Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1251.
Place of Death: unknown.
Gerald’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:no 254; CDRI 1171-1251 no. 3203) is dated in the Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland “1251, Oct. 28, to 1251-2, March 17.”
Relationships
Father: Philip de Prendergast.
This relationship is given by Orpen (3:118). It is recorded in a contemporary deed recorded in 1595 and translated in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (n.s. v.5, pp. 147-148 note).
Mother: Maud de Quency.
This relationship is given by Orpen (1:391). It is recorded in a contemporary deed recorded in 1595 and translated in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (n.s. v.5, pp. 147-148 note).
Spouse: the sister of Theobald Butler.
This relationship is recorded in Gerald’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:no 254; CDRI 1171-1251 no. 3203).
Spouse: a daughter of Richard de Burgh. Married in or before 1240.
This relationship is given by Orpen (3:210) and by the Complete Peerage (12B:171 fn f). It is recorded in Gerald’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:no 254; CDRI 1171-1251 no. 3203).
Children (by his first wife):
Mary de Prendergast married John de Cogan.
Children (by his second wife):
Matilda de Prendergast (about 17 March 1241/2 - 1273 or before) married Maurice fitz Maurice Fitzgerald.
References
Calendar of Documents Relating to Ireland Preserved in Her Majesty’s Public Record Office, London 1171-1251 (H.S. Sweetman, ed.) (London: Longman, 1875).
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume 1. Henry III. (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1904).
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).
Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1169-1216 vol. 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911).
Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1216-1333 vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920, reprinted 1968).
Prendergast, John P. “An Ancient Record Relating to the Families into which Married the Co-heiresses of Thomas fitz Anthony, seneschal of Leinster” in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland new series, volume 5 (1864-1866). pp. 140 - 153.