Sir
Maurice
Fitzgerald
Born in Lackagh, County Kildare, Ireland
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Fitzgerald
and Eleanor (Delahoide) Fitzgerald
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Margaret (Butler) O'More
— married
after 1546 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Fitzgerald and Mary (Fitzgerald) O'Dempsey
Died
at about age 49
in Ireland
Profile last modified
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Note: Not to be confused with 2 other men named Maurice FitzGerald of the era:
- Sir Maurice FitzGerald (ca.1530-1572), 1st Viscount of the Decies, who via his mother Ellice Butler was 1st cousin to his political ally Thomas, 10th Earl of Ormond. Sir Maurice's land was at the heart of the Ormond-Desmond dispute during the famous Battle of Affane in early 1565.
- The above Sir Maurice's uncle Maurice FitzGerald (ca.1480-1524), Archbishop of Cashel, an illegitimate son of John FitzGerald, 2nd Lord Decies.
All three men descended from James the Usurper (1380-1463), 6th Earl of Desmond.
Biography
Died 26 Dec 1575, age 49,[1][2] and his altar tomb is in St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare.[3]
1552: Received a grant from King Edward VI of the "Bealyne" bridge in O'Dempsey's Country, or Clanmalier, and the adjoining boat, rent-free, on condition of building a castle at one end of the bridge and a tower at the other.[4]
1556: Sir Maurice became Justice of the Peace for County Kildare.
1562, 1574: Sheriff of County Kildare.[5]
Children of Sir Maurice FitzGerald and Margaret Butler. "All these children are mentioned in their father's will":[6]
- Thomas of Lackagh (d. 20 Jun 1611[7]) + Elizabeth Barnewall (daughter of Mark of Dunbroe, County Dublin, who died 1574). Their son Maurice married Ellen, daughter of James Butler, Baron Dunboyne (d.1624).
- James of Kilrush (d. 20 Aug 1602[8]) + a sister of Barnaby Doyne / Dunne (1550-1614) of Mylicke/Milvick[9][10][11]
- Gerald of Corbally, County Longford[12][13]
- Edward of Mylesse, County Carlow[14]
- Margaret
- Catherine
- Ellis (or Elinor) + Sir Pierce FitzGerald, Knight, of Ballyshannon, who was High Sheriff of County Kildare. Both slain by the O'Byrnes at Ardrie Castle, County Kildare, 17 Mar 1593[15]
- Mary FitzGerald (d. 1614) m. Sir Terence O'Dempsey (as noted by Sir Robert Cecil on one of the pages of a communication he had received from Sir Geoffrey Fenton [16]
Upon his death in 1575, Sir Maurice Fitzgerald recognised 2 of Margaret's living sons ("Kedaghe and Calughe/Calvagh O'More") from her previous marriage, and in his will he bequeathed to them "all my appareile".[17]
Sources
See extensive pedigree here (Fitzgerald, Walter. "The Fitzgeralds of Lackagh", Journal of the Co. Kildare Archaeological Society and Surrounding Districts, Vol. 1, County Kildare Archaeological Society, Kildare, 1895):
- ↑ Altar tomb in St. Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare, created by his widow "Margaret, daughter of Edmond", as referenced several times in Walter FitzGerald's research for the County Kildare Archeological Society, here in Vol. 6, 1909, p.400:
- ↑ Cathedral of Kildare: There is here an effigial monument to Sir Maurice FitzGerald of Lackagh; the recumbent figure is curiously carved in armour, the right side of the tomb, when in place, having five escutcheons, differently emblazoned. The inscription, which is somewhat effaced, is as follows: “Domina Margareta Butler hoc Monumentum fieri fecit ob Memoriam Mauricii FitzGeralde de Laccagh Militis quondam sui Mariti, qui obiit XX die Decembris, Anno Domini 1575. Walterus Brennagh Fecit.”
- ↑ Brief history & modern photos of St Brigid's Cathedral, Kildare:
- ↑ Journal of the County Kildare Archeological Society, p.252:
- ↑ Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. 2, p.259:
- ↑ Journal of the County Kildare Archeological Society:
- ↑ Principal Gentry of County Kildare in 1600:
- ↑ Principal Gentry of County Kildare in 1600:
- ↑ Barnaby Doyne's maternal uncle was the same Sir Pierce FitzGerald (mentioned in biography above) who married James' sister Ellis/Elinor. These 2 FitzGerald branches were distant cousins, both descended from Maurice, 4th Earl of Kildare.
- ↑ In Sir Maurice's will of 1575 is included the following item: "I bequiet [bequeath] to my second son James fitzGerald (of Kilrush), and his heyres male lawful of his bodie begottin, the towne, lands, tenements and hereditaments of Donmorughell." Source: County Kildare Archeological Society, Vol. 7
- ↑ Among James' children were Richard FitzGerald of Booleybegg, mentioned here in a land transaction with his cousin Sir James FitzGerald, son of his murdered aunt Elinor/Ellis:
- ↑ This was not the same Gerald fitz Maurice FitzGerald ("Captain Garret"), of Duneany, a branch of the House of Lackagh, hanged on 13 Dec 1581 as punishment for fighting on behalf of James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass against the English Crown towards the end of the Desmond Rebellions. Researcher Walter FitzGerald explains Captain Garret's specific Lackagh lineage in another volume of the Journal.
- Walter Fitzgerald. "Baltinglass Abbey, Its Possessions, and their Post-Reformation Proprietors", Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, Vol. V, 1906, p.395:
- ↑ See also Walter Fitzgerald's profile on "Captain Garrett" Fitzgerald in Vol.6 of the Journal of the County Kildare Archaeological Society, (1909), pp.353-355:
- ↑ In 1587, Queen Elizabeth grants "to Edward FitzGerald [younger brother of Sir Thomas of Lackagh] the manor of Kildrought, Kilmacredock, and the said water mill, as well as the castle, and all messuages, lands, and tenements, as well temporal as spiritual, to hold to him, his heirs, and assigns for ever:
- ↑ See profile of Felim O'Byrne for more context about the 1593 murder.
- ↑ Atkinson's Cal. of State Papers, Ir. p. 149. via Journal of the Co. Kildare archaeological society and surrounding districts, pub 1891 pg 423
- ↑ Kildare Archaelogical Society Journal, Vol. 6, p.36:
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