General Notes

REFN: 6659AN
Alias:<ALIA> The /Invader/
REFN: P3411
Castellan of Llanstephen and steward of St. David's
1st wife Unknown
2nd wife Alice De Montgomery
One of the conquerors of Ireland.
Maurice, went into Ireland with Earl Strongbow and died there, of whom t
he Geraldines Earls of Kildare are descended. Derwent Mac Morrough gave h
im Wexford town and Henry II. took it away.
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].
Lord of Lanstephen, Wales; His brother, Bishop David, granted him the Stew
ardship of St. Davids hereditarily. Under Stephen [between 1136 and 114
6] the sons of Gerald were hard pressed by the Welsh in their effort to di
slodge the Norman interlopers from the lands they had seized. The occasi
on of Maurice's going to Ireland, where he and his descendants were to flo
urish so exceedingly, was the promise, in 1167, of Dermot MacMurrough, t
he dispossessed King of Leinster, to give Wexford to him and to his half-b
rother, Robert FitzStephen, if they would help him to regain the kingdom-
-a promise which he duly honoured. Preceded by FitzStephen, and accompani
ed by his nephew Raymond, Maurice landed at Wexford in 1169 with two shi
ps of armed followers, and with the aid of his Norman allies Dermot recove
red Dublin. The coming over of Henry II, and the political dispositions wh
ich he made, fettered the progress of the Geraldines; although at his depa
rture [Easter 1172] the King left Maurice one of the three keepers of Dubl
in. After spending some time in Wales, Maurice returned to Ireland, whe
re the Keeper, Earl Richard, Strongbow, was consolidating the Normans in t
he face of the Irish by making them grants of land in fee, and by arrangi
ng marriages between members of the factious families. [CP 10:11-12]
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From the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Villiers-Stuart Papers.
Villiers-Stuart Papers. Public Record Office of Northern Ireland. (MIC/4
64 and T/3131) Summary. A long and complicated descent. Family history. Wo
rld Wide Web site: Available: [Online]: (http://proni.nics.gov.uk/records/
private/villstu.htm#water) [2 June 2002].
Summary.
The Villiers-Stuart papers comprise c.9,500 documents and volumes, 1215-19
45, relating to the estate, family and political affairs of the Fitzgeral
d, Villiers, Mason, Aland and Villiers-Stuart families of Dromana, Co. Wat
erford, Viscounts and Earls Grandison and Barons Stuart de Decies.
They include: Fitzgerald of the Decies deeds and documents, 1215-1598; Fit
zgerald deeds and documents, 1602-1670; deeds and documents relating to Ka
therine Fitzgerald Villiers, Viscountess Grandison, 1674-1701; Mason tit
le deeds, 1560-1745; wills and testamentary papers, 1658-1662, 1693 and 17
14-1875; Grandison and Villiers-Stuart deeds of settlement, 1708-1920; lea
sebooks and leases, 1680-1902; 19th century legal case papers, 1822-188
3; correspondence of the 1st Earl Grandison, 1708-1767; Mason corresponden
ce, 1708-1759; Grandison correspondence, 1766-1802; Stuart and Villiers-St
uart estate and financial correspondence, 1800-1907; letters and papers, 1
824-1874, of Henry Villiers-Stuart, 1st Lord Stuart de Decies, concerni
ng general politics, Co. Waterford politics and administration, and fami
ly matters; similar letters and papers, 1857-1893, of Henry Windsor Villie
rs-Stuart, MP for Co. Waterford, 1873-1874 and 1880-1885; formal document
s, 1664-1839 and 1908; inventories, 1694-1695, 1726-1762, [1820s] and 1882
-1957; maps, plans, surveys and valuations, 1640, 1652, c.1655 and 1693-18
92; rentals and rent accounts, 1708-1945; and bills, receipts, accounts a
nd account books, 1709-1927.
A long and complicated descent.
The earliest original document among the Villiers-Stuart papers is dated 1
400: the c.22 documents of 1215-1292 a