Keeper Of Dublin Maurice Fitzgerald Keeper Of Dublin 
Maurice was born about 1100 in Castle Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Maurice's father was Constable Of Pembroke Castle Gerald Of Gerald Constable Of Pembroke Castle/Windsor and his mother was Heiress Of Carew Nesta Verch Rhys Heiress Of Carew. His paternal grandparents were (Keeper/Forest) Walter Fitzotho Castellan De Walter (Keeper/Forest)/Windsor and Beatrice De Offlay; his maternal grandparents were King Of Deheubarth Rhys Ap Rhys Ap Tudor King Of Deheubarth/Tewdwr and Gwladus Verch Rhiwallon. He had two brothers and four sisters, named William, David (Bishop Of St. Davids), Hadewise De, Agnes Fitzgerald, Miss De and Angharad. He had a half-brother and a half-sister, named Henry and Maud Princess Of. He died after September 1st, 1176 in Wexford, Kildare, Ireland. He was buried in Abbey Grey Friar, Welford, Berkshire, England.General Notes
Maurice Fitz Gerald; feudal Lord of Llanstephan, Wales, by inheritance; in 1167 Dermot MacMurrogh, King of Leinster, who had been deprived of his kingdom by Roderick O'Connor, King of Connaught and High King of Ireland, pledged Wexford to Maurice and his half brother Robert Fitz Stephen if they would help restore him; Maurice accordingly went to Ireland in 1169 and not only secured Wexford but, in concert with Dermot, took Dublin, from which Roderick failed to dislodge him in 1171, by which time Dermot had died; Henry II subsequently went to Ireland and made Maurice Jt Keeper of Dublin, granting him also the middle cantred (akin to a hundred, or subdivision of a county) of Ophelan in Co Kildare (approximately that part of the county centered on Naas) and that of Co Wicklow between Bray and Arklow. [Burke's Peerage]
AFN: 9NH7-HR
Was one of the soldiers of fortune who accompanied Strongbow onto Ireland in 1168. He died in the year 1188 and was buried in the Abbey of Grey Friers, at Wexford. he had five sons and a daughter.
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- b.1037 in Stanwell, Staines, Middlesex, England d.> 1099 in Domesday Tenant In Buckingham, Hampshire, Middlesex & Surrey
- b.1070 in Windsor, Berkshire, England d.< 1136
- b.~ 1041 d.Unknown
- b.~ 1100 in Castle Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.>01 Sep 1176 in Wexford, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1035 in Deheaubarth, Wales d.1093 in Killed Fighting Norman English In Brycheiniog, Wales
- b.1073 in Deheaubarth, Wales d.< 1136
- b.~ 1051 in Powys, Wales d.Unknown
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