MAURICE, Baron Maurice Fitz

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• Name	MAURICE, Maurice Fitz
  Prefix	Baron
  Born	Abt 1250	Wexford, Ireland
  Gender	Male
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  Died	1286	Ross, Hertsfordshire, England
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  Person ID	I28474	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	FITZGERALD, Baron Maurice ,   b. 1190, Offaly, Kildare, Ireland ,   d. 20 May 1257, Youghal, Cork, Ireland  (Age 67 years)
  Mother	COGAN, Juliana de ,   b. 1190, Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales ,   d. 1265, Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland  (Age 75 years)
  Married	1227
  Family ID	F15891	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LONGESPEE, Emmeline ,   b. Abt 1250, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ,   d. 19 May 1331  (Age ~ 81 years)
  Married	1266	Ireland
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 1259
  Children	+ 1. FITZ-MAURICE, Lady Juliane ,   b. 1267, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ,   d. 24 Sep 1300, Thomond, Connaght, Clare, Ireland  (Age 33 years)   2. FITZ-MAURICE, Baron Gerald ,   b. Abt 1269, Ireland   3. FITZ-MAURICE, Amabilia ,   b. Abt 1270, Ireland   4. FITZ-MAURICE, Lord Maurice ,   b. 1238, Wexford, Wexford, Ireland ,   d. 2 Sep 1277, Ross, Wexford, Ireland  (Age 39 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022
  Family ID	F15890	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  --Other Fields Ref Number: 2487 Maurice, the youngest son, was appointed L. J. of Ireland, on the death of Sir James Sudley, 23 Jun 1272, and the year after subdued the whole country of Thomond, taking hostages of the O Briens; he also took Richard, after Earl of Ulster, the L. J. Rupella and others, prisoners at Castle Dermot; and in 1277, his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, slew O Brien Roe, King of Thomond, then in rebellion; to revenge whose death, the Irish committed many outrages; destroyed the Castles of Aldleck, Roscommon, Sligo, and Randon; and by corrupting some of his follows, he was betrayed to them in Offaley, and imprisoned until he gave hostages, and bound himself to yield up the Castle of Roscommon, and make satisfaction for the death of O Brien and his followers.---He died at Ross in 1286, leaving Gerald Fitz-Maurice Oge, who died of illnesses the same year at Rathmore; and a daughter, Juliana or Emma, who married in 1276 the Lord Thomas de Clare, younger son of Richard, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford. Ibid Cont...pg 8-9: Which Sir Gerald Fitz-Maurice, Lord Offaley, in 1620, finished the Franciscan Friery of Minorities in Kildare (begun by Lord William de Vescy) and in 1271 founded that of Clane in the County of Kildare.--He died at Rathmore 20 July 1286; was buried in the said Friery of Kildare, and having married Emelina, Daughter of Stephen de Longue-Espee by her, who died in 1291, had Thomas Fitz-Gerald his Successor. (Note: He died L. J. of Ireland 1260; his wife (or mother) was Emeline, daughter and heir to the Lord Walter de Fidleford, Baron of Brey, to whom King John gave the Lordships of O Murthy and Imayle, in which stands Castledermot, being before the Estate of O Toole, which by this marriage accrued to the family of Kildare.) He founded the Franciscan Friery at Castledemot; and the Crutched Friery at Adar, for the Redemption of Captives imprisoned by pagans, in the Reign of Edward I.--He married Rohesia (Rofe) Daughter to Richard de St. Michael, Lord of Rheban, by whom he is made the Father of John, created Earl of Kildare; and of Robert, ancestor to the family of Mac-Thomas of Leinster.--But I shall declaine a positive determination of the descent in this point, viz. Whether John, the first Earl of Kildare, was the son of this Thomas, as asserted in divers pedigrees of the family, or of Thomas Simiacus, as mentioned in the Earl of Kildares. "Maurice fitzgerald, think tenant of Baggotrath 1255, Justiciar of Ireland 1272." SURNAME: Also shown as Fitzmaurice GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Maurice BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 1240 DEATH: Also shown as Died , Roscommon, Ireland. ~ENDOWMENT: Also shown as Endowed 27 Jul 1974, PROVO.