Blanche de la Roche 
Blanche de was born about 1257 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland. Blanche de's father was John de la Roche , Lord of Fermoy and her mother was Maud le Waleys. Her paternal grandfather was David de la Roche. She had a brother named Thomas 1st Baron de. She was the younger of the two children. She died after 1327.General Notes
He [John FitzThomas FitzGerald] married Blanche, daughter of John ROCHE, baron of Fermoy. He died 12 September 1316, at Laraghbryan, near Maynooth, and was buried in the Church of the Friars Minor at Kildare. His widow received dower from. her son Thomas in 1316/7. She was living in February 1329/30, when as Blanche de Roche [Rupe], Countess of Kildare, she received an acquittance of all claims from Stephen de Aqua. [Complete Peerage VII:218-21, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1130 in Rhos, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.1160 in Rhos, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1190 in Roche Castle, Roch, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1165 in England
- b.~ 1220 in Roche Castle, Roch, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1252 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
- b.~ 1257 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland d.> 1327
- b.~ 1224 in Manor of Eglwys Cwmmin, Wales
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Children
Thomas FitzGerald , 2nd Earl of Kildare
Thomas was born about 1290 in Castletown, Kildrought, Kildare, Ireland. He died on April 9th, 1328 in Friar's Minor Church, Kildare, Ireland.
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