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General Thomas Mifflin married, at Fair Hill Meeting, March 4, 1767, Sarah Morris. (Morris IV.) They left no male issue, but did leave four daughters, mistakenly omitted by some writers. They were "all beautiful women," writes Benjamin C. Mifflin, in his memorial to his father, Charles Mifflin, M. D. (1876). "One died insane; another married Judge Hopkinson, of Philadelphia, and it is to her that Moore alludes in his ballad-
Alone by the Schuylkill a wanderer roved.
The third married a Southern gentleman, whose name I do not know (I believe he came from New Orleans) ; and the fourth married a Mr. Seibenstein, of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. Their descendants still live in the neighborhood, and are plain respectable country people. The tomb of certain members of the family can still be seen in St. Peter's Churchyard, Philadelphia."
(Family data.)
(VI) EMILY MIFFLIN, daughter of Major-General Thomas and Sarah (Mor- ris) Mifflin, married Hon. Joseph Hopkinson. (Hopkinson III.)
(Ibid.)
(The Morris Line).
Morris, Morriss, Maurice, Morse, etc., is a common surname and may be traced to various sources. "Of the English families of that time," writes Burke, in his "Commoners," Vol. IV, p. 488, "there are two classes, those of native and those of foreign extraction. The latter came over with the Conqueror. Of the former, the most ancient are derived from Wales."
(Lower: "Patronymica Britannica.")
(I) EVAN MORRIS was born in Cardiganshire, Wales, about 1654, and died in Abington, Pennsylvania, in 1708. In 1683, he was converted to the Quaker faith in Wales, and the account of his subsequent sufferings and imprisonment for his faith is recorded in Quaker documents. He came to Pennsylvania in 1690, bringing a certificate from the "Quarterly Meeting at Tydden y Garreg in ye County Merioneth," Wales, dated "6 mo. 8, 1690," and the certificate included the names of Evan Morris, wife Gainor, and two children, Morris and Catherine. He was a glover and carried on this business in Philadelphia before settling in Abington (now in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.) Evan Morris married, in Wales, Gainor. They had a son :
1. Morris, of whom further.
(C. Roberts : "Early Friends in Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania," pp. 389-91.)
(II) MORRIS MORRIS, son of Evan and Gainor Morris, was born at Criketh, Carnarvonshire, Wales, 8 mo. 5, 1677, and died at Richland, Pennsylvania, 6 mo. 2, 1764. In 1690, he came to Pennsylvania with his parents. After a brief resi- dence in Philadelphia the family settled in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. Morris Morris inherited his father's four hundred acres in Abington and resided there until about 1744, but he had already bought extensive land tracts in the Manor of Richland. He had land also in Milford Township and about 1,000 addi- tional acres within the Manor of Richland. His wife was a minister of the Friends. Both, in later life, were of Richland Friends' Meeting, of which they were prominent organizers. Morris Morris married, 8 mo. 2, 1703, Susanna
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Heath, daughter of Robert and Susanna (Woodrich) Heath. Their children included Morris, Jr., of whom further.
(C. Roberts: "Early Friends of Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania," pp. 389, 390-91. H. M. Jenkins: "Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd, Pennsylvania," p. 135.)
(III) MORRIS MORRIS, JR., son of Morris and Susanna (Heath) Morris, was of Upper Dublin Township (now Montgomery County, Pennsylvania). He mar- ried, at Philadelphia, "I mo. 22, 1743-44, Elizabeth Mifflin, born 3 mo. 19, 1727, buried December 17, 1760, daughter of Jonathan and first wife Sarah (Robin- son) Mifflin." Among their children was Sarah, of whom further.
(J. H. Merrill: "Memoranda Relating to the Mifflin Family," p. 34.)
(IV) SARAH MORRIS, daughter of Morris and Elizabeth (Mifflin) Morris, was born at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, "4 mo. 5, 1747" (old style), and died August 1, 1790. She married Major-General Thomas Mifflin. ( Mifflin V.)
(J. H. Merrill: "Memoranda Relating to the Mifflin Family" (1890), pp. 21, 34, 45. C. P. Keith : "Provincial Councillors of Pennsylvania," pp. 362, 364.)
