Maud de Quency

Events

Date of Birth: about 1172.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Maud's parents were married in 1171 and her father was killed in 1172.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Robert de Quency.

This relationship is given by Orpen (1:391) and by Brooks (p. 130). Crouch gives Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, which may be correct.

Mother: a daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare, 2nd earl of Pembroke.

Orpen (1:391) states that Maud was Robert’s daughter by a daughter of Strongbow. Orpen cites (1:323 note) the Annals of Innisfallen that Robert de Quincy was a son-in-law of the earl of Striguil. The Complete Peerage (10 appendix H, p. 103) states that a daughter of Richard, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, married Robert de Quenci, constable of Leinster, in 1171. It further states that Robert was slain shortly after, leaving an infant daughter. Some sources give her name as Basilea, but