Gearoid Larla Fitzgerald 
Gearoid Larla was born about 1336. Gearoid Larla's father was Maurice Fitzgerald and his mother is Aneline Fitzmaurice. His paternal grandfather was Thomas Simiacus Fitzgerald and his paternal grandmother is Margaret De Berkeley. He had two brothers named Nicholas and John. He was the oldest of the three children. He had a half-brother named Maurice. He died in 1398 in Disappeared.General Notes
"Brother (or half brother depending other sources) of the preceding earl, his brother Nicholas, mentally defective, he was surnamed "Gerald the Poet", succeeded to the estates and honours of the family.
He married, by the Kings command, Eleanor, daughter of James, 2nd Earl of Ormond, who gave her for portion the barony of Inchiquin in Imokelly. Gerald was Lord Justice of Ireland, 1367.
In 1398 he disappeared, and is fabled to live beneath the waters of Lough Gur, near Kilmallock, on whose banks he appears once every seven years.
O'Donovan quotes the following concerning his character: "A nobleman of wondeful bountie, mirth, cheerfulness in conversation, charitable in his deeds, easy of access, a witty and ingenious composer of Irish poetry, and a learned and profound chronicler; and, in fine, one of the English nobility that had Irish learning and professors thereof in greatest reverence of all the English in Ireland, died penintently after receipt of the sacraments of the holy church in proper form." Fragments of Anglo-Norman verse attributed to him, known as "Proverbs of the Earl of Desmond," survive. - From Alfred Webb, A Compendium of Irish Biography (Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son 1878), p.137.
Editors note: He was the first person of Norman ancestry known to have composed poetry in Irish. Thirty of his poems may be found in the Book of Fermoy. His poem "Mairg adeir olc ris na mnáibh" (translated as "In Defence of Women" may be found in the Book of the Dean of Lismore. Both Richard Berleth (The Twilight Lords) and Anne Chambers (Eleanor, Countess of Desmond) mistakenly attribute this poem to Gerald, the 15th Earl. -
CITES: Four Masters, Annals of Ireland by the. Translated and edited by John O'Donovan. 7 vols. Dublin, 1856. other sources said : Joan married Maurice FitzJohn 6th Lord of Kerry (which is inconsistent with Brian Tompsett), and Catherine, married John FitzThomas ancestor of the McThomases of Knockmone (not verified in MacThomeses files)
Sources: - person, family: Renaud de Paysac
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LDS Individual Record CD # 67 Pin # 504547(
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"Descendants of Margaret de Audley" http://www.geneastar.org.
"Ancestors/Descendants of James Butler", http://www.geneastar.org.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1145 in Wexford, Kildare, Ireland d.1213 in Shanid, Connelo, Ireland
- b.~ 1188 in Ireland d.23 Jul 1261 in Battle of Callan in Desmond, by his son-in-law, Fineen MacCarthy Mor
- b.~ 1150 in Shanid, Ireland d.1213
- b.~ 1220 d.1261 in Battle of Callan in Desmond, with his father
- b.~ 1190
- b.Apr 1261 d.04 Jun 1298 in Knockainy, Limerick
- b.< 1201 d.1261 in Battle of Callan in Desmond
- b.~ 1225 in Ireland d.1278
- b.~ 1245
- b.1293 d.25 Jan 1356 in Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
- b.~ 1220 d.04 Apr 1281
- b.1245 d.1321
- b.~ 1190 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England\Alternate POB given. d.<24 Jun 1246
- b.~ 1225 d.07 Jul 1276
- b.~ 1205 in Chilham, Kent, England d.<11 Feb 1261
- b.~ 1272
- b.~ 1170 in Ferrars, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.~ 1195 in Derbyshire, England d.24 Mar 1253 in Evrington, Leicestershire, England
- b.~ 1177 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.~ 1248
- b.~ 1184 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in England
- b.~ 1221 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.<12 Mar 1284
- b.1208 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1336 d.1398 in Disappeared
- b.~ 1310
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Gearoid Larla and Eleanor Le were married in a religious ceremony after July 20th, 1359. They had a son and three daughters, named James, Katherine, Ellice and Amy.
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Children
James Fitzgerald
James was born about 1380. He died in Mocollop Castle. He was buried in South Abbey at Youghal.
