John FitzMaurice (aft. 1479 - bef. 1536)

Born after 1479 in County Cork, Ireland

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Descendants

Died before May 1536 before age 57 in County Cork, Ireland

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Biography

Presumably born after 1479, the year his parents married.

From historian Paul MacCotter:^[1]

• "[In 1495] John, a canon of Ardfert, was provided as Bishop of Ardfert,^[2] despite being under age. As a bishop John fitz Maurice could not marry, but this did not prevent him continuing the line of Knights of Kerry. How this happened is recorded in a later account:
  • “John, bishop of Ardfert, being son and heer to the Knight of Kerry did company with More, O'Connor Kerry’s daughter, who was wife to Mr. Shane de Moor of Culeymeyly in the county of Kerry, steward to the Earl of Desmond, and it is said that she, in the lifetime of her said husband, bore three sons and two daughters begotten to the said Bishop.”^[3]

• "Before passing judgement using modern Catholic values here, we should note that the Irish Church, in common with many European churches of the period, did not adopt enthusiastically the canon law on clerical celibacy, and priests and bishops having partners and children was the norm."

• "The bishop was dead by May of 1536, and was succeeded by his eldest and technically bastard son, William, of whom little is known beyond his marriage to Una, daughter of Edmund FitzMaurice, Lord Lixnaw,^[4] by whom he had 5 sons and one daughter. One of William’s unnamed sisters married with Thomas fitz Gerald Oge FitzGerald of Kilmacow, a grandson of Thomas,^[5] Earl of Desmond."

Sources

1. ↑ Paul MacCotter, "The earlier Geraldine Knights of Kerry", in Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 2/16 (2016), 5-36:
   • https://www.academia.edu/33218063/_The_earlier_Geraldine_Knights_of_Kerry_in_Journal_of_the_Kerry_Archaeological_and_Historical_Society_2_16_2016_5_36
2. ↑ John's great-grandfather Nicholas, 5th Knight of Kerry, was also Bishop of Ardfert.
3. ↑ For this excerpt MacCotter references "TCD MS 1212", presumably Trinity College Dublin (standard abbreviation among Irish researchers).
4. ↑ Possibly referring to Edmund FitzMaurice, 9th Baron of Lixnaw.
5. ↑ Presumably Thomas, 11th Earl of Desmond, given the time period.

• http://www.thepeerage.com/p35877.htm#i358763