Matilda de Prendergast

Events

Date of Birth: about 17 March 1241/2.

Place of Birth: unknown.

In her father’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:no 254; CDRI 1171-1251 no. 3203), it is stated that Matilda (who isn’t named) will be 10 at the feast of St. Patrick in Lent, 36 Hen. III.

Date of Death: by 1273.

Place of Death: unknown.

Matilda’s husband remarried in 1273.

Relationships

Father: Gerald de Prendergast.

This relationship is given by Orpen (3:199), by Brooks (p. 139), and by Frame (ODNB).

Mother: a daughter of Richard de Burgh.

This relationship is given in Gerald’s inquisition post mortem (CIPM 1:no 254; CDRI 1171-1251 no. 3203). It is given by Brooks (p. 138).

Spouse: David fitz Maurice (died before 17 March 1249).

This relationship is given by Orpen (3:199).

Spouse: Maurice de Rochford (died before May 1258). Married 1252.

This relationship is given by Orpen (3:199) and by Brooks (p. 139).

Spouse: Maurice fitz Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1286).

This relationship is given by Orpen (3:199), by Brooks (p. 139), and by Frame (ODNB). It is recorded in a letter from Pope Alexander IV to the Bishop of Cloyne (Theiner, no. ccxi).

Children:

(possibly) Patrick (died 1277). [Frame notes that there is no confirmation of his existence.]

Juliana married Thomas de Clare.

Amabilia.

References

Brooks, Eric St. John. Knights’ Fees in Counties Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny, 13th-15th century: with commentary (1950).

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).

Frame, Robin. “Fitzgerald, Maurice fitz Maurice (d. 1286)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005).

Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1216-1333 vol. 3 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1920, reprinted 1968).

Theiner, Augustin (ed.). Vetera monumenta Hibernorum et Scotorum (Rome: Typis Vaticanus, 1864).