor-last=Moody |editor-first=T. W. |volume=IX: Maps, Genealogies, Lists: A Companion to Irish History, Part II |location=Oxford |pages=471, 481 |language=en |editor-last2=Martin |editor-first2=F. X. |editor-last3=Byrne |editor-first3=F. J.}}</ref>

However, in 1232, his enemies' plots finally succeeded and he was removed from office and was soon imprisoned at [[Devizes Castle]]. When [[Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke]] rebelled against the king in 1233, the men holding Hubert de Burgh captive released him and he subsequently joined the rebellion.<ref name="West"/> In 1234, [[Edmund Rich]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], effected a reconciliation. Hubert officially resigned the Justiciarship (about 28 May 1234) and no longer exercised the power of the office after September 1232.<ref name="Powicke"/> This judgment was reversed by [[William de Raley]] (alias Raleigh) in 1234, which, for a time, restored the earldom.<ref>{{harvnb|Plucknett|1956|p=170}}</ref>