(The Line of Fitzgerald of Kildare).
The statement is often made that the Fitzgerald family is of Italian origin and descended from one of the followers of Aeneas, who located at what is now Florence, after the siege of Troy. The only early evidence is the resemblance of the name to that of the Gherardini family of Florence. The earliest authentic record of the family of our interest is that found in the Domesday Book compiled in 1086. It shows that Walter Fitz Other held one and three-fourths hides of land and some woodland at Windsor "which King Edward had given his predecessor" out of the royal desmesne for custody of the forest. It was the Norman custom to add the prefix Fitz to the Christian name of the father to form a surname for the children. In early days sometimes the name was hyphenated as it properly was in the beginning, later usage generally making one word. In this case it would denote that Walter was the son of Other, in some accounts spelled Otto, but the predecessor at Windsor was not necessarily his father. This statement of land at Windsor belonging to a predecessor of Walter is the origin of the story that the family preceded William the Conqueror to England and that Otto (or Other) was one of those foreigners so favored by Edward the Confessor as to excite the jeal- ousy of the native Anglo-Saxon nobles.
(J. H. Round: "Origin of the Fitzgeralds' Ancestor," Vol. I, pp. 119-21, 122-23.)
(I) WALTER FITZ OTHER, in addition to owning land at Windsor was, accord- ing to the Domesday Book, tenant in chief, holding the manor of the King in Berkshire, Bucks, Middlesex, Surrey and Hants. He also held Winchfield in Hampshire under Chertsey Abbey. As tenant in chief his barony was reckoned at fifteen or twenty knights' fees, of whom fifteen knights were owed as a castle guard at Windsor. The Abingdon Cartulary shows that he was living as late as 1100 and that the name of his wife was Beatrice. The Duke of Leincester, in his "Earls of Kildare," and Burke's "Peerage" both gave the name of his wife as Gladys, daughter of Rhiwallon ap Cynfyn, Prince of North Wales. It is possi- ble that he married twice. His children included :
1. Gerald, of whom further.
(Ibid., Vol. I, pp. 91-97.)
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(II) GERALD FITZ WALTER, son of Walter Fitz Other and Gladys (or Bea- trice), his wife, was appointed constable of Pembroke Castle by Henry I and was later made president of the county of Pembroke. In 1094, he defended the castle when it was besieged by the Welsh. He married Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Ruffydh ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales, and widow of Stephen, con- stable of Cardigan. He had a son :
I. Maurice, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," pp. 3-4.)
(III) MAURICE FITZ GERALD, son of Gerald Fitz Walter and Nesta, his wife, was the first of the family to locate in Ireland. Dermot Mac Nurrough, King of Leinster, had been driven from his kingdom by Roderick O'Connor, King of Ireland, and went to England, where he was hospitably received by David Fitz Gerald, Bishop of St. Davids. While in England he obtained the aid of some of the Norman nobles to regain the kingdom and offered Maurice Fitz Gerald and his half-brother, Robert Fitz Stephen, the town of Wexford and two baronies in its neighborhood. They accepted the offer and, in 1169, landed in Ireland. Mau- rice accompanied Dermot when he took Dublin and was in that city in 1171 when it was besieged by Roderick O'Connor. The siege was broken when Maurice, with a force of six hundred men, attacked the much more numerous troops of O'Connor and put them to flight in great confusion. In April of the following year Henry II of England landed in Ireland and appointed Maurice Fitz Gerald and Robert Fitz Stephen wardens of Dublin under Hugh de Lacy, chief governor of Ireland. Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, surnamed Strongbow, had also played an important part in the invasion, but became so jealous of Maurice that he retired into Wales as soon as de Lacy was recalled. In 1176, Strongbow found that he could not maintian his position without the aid of Geraldines and granted Maurice the barony of Offaly. It included Rathangen and the territory of Offelan in which Maynooth and Naas were located. He also obtained the castle Wicklow in place of the promised grant at Wexford, which the King claimed for himself. In defense of his property Maurice built the Castle of Maynooth. He died at Wex- ford in September, 1177, and was buried in the Abbey of Grey Friars.
