Philip (Prendergast) de Prendergast (abt. 1170 - abt. 1229)

Descendants

Died about 1229 at about age 59 in Leinster, Ireland

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Biography

"Philip de Prendergast; of age by 1206; married Maude, daughter and heir of Robert de Quincy, through whom he acquired the town of Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, and the Constableship of Leinster, and died 1226, leaving [William, 2nd son], with an eldest son (Gerald, founder of Enniscorthy Abbey, married 1st Matilda, daughter of Theobald le Botiller/Butler, and had a daughter Maria (married John de Cogan (died 1278), of Bampton, Devon), married 2nd Matilda, daughter of Richard de Burgo/Burgh and sister of the Earl of Ulster, and died 1251, having by her had a daughter Matilda (married Maurice de Rochfort) and a youngest son (David)." [Burke's Peerage]

Philip and Maud resided at Enniscorthy Castle from 1190 until his death in 1229.

From The Charters of the Abbey of Duiske:^[1]

• Philip de Prendergast was son of Maurice de Prendergast, from the Flemish colony in Pembrokeshire, who had been granted land near Wexford by Strongbow. Philip, who was one of William Marshal's men (although not uniformly loyal to his lord), married Matilda de Quency in 1198, and thus became lord of the manor of Enniscorthy. He appears frequently as a witness to charters of this period. He died in 1229.

Sources

1. ↑ Constance Mary Butler & John Henry Bernard (editors), The Charters of the Abbey of Duiske (Dublin, 1918), p.21:
   • https://archive.org/details/chartersofabbeyo00butl/page/20/mode/2up?q=philip

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I04586