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Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

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Resting place
  
Tralee Abbey

Name
  
Maurice 2nd

Tenure
  
1356-1358

Died
  
1358


Nationality
  
Hiberno-Norman

Titles
  
Earl of Desmond

Spouse(s)
  
Beatrice de Stafford

Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

Predecessor
  
Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald

Issue
  
unnamed daughter who married Domnall Og Mac Carthaigh Mor

Parents
  
Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond

Successor
  
Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond

Grandparents
  
Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Baron Desmond

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Great-grandparents
  
Margaret Berkeley

Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond (d. 1358) was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his first wife, Katherine de Burgh.

The 2nd Earl married Beatrice de Stafford, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret Audley, but died without any male issue, and was therefore succeeded in the Earldom of Desmond by his half-brother Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond.

References

Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond Wikipedia