He married Alice de Montgomery, daughter of Arnulph, fourth son of Roger de Montgomery. He had a son :
1. Gerald, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," pp. 5-10.)
(IV) GERALD FITZ MAURICE, son of Maurice and Alice (de Montgomery) Fitz Gerald, was with his father at the siege of Dublin in 1171 and distinguished himself in the sortie. Soon after the death of his father he was induced to exchange the Castle of Wicklow for that of Ferns in Wexford. He is said to have been Lord Justice of Ireland and was the first to use the title Baron of Offaly. In I205 he was summoned to Parliament as holding that barony which was located in the county of Kildare. He died the same year. Gerald Fitz Maurice married Catherine de Valois, daughter of Hamo de Valois, a gentleman of Suffolk, who had been Lord Justice of Ireland in 1197. He was the father of :
1. Maurice, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 10-11.)
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(V) MAURICE FITZ GERALD, son of Gerald and Catherine (de Valois) Fitz Maurice, was second Baron of Offaly. He received, in 1216, a royal grant of the Castles of Croom and Dungarvan, the latter of these being resumed by the crown after his death, and in 1260 granted to John Fitz Thomas, ancestor of the Earls of Desmond. Maurice Fitz Gerald introduced into Ireland the Order of the Franciscans in 1215, and in 1216 that of the Dominicans. In 1232 he was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland and was later reappointed to that post after com- manding a large force to aid the King overseas. He built two abbeys in 1236, that of the Franciscans at Youghal in 1232 and the Dominican Abbey at Sligo. Among the military campaigns in which he participated was that of reducing the province of Connaught to submission in 1235. In 1246, he advanced to Tyrconnell, and in 1248 into Tyrone with the same results against the native chiefs, O'Donnell and O'Neill. In addition to his already large gifts to the church he founded the pre- ceptory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem at Kilted in the County Kildare and granted the chapel at Maynooth to the Cathedral of St. Patrick and the church of Tachtodh (or Taghadoe) to the monastery of All Saints near Dublin. The last years of his life were spent in the monastery at Youghal which he had founded and where, after assuming the habit of the Franciscan Order, he died in 1257.
Maurice Fitz Gerald married Juliana de Cogan, daughter of John de Cogan, who was Lord Justice in 1247. He had a son :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," pp. 1I-19.)
(VI) THOMAS FITZ MAURICE, third son of Maurice and Juliana (de Cogan) Fitz Gerald, like his father, was generous in his gifts to the church. He founded the Franciscan Abbey at Castledermot, the ruins of which remain, and the Trini- tarian Abbey at Adare, which is still used as a chapel. Thomas Fitz Maurice mar- ried (first) Rose de St. Michael, daughter of Richard de St. Michael, Lord of Rheban and heiress of Athy and Woodstock. He married (second) Margaret Mandeville, daughter of Thomas Lord Mandeville, and (third) Mary Walter, daughter of Theobald Walter. Child :
1. John, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," pp. 19-21.)
(VII) JOHN FITZ THOMAS FITZGERALD, son of Thomas Fitz Maurice and Rose (de St. Michael) FitzGerald, because neither of his cousins had issue, was the last surviving male descendant of Gerald, first Baron of Offaly, and succeeded to that title. He later gained that of the first Earl of Kildare. According to a tradition in the family, when he was a child in the Castle of Woodstock, there was an alarm of fire and in the confusion the child was forgotten. When a search was made the room in which he had been was in ruins. A noise was soon heard on one of the towers and an ape was found holding the child in his arms. He afterwards in gratitude adopted the monkey for his crest. One of his neighbors was William De Vesci, Lord of Kildare, but on account of the contiguity of their estates they were constantly quarreling. Each accused the other of being a traitor to the King, who summoned them to his court in England. Fitz Thomas challenged his adver- sary to combat and the King fixed the day. DeVeser, instead of appearing, fled to France and the King declaring Fitz Thomas innocent, granted him the lands de
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Vesci had left in Ireland. In this way he gained possession of the manor and town of Kildare. In 1294 the Irish, under Calvagh, brother of O'Connor Faly, invaded the Pale or that part of Ireland under English control, and seized the Castle of Kildare. Fitz Thomas defeated them and invaded Connaught. In 1296, he took his forces to Scotland to assist King Edward I and he later returned to Scotland twice for the same purpose. For many years there had been disputes between the Geraldines and the deBurghs, Earls of Ulster, which were settled in 1298 through the interference of Sir John Wogan, Lord Justice. It was agreed that the Earl of Ulster should give his daughter in marriage to Thomas, the Baron's son, while Lord Offaly should pay 3,000 marks indemnity, including Sligo Castle. In 1315, when the Scotch invaded Ireland, the Baron of Offaly and other lords of Leinster and Munster led in the opposition. Fitz Thomas received the title Earl of Kildare, May 14, 1316, the patent being granted by Edward II, and died September 10 of that year at Maynooth, or Laraghbryan, and was buried in the Grey Abbey at Kildare. John Fitz Thomas married Blanche Roche, daughter of John Baron, of Fermoy. Of his children was Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid., pp. 22-28.)
(VIII) THOMAS FITZGERALD, second Earl of Kildare, son of John Fitz Thomas and Blanche (Roche) Fitzgerald, succeeded his father in 1316. At the end of the same year he was appointed by the King to 'command an army of 30,000 raised to oppose the Scots. The office of sheriff of Kildare was granted to Thomas Fitzgerald in 1317, and was still possessed by his descendant, the ninth Earl, in the reign of Henry VIII. In 1320 he was Lord Justice of Ireland. Two years later he was reappointed and held the office until his death at Maynooth April 9, 1328. Thomas Fitzgerald married, in 1312, Lady Joan de Burgh, daughter of Richard, Earl of Ulster. They had a son :
1. Maurice, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," p. 31.)
(IX) MAURICE FITZGERALD, fourth Earl of Kildare, son of Thomas and Joan (de Burgh) Fitzgerald, was born in 1318. During his minority King Edward III, as guardian, granted the family lands to Sir John Darey, his stepfather. In 1339, Maurice Fitzgerald became of age and took possession of the lands at Kildare, Maynooth, Croom, Adare, and Estgrene. The same year Kildare was invaded by the O'Dempseys, but the young Earl pursued them so closely that many were drowned in the River Barrow and he brought back to Dublin the greatest booty ever taken at that time in Ireland. Edward III, in 1342, issued an ordinance that Englishmen alone should hold office in Ireland, with the result that there were serious dissensions between the "English by blood" and the "English by birth." The Earl of Kildare with other Anglo-Irish lords called an assembly at Kilkenny, which petitioned the King, who returned an answer which allayed the discontent. The Lord Justice Sir Ralph Ufford determined to restrain the increasing power of the Earl of Kildare, and for a time imprisoned him in Dublin Castle. Soon after his release he was summoned to England and from there he accompanied the King to France, where he was present at the siege of Calais. For his gallant conduct as leader of the Irish Division he was knighted by Edward III. He was appointed Justiciary of Ireland in 1357 and in March, 1371, Lord Deputy and Custor of the
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Realm. He died August 25, 1390, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trin- ity, now Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin.
Maurice Fitzgerald married Elizabeth Burghersh, daughter of Sir Bartholo- mew Burghersh, Knight of the Garter. He had a son :
1. Gerald, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," p. 35.)
(X) GERALD FITZGERALD, fifth Earl of Kildare, son of Maurice and Elizabeth (Burghersh) Fitzgerald, succeeded his father in 1390. He was taken prisoner by Calvagh, son of Murrogh O'Connor Faly, and held for ransom. In June, 1400, he with two others, was appointed keeper and supervisor of the peace for the coun- ties of Cork, Limerick and Kerry and was deputy to the Lord Lieutenant for one year. His chief military engagement was in 1407, when he defeated O'Carroll in the battle of Callan in Kilkenny. The fifth Earl died in 1410 and was buried with his ancestors in the Grey Abbey at Kildare. Gerald Fitzgerald married Margaret Rochfort, daughter and heiress of Sir John Rochfort. Their son was:
1. John, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 37.)
(XI) JOHN FITZGERALD, sixth Earl of Kildare, son of Gerald and Margaret (Rochfort) Fitzgerald, succeeded his father in 1410. He was arrested and imprisoned in the Castle of Trim in 1418 "for having communicated with the Prior of Kilmainham," but it is not known what the offense really was. He seems to have quickly gained the favor of the government, for two years later he received twenty marks to defray the expenses he had incurred in resisting the enemies on the frontiers of the Pale. He strengthened and enlarged the Castles of Maynooth and Kilkea. The former of these was the principal residence of the earls for more than a century and was described as "one of the largest and richest earl's houses in Ireland." John Fitzgerald married Margaret de la Herne. They had a son :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 38.)
(XII) THOMAS FITZGERALD, seventh Earl of Kildare, son of John and Mar- garet (de la Herne) Fitzgerald, succeeded his father in 1427. From 1454 to 1459 he was Lord Deputy to Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, and in 1460 he was made Lord Justice. In January, 1463, he was appointed Lord Chancellor for life. He established the Order of the Brothers of St. George, consisting of thirteen persons of the highest rank and loyalty belonging to Dublin, Kildare, Meath, and Louth. Its object was to resist Irish enemies and English rebels. It was dissolved by Act of Parliament in 1494. The seventh Earl died March 25, 1477, and was buried in the Monastery of All Hallows, near Dublin. Thomas Fitzgerald married Lady Joan Fitzgerald, daughter of James, sixth Earl of Desmond. (Fitzgerald of Desmond XI.) Their son was:
1. Thomas, of whom further.
(C. W. Fitzgerald: "Earls of Kildare," pp. 38-42, 43, 48, 71, 77.)
(XIII) THOMAS FITZGERALD, son of Thomas and Lady Joan (Fitzgerald) Fitzgerald, was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland in 1484. Like his brother,
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Gerald, the eighth Earl of Kildare, and many of the nobility of Ireland, he cham- pioned the side of Lambert Sinnel, who claimed he was the last Earl of Warwick, and joining in the invasion of England, was slain at the battle of Stoke. Thomas Fitzgerald married Joan Fitz Gibbon. They were the ancestors of the Fitzgeralds of Lackagh, Kilbrush and Narraghbey, all in the County Kildare.
(Burke: "Peerage and Baronetage," p. 448.)
(XIV) JOHN FITZGERALD, according to the "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale," is the next in line, although Irish records do not appear to mention this. He resided at Dromana, Waterford County, Ireland, and married Ellen Fitz Gib- bon there, and had a son:
I. Patrick, of whom further.
(W. Dickinson : "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale.")
(XV) PATRICK FITZGERALD, son of John and Ellen (Fitz Gibbon) Fitzgerald, resided at Dromana, County Waterford. He married Ann Fitzgerald, and they had :
I. James, of whom further.
(W. Dickinson: "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale.")
(XVI) JAMES FITZGERALD, son of Patrick and Ann (Fitzgerald) Fitzgerald, married Margaret Garrett, and they had Garrett, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(XVII) GARRETT FITZGERALD, second son of James and Margaret (Garrett) Fitzgerald, was of County Waterford, Ireland, in 1616.
(Ibid.)
(XVIII) JOHN FITZGERALD, second son of Garrett Fitzgerald, died in 1675. (Ibid.)
(XIX) RICHARD FITZGERALD, son of John Fitzgerald, died in 1692. He had at least four sons, the fourth being Andrew, of whom further.
(W. Dickinson : "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale.")
(XX) ANDREW FITZGERALD, son of Richard Fitzgerald, died in 1750 He had a son :
I. Garrett, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(XXI) GARRETT FITZGERALD, son of Andrew Fitzgerald, died in 1792. He married Johanna O'Brian (O'Bryan), and they had :
1. Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid.)
(The Family in America.)
(I) THOMAS FITZGERALD, son of Garrett and Johanna (O'Brian) Fitzger- ald, was born in Farnane, Waterford County, Ireland, in December, 1749. In 1767 he sailed for America and located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he died December 30, 1822. He married, August 5, 1777, Catharine Francis, daugh- ter of Thomas and Sarah (Cornogg) Francis, and they had a daughter :
I. Margaret, of whom further. (Ibid.)
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(II) MARGARET FITZGERALD, daughter of Thomas and Catharine (Francis) Fitzgerald, was born October 3, 1783, according to family records, although given as 1793 in the "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale." The former appears to be the logical date. She died August 28, 1865. She married Dr. Richard Colegate Dale. (Dale III.)
(W. Dickinson : "Ancestry of Richard Colgate Dale.")
(The Line of Fitzgerald of Desmond).
Generations I-III are the same as generations I-III of the Fitz Gerald of Kil- dare Line.
(IV) THOMAS FITZ MAURICE, son of Maurice and Alice (de Montgomery) Fitz Gerald, was the ancestor of several branches of the Fitz Gerald family, including the Earls of Desmond, the White Knight, the Knight of Glyn, the Knight of Kerry, the Fitz Maurices, the Lord of Kerry and the present Marquis of Lansdowne. He was given five knights' fees in the Tuath of Elevri in the Cantred of Fontemel, five knights' fee in the Tuath of Huamerith in Thomond on the Shannon and a burgage within the walls of Limerick by the King, September 6, 1199. He died in 1213 or 1214. Authorities differ as to his marriage. Some claim he married Eleanor, daughter of Jordan and sister of Geoffrey de Marisco (or Moryson), Lord Justice. The Fine Rolls show that Sabina, late wife of Thomas Fitz Maurice, paid 600 marks for custody of his land and his heir :
I. John, of whom further.
(Burke: "Peerage and Baronetage," p. 1448. G. E. Cokayne: "Complete Peerage" (1919), Vol. IV, p. 233.)
(V) JOHN FITZ THOMAS, son of Thomas Fitz Maurice and Sabina, his wife, succeeded to his father's estate. He was slain July 23, 1261, in battle with the MacCarthys of Carbery at Callen in the County Kerry and was buried in the Dominican Friary at Tralee in the same county, which friary he had founded. John Fitz Thomas married Margery Fitz Anthony, daughter of Thomas Fitz Anthony, Seneschal of Leinster, who had received from the King lands of Decies and Desmond, comprising most of the county of Waterford and the southern part of the County Tipperary. Since Thomas Fitz Anthony died without male issue his estate was divided among his daughters and in 1259 came into the hands of John Fitz Thomas. He had a son :
1. Maurice, of whom further.
(G. E. Cokayne: "Complete Peerage" (1919), Vol. IV, pp. 233-34.)
(VI) MAURICE FITZ JOHN, son of John Fitz Thomas and Margery Fitz Anthony, his wife, was slain at the battle of Callan at the same time as his father. He married Maud de Barry, and they had :
I. Thomas, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 234.)
(VII) THOMAS FITZ MAURICE, Lord of Decies and Desmond, son of Maurice Fitz John and Maud de Barry, was only a few months old at the time of the death of his father and his grandfather. He received the lands at Decies and Desmond, together with the custody of the Castle of Dungarvan from the King, February 6, 1291-92. In 1294, he was summoned for military service by Edward I and the fol-
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lowing year was justiciar of Ireland. He died June 4, 1298, at Knicking, County Limerick, and was buried at the Dominican Friary at Tralee. He married Mar- garet de Berkeley, daughter of Sir Thomas de Berkeley by Joan, daughter of Wil- liam de Ferrers, Earl of Derby. He had a son :
I. Maurice, of whom further.
(Ibid., p. 236.)
(VIII) MAURICE FIT7. THOMAS, first Earl of Desmond, son of Thomas Fitz Maurice and Margaret de Berkeley, was born in 1293. On account of the death of his elder brother he became heir of his father and in 1314 did homage to the King for his property and in 1329 was made Earl of Desmond. Maurice Fitz Thomas married (first) at Green Castle, County Down, August 5, 1312, Katherine de Burgh, sixth daughter of Richard de Burglı, Earl of Ulster. She died Novem- ber 1, 1331, and he married (second) Margaret O'Brien, daughter of Conor O'Brien, of Thomand, and (third) prior to April 20, 1344, Aveline, daughter of Nicholas Fitz Maurice, of Kerry. He had a son :
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