Sir Maurice Fitz Gerald Baron Offaly, Lord Lea

   Another name for Maurice was Gerald Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald 1st Baron of Offaly.¹⁴¹

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition,, 178:5 , 2nd Baron Offaly, knighted July 1217, Lord of Lea, Justiciar of Ireland, Commissioner of the Treasury and Councillor, married Juliane. ¹⁶⁰

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, "The Geraldine" pedigree chart, p. 200 ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Maurice Fitz Gerald, son and heir of Gerald Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald, baron of Offaly & Eve de Bermingham, was knighted in July 1217. As Maurice Fitz Gerald, lord of Lea, the younger, he was one of the formal witnesses to a covenant of dower made in the great church of Naas in Mar. 1227. In October 1229 he was summoned to London, to accompany the King's expedition to Poitou and Gascony. He was appointed Justiciar of Ireland 2 (or 4) Sep. 1232. His good fame was damaged in 1234 by the report that it was he who (ultimately-because the wounded Earl was in his care) contrived the death of Richard (Marshal), Earl of Pembroke. In Feb. 1234/5 the King wrote criticizing Fitz Gerald's proceedings in office. He was several times summoned to England as Justiciar, to give counsel upon the affairs of Ireland.

In 1245 Sir Fitz Gerald laid the foundations of Sligo Castle. On 4 November of that year was superseded in office by the appointment of John Fitz Geoffrey. The King appears afterwards to have regretted the loss of a councilor saved by distance from partisanship on the sore question of his foreign favorites. In 1250 Fitz Gerald was a commissioner of the Treasury, and of the Council [I]. In Jan. and Feb. 1250/1, he was at Court in England. In Jan. 1253/4, he received an urgent summons from the King. He is said to have m. Juliane. He died in 1257, at the monastery of Youghal, which he had founded, and was buried there.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. X, (Offaly) pp. 14-16

• Background Information. ⁹⁹¹
Sir Maurice Fitz Gerald, according to the Earls of Kildare, page 5, married Juliana, daughter of John de Cogan, who was Lord Justice in 1247, and they had three sons, Maurice, third Baron, Gerald, father of Maurice, the fifth Baron, and Thomas, father of John, the first Earl of Kildare.

• Background Information. ¹³⁰⁰
The second Maurice Fitz Gerals was the son of Gerald and grandson of "Maurice the Invader." He married Juliana de Cogan, daughter of one of the original adventurers, Milo de Cogan.

~Barons, Rebels & Romantics: The Fitzgeralds First Thousand Years, p. 54

• Web Reference: Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly from Wikipedia.

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