Maurice Roche (abt. 1440 - abt. 1515)

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Biography

2nd Viscount Roche of Fermoy, m. twice^[1]

One of 15 Irish peers summoned to Greenwich by Henry VII in 1489.^[2]

From Cokayne's Peerage (2nd Edition, 1926, Vol.5, pp.297-298):^[3]

• Succeeded ca.1485 Maurice (Roche), Lord Roche of Fermoy, son and heir. As “Maurice Lord Roche ” he had a commission, 19 May 1488, to guard the county of Cork. He was one of the 15 Irish Peers summoned to Greenwich by Henry VII in 1489, being ranked 2nd to Lord Barry and next above the Viscount Gormanstown (so created Aug. 1478).
• He married 1) Joan, daughter and heir of James FitzThomas (FitzGerald), 8th Earl of Desmond, by Margaret, daughter of Teige O’Brien, of Thomond.
• He married 2) More, daughter of ( — ) O’Brien.

Children by Joan FitzThomas, dau. of James FitzThomas, 8th Earl of Desmond^[4]

1. David, 3rd Lord of Fermoy; d. bef 9 Sept 1539
2. Ellen Roche m. Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald "the lame", 9th Earl of Desmond d. 1520 [disputed fact due to age and consanguinity -- Ellen was more likely a daughter of More O'Brien]
3. Edmund Roche b. ca. 1490
4. Joan Roche m. James de Courcy,^[5] 6th Lord Courcy of Kinsale fl. 1487-96

Sources

1. ↑ Burke's Peerage 1836 p. 692
2. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1890). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (D to F) 3 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 326-327
3. ↑ https://archive.org/details/CokayneG.E.TheCompletePeerageSecondEditionVolume5EAGO/page/n157/mode/1up
4. ↑ From Cracroft's Peerage, although some of these facts are disputed.
5. ↑ James de Courcy was the son of Nicholas, 5th Lord Courcy of Kinsale.

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