Gerald FitzMaurice , 1st Baron of Offaly 
Gerald was born about 1150 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. Gerald's father was Maurice FitzGerald , Keeper of Dublin and his mother was Alice de Montgomery. His paternal grandparents were Gerald of Windsor , Constable of Pembroke Castle and Nest verch Rhys , Heiress of Carew; his maternal grandparents were Arnulph de Montgomery and Lafracoth O'Brien. He had a brother named Thomas FitzMaurice. He was the older of the two children. He died in 1245 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland.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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1070 in Windsor, Berkshire, England d.< 1136
- b.~ 1100 in Castle Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.01 Sep 1176 in Wexford, Kildare, Ireland
- b.1073 in Deheubarth, Wales
- b.~ 1150 in Windsor, Berkshire, England d.1245 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1058 in Pembroke, Dyfed, Wales d.~ 1126 in France (exiled in 1102)
- b.1115 in Munster, Ireland
- b.1076 in Munster, Ireland
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‌Gerald and Eve de were married in a religious ceremony about 1193 in 1st husband. They had a son named Maurice.
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Children
Maurice FitzGerald , 2nd Baron of Offaly
Maurice was born about 1190 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland (Justiciar of Ireland). He died in 1257 in As a Friar at Franciscan Friary at Youghal, Ireland.
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