General Notes

Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 1st Baron of Offaly (not a peerage of Parliament but a designation of the ancestors of the Earls of Kildare); c1150; took part in the conquest of Limerick c1197 and acquired Croom in that Co (hence the wording of the family motto); married c1193 Eve (married 2nd Geoffrey FitzRobert (d 1211) and 3rd by Feb 1217/8 Geoffrey de Marisco/Mareis, Justiciar of Ireland, and died by Dec 1226), thought to have been daughter of Robert de Bermingham, by which marriage he acquired the territorial Barony of Offaly (an entity wholly distinct from Ophelan aforementioned), though Offaly was in his wife's 3rd husband Geoffrey de Marisco's hands following her death (it was forfeited by Geoffrey in 1234, however, and passed to Gerald's heir); Gerald died 1245.  [Burke's Peerage]