Maurice Fitzgerald 
Maurice was born in 1293. Maurice's father was Thomas Simiacus Fitzgerald and his mother is Margaret De Berkeley. His paternal grandfather was Maurice I Fitzgerald and his paternal grandmother is Matilda Maud De Barry; his maternal grandfather was Thomas De+ Berkeley and his maternal grandmother is Joan II De+ Ferrers. He had a brother named John. He was the younger of the two children. He died at the age of 63 on January 25th, 1356 in Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland. He was buried in Tralee Friary, Kerry.General Notes
"The sources dispute who is Maurice's mother (see discussion in CP vol.IV,p.236,note a. Margaret de Barry, John, Lord Barry's daughter is the other one.
Par ailleur 'The Geraldines' indique Eleanor FitzMaurice comme mère de Gerald le Poëte et de son frère Nicholas, au lieu d'Aneline FitzMaurice (Brian Tompsett)
Called "Maurice the Great," appears to have taken the rightful place of his elder brother who died young. He was Lord-Justice of Ireland, had livery of Decies and Desmond in 1312, of Kerry in 1315, and was created Earl of Desmond 22nd August 1329.
and received a grant of the County Palatine of Kerry, with royal liberties theirin to be held of the English Crown At the same time he received the grant of advowson of Dungarvan
He married at Greencastle, 16th August 1312, Margaret, fifth daughter of Richard de Burgh (the Red Earl of Ulster), who died 1331; and secondly Aveline, or Ellinor, daughter of Nicholas FitzMaurice, 3rd Lord of Kerry and Lixnaw.
He took an active part in the war against Bruce in Scotland. In contest with the O'Nolans and O'Murroughs in 1330 he first introduced the practice of coigne and livery, or quartering soldiers on the inhabitants of the district they were sent to protect.
About this time the Anglo-Normans began to adopt Irish customs and names and throw off English authority. Their estrangement was hastened by an Act of the English Parliament under Edward III, confining offices in Ireland to those who had estates in England, which irritated the Anglo-Norman party, and Desmond and others called a counter parliament at Kilkenny. Ufford, the Lord-Justice, marched against them, seized Desmond's estates, and threw him into prison. After Ufford's death, Desmond made his peace, attended Edward III, to the French war with twenty men-at-arms and fifty hobellars, and had his estates restored to him.
"In consequence of his having been insultingly termed "rhymer" by Baron Arnold le Poer, at a public assembly, this Maurice embarked in a fierce intestine strife, the nobles of Ireland banding themselves on the opposite sides. Such ravages were committed that the towns were obliged to provide garrisons for their own protection, and royal writs were issued from England ordering the Le Poers and Geraldines to desist from levying forces for the purpose of attacking each other; but to little purpose."
CITES: Geraldine Documents. Edited by Rev. James Graves in Journal of the Archaeological Association of Ireland, October, 1869
CITES: The Complete Peerage vol.IV,pp.237-240 as corrected by vol.XIV,p.255
Sources: - person, family 1, family 2, family 3: Renaud de Paysac
SOURCES: "Descendants of Margaret de Audley" http://www.geneastar.org.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1100 in Windsor, England d.11 Sep 1177 in Abbey Grey Friar, Welford, Berkshire, England
- b.~ 1145 in Wexford, Kildare, Ireland d.1213 in Shanid, Connelo, Ireland
- b.1113 in Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1188 in Ireland d.23 Jul 1261 in Battle of Callan in Desmond, by his son-in-law, Fineen MacCarthy Mor
- b.~ 1118
- 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.1137 in Wales d.~ 1200
- b.< 1201 d.1261 in Battle of Callan in Desmond
- b.~ 1155
- 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.24 Dec 1166 in Beaumont Palace (Kings Manor House), Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1190 in Chilham Castle, Kent, England\Alternate POB given. d.<24 Jun 1246
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Nottinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1225 d.07 Jul 1276
- b.~ 1161 in Chilham, Kent, England
- b.~ 1205 in Chilham, Kent, England d.<11 Feb 1261
- b.~ 1184 in Stoke, Devonshire, England d.1233
- b.~ 1272
- b.~ 1140 in Oakham, Rutlandshire, England d.<21 Oct 1190 in Seige of Acre, Jerusalem, Palestine
- b.~ 1170 in Ferrars, Derbyshire, England d.22 Sep 1247
- b.~ 1150 in Bramber, Sussex, England d.>Feb 1227 in England
- b.~ 1195 in Derbyshire, England d.24 Mar 1253 in Evrington, Leicestershire, England
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Merionethshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leek, Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1177 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England d.02 Nov 1247
- b.~ 1158 in Chester, England d.12 Jul 1189 in Evreux, Eure, France
- b.~ 1248
- b.1155 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.03 Nov 1219 in Damietta, on the way to the Holy Land, Palestine
- b.~ 1184 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.25 Apr 1264 in England
- b.~ 1159 in Hampshire, England d.12 Jan 1236
- b.~ 1221 in Winchester, Hampshire, England d.<12 Mar 1284
- b.~ 1186 in Galloway, Wigtownshire, Scotland d.1234
- b.1208 in Carrick, Ayrshire, Scotland d.>21 Nov 1245 in England
- b.~ 1192 in England or Ireland
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Maurice and Catherine De were married in a religious ceremony on August 5th, 1312 in Green Castle, County Down, Ireland. They had a son named Maurice.
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Children
Maurice Fitzgerald
Maurice was born on July 12th, 1336 in Newcastle, Connello, Limerick. He died in Drowned crossing the Irish Sea.