General Notes

REFN: 6608AN
Younger son of Maurice FitzGerald de Windsor
Orpen writes:
"When dealing with the primary infeudation of the present county of Limeri
ck, we saw that three of the sons of the first Maurice FitzGerald obtain
ed lands there. These in order of birth were William, Baron of Nass, who o
btained Carrickittle in the barony of Small County, Gerald, Baron of Offal
y, who obtained Croom in the valley of the Maigue, and Thomas, who obtain
ed Shanid, 'the most ancient house' of his successors, the earls of Desmon
d, in Connello."
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Cokayne's Complete Peerage in Dave's Database.
Dave's Database. Utzinger, Dave, Rootsweb's WorldConnect, World Wide We
b: Available: [Online]: (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?
db=utzing) [30 August 2002].
GERALD FITZMAURICE FlTZGERALD, first baron of Offaly of this family, was p
robably eldest son [no says Mrs. Richardson] of his father's (presumed) 2
nd marriage, and was born possibly as late as 1150. He was with his fath
er at the siege of Dublin in 1171. After their father's death his elder br
other William gave him half the cantred of Ophelan, which had been grant
ed to Maurice. Gerald received a protection upon the accession of King Joh
n, He married Eve, presumabiy daughter of Robert de Birmingham who broug
ht him in marriage the barony of Offaly, and he thus became the first of t
he FitzGeralds to be known as "baron of Offaly." He died shortly befo
re 15 January 1203/4. His widow married, 2ndly, Geoffrey FITZROBERT, who d
ied in 1211; and, 3rdly, in or before February 1217/8, Geoffrey DE MARSH (
de Marisco), sometime justiciar of Ireland, who held Offaly after her deat
h. She was living in June 1223, but died before December 1226. He di
ed in exile in 1245. [CP 10:13],
Eldest son of Maurice Fitzgerald; served in the King's expedition to Poit
ou 1242; died before his father.
[GERALD FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD, son and heir apparent, born circa 122
0. He joined Henry's unsuccessful expedition to Poitou in 1242, and is sa
id by the chroniclers to have died v.p. in Gascony, in 1243.] [CP 10:16
], , ,
Text: -10:16