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Nationality
  
Cambro-Norman

Name
  
Maurice Lord

Siblings
  
Robert FitzStephen


Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Lanstephan Maurice FitzGerald Lord of Lanstephan Wikipedia


Title
  
Lord of Maynooth, Naas, and Lanstephan

Wars and battles
  
Battle of Crug Mawr Norman invasion of Ireland Siege of Wexford (1169)

Issue
  
Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald Alexander FitzMaurice FitzGerald William FitzMaurice FitzGerald Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald Robert FitzMaurice FitzGerald Nest FitzGerald

Died
  
September 1, 1176, Wexford, Republic of Ireland

Children
  
Gerald FitzMaurice, 1st Lord of Offaly, Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald

Parents
  
Nest ferch Rhys, Gerald de Windsor

Grandchildren
  
Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond

Similar People
  
Nest ferch Rhys, Rhys ap Gruffydd, Owain Gwynedd

Maurice FitzGerald, Lord of Maynooth, Naas, and Llanstephan (c. 1105 – September 1176) was a medieval Cambro-Norman baron and a major figure in the Norman invasion of Ireland.

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Wars in Wales and Ireland

A Welsh Marcher Lord, Lanstephan fought under Robert FitzMartin at the Battle of Crug Mawr in Wales 1136.

Diarmait Mac Murchada (Dermot MacMurrough), the deposed King of Leinster who had been exiled by the High King of Ireland, sought Cambro-Norman assistance to regain his throne. Lanstephan participated in the resulting 1169 Norman invasion of Ireland. He assisted his younger half-brother Robert Fitz-Stephen in the Siege of Wexford (1169). His nephew Raymond was Strongbow's second-in-command and had the chief share both in the capture of Waterford and in the successful assault on Dublin in 1171. Lanstephan and his son also fought in this battle.

Marriage and issue

FitzGerald is sometimes said to have married Alice, a supposed daughter of Arnulf de Montgomery. There is no evidence that Arnulf left any descendants, however, and the claim that a daughter of his married FitzGerald dates no earlier than the 19th century. FitzGerald's children were:

  • Gerald FitzMaurice, 1st Lord of Offaly (b. c. 1150, d. before 15 Jan 1204)
  • Alexander
  • William, Lord of Naas (d. c.1199)
  • Maurice, Lord of Kiltrany
  • Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald (d. c.1213)
  • Robert
  • Nest (m. Hervey de Montmorenci, Constable of England)

    • Through his oldest son, Sir Gerald, FitzGerald was the ancestor of the FitzGerald Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster.

    The original Earldom of Desmond in the province of Munster was based on landholdings belonging to the descendants of Maurice's son Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald, Lord of O'Connelloe. Thomas's son John FitzGerald, who was killed in the Battle of Callann, became the first Baron Desmond. Others from this line include the Knights of Glin and Knights of Kerry.

    Ancestry

    FitzGerald was the second son of Gerald de Windsor, Constable of Pembroke Castle by his wife, Nest ferch Rhys, Princess of Deheubarth and a member of the Welsh royal House of Dinefwr.

    Citations

  • Chandler, Victoria (1989), "The last of the Montgomerys: Roger the Poitevin and Arnulf", Historical Research, 62 (147): 1–14, doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.1989.tb01075.x .
  • 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. 358, retrieved 27 December 2011 
  • Curtis, Edmund (1921), "Murchertach O'Brien, high king of Ireland, and his Norman son-in-law, Arnulf de Mont-Gomery, circa 1100", The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 6, 11 (2), JSTOR 25513221 .
  • Fitzgerald, Charles William (1858), The earls of Kildare, and their ancestors (2nd ed.), Hodges, Smith, & Company .
  • Graves, James (1869), "No. 2. the earls of Desmond", The Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, 3, 1 (2): 459–498, JSTOR 25497799 .
  • Paul, James Balfour, ed. (1906), The Scots peerage, 3, David Douglas .
  • Thompson, Kathleen (2004), "Montgomery, Arnulf de (c.1066–1118x22)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/696 . (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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