Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameGerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald 
[60, Offaly art, Vol X, p. 10 seq]
[60, Offaly art, Vol X, p. 10 seq]Death1287
GeneralPresumably dsp. 4th feudal baron of Offaly.
FatherMaurice FitzGerald (-1268)
MotherN N
DNB Main notes for Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Co-subject: [Fitzgerald], Gerald Fitzmaurice, [baron of Offaly]
Dates: 1265?-1287?
Active Date: 1287
Gender: Male
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Maurice Fitzgerald d. 1268, son of Gerald, the eldest son, inherited the barony of Offaly (Sweetman, vol. ii.). He married Agnes, daughter of William de Valence, uncle of Edward I, and appears to have been drowned in crossing between England and Ireland, 28 July 1268 (Clyn, p. 9; Annals of Ireland, ii. 290, 316; Loch Cé, p. 459; Ann. Four Masters, ii. 404). He must be distinguished from his uncle Maurice Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (d. 1277) [q.v.]. He left an infant heir, Gerald Fitzmaurice, aged three and a half years (Sweetman, Nos. 1106, 2163, p. 467, &c.; Book of Howth, p. 324; Dugdale, i. 776). This child was the ward of Thomas de Clare, brother to the Earl of Gloucester, and, by purchase, of William de Valence. In 1285 he, as baron of Offaly in succession to his father, was attacked by the native Irish of the barony. We find this Gerald Fitzmaurice coming of age about 1286 (Sweetman, vol. ii. Nos. 866-7, 957, 970, 1039, &c.; vol. iii. Nos. 29, 238, 456, p. 75, &c.; Abbrev. Plac. pp. 263, 283), and it is probably he to whom Clyn refers (p. 10) in his crucial passage on the Geraldine succession where he says that ‘Gerald, filius Mauricii, capitaneus Geraldinorum’ died in 1287 and left his inheritance to his grand-uncle's son John Fitzthomas [q.v.]. Some genealogists contend that Gerald Fitzmaurice was son of Maurice Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (d. 1277) [q.v.], the justiciar. But he was clearly that justiciar's grand-nephew.
Dates: 1265?-1287?
Active Date: 1287
Gender: Male
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Maurice Fitzgerald d. 1268, son of Gerald, the eldest son, inherited the barony of Offaly (Sweetman, vol. ii.). He married Agnes, daughter of William de Valence, uncle of Edward I, and appears to have been drowned in crossing between England and Ireland, 28 July 1268 (Clyn, p. 9; Annals of Ireland, ii. 290, 316; Loch Cé, p. 459; Ann. Four Masters, ii. 404). He must be distinguished from his uncle Maurice Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (d. 1277) [q.v.]. He left an infant heir, Gerald Fitzmaurice, aged three and a half years (Sweetman, Nos. 1106, 2163, p. 467, &c.; Book of Howth, p. 324; Dugdale, i. 776). This child was the ward of Thomas de Clare, brother to the Earl of Gloucester, and, by purchase, of William de Valence. In 1285 he, as baron of Offaly in succession to his father, was attacked by the native Irish of the barony. We find this Gerald Fitzmaurice coming of age about 1286 (Sweetman, vol. ii. Nos. 866-7, 957, 970, 1039, &c.; vol. iii. Nos. 29, 238, 456, p. 75, &c.; Abbrev. Plac. pp. 263, 283), and it is probably he to whom Clyn refers (p. 10) in his crucial passage on the Geraldine succession where he says that ‘Gerald, filius Mauricii, capitaneus Geraldinorum’ died in 1287 and left his inheritance to his grand-uncle's son John Fitzthomas [q.v.]. Some genealogists contend that Gerald Fitzmaurice was son of Maurice Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald (d. 1277) [q.v.], the justiciar. But he was clearly that justiciar's grand-nephew.