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Female Joan "Cam" FitzGerald Click to view Joan "Cam" FitzGerald in the family tree

Joan "Cam" was born in  1435 in Desmond, Kerry, Ireland.  Joan "Cam"'s father was James "The Usurper" FitzGerald , 7th Earl Desmond and her mother was Mary de Burgh.  Her paternal grandparents were Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald , 3rd Earl Desmond and Eleanor Butler; her maternal grandfather was William (Uilleag\Ulick) an Fhiona de Burgh and her maternal grandmother is Egelina de Courtenay.  She was an only child.  She died at the age of 51 on June 13th, 1486 in Monastery of Adare, Limerick, Ireland.1 


Joan "Cam"'s family with Thomas FitzGerald , 7th Earl of Kildare

‌Joan "Cam" and Thomas were married in a religious ceremony in dispensation to marry anew.2   They had a son named Gerald.

1 Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999 @ 1679
2 Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne,  Sutton Publishing Lt @ VII:229
3 Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland Great Britain and the United Kingdom, by G. E Cokayne,  Sutton Publishing Lt @ VII:229-32

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