Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond
# Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond (d. 1358) (Maurice Óg) was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his first wife, Catherine de Burgh. (Some sources list her as Margaret.)

The 2nd Earl married Beatrice de Stafford, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret Audley, but died at Castle Maine without any male issue, and was therefore succeeded in the Earldom of Desmond by his half-brother Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond. FitzGerald's widow married Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros around a year after FitzGerald's death. He was buried in Tralee Abbey.

Ancestors of Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond :

* 1 2 3 4 Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878.
* 1 2 Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204
* 1 2 Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Volume III. London: George Bell & Sons. 1890. p. 83
* ↑ Cokayne, G. E. (1910). White, G. H. (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom by George E. Cokayne. London: The St. Catherine's Press. p. 101.
* ↑ Ireland and her people; a library of Irish biography, (Thomas W. H. Fitzgerald, ed.), Fitzgerald Book Company, 1910, p. 187 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Peerage of Ireland :

| Preceded byMaurice FitzGerald | Earl of Desmond 1st creation 1356–1358 | Succeeded byGerald FitzGerald |
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