Gerald fitz Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1204)

Events

Date of Birth: possibly as late as 1150.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:13).

Date of Death: shortly before 15 January 1203/4.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (10:13) and by Flanagan (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1176).

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:13).

Mother: unknown.

The Complete Peerage (10:13) notes that Gerald was probably the eldest son of his father’s second marriage. The name of neither wife is known.

Spouse: Eva (died about 1225), daughter of Robert of Bermingham.

This relationship is given by Flanagan (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (10:13).

Children:

Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1257) married Juliana.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Gerald FitzMaurice” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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).

Flanagan, M.T. “Fitzgerald, Gerald fitz Maurice (d. 1204)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Smith, B. “Fitzgerald, Maurice (c. 1194-1257)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, January 2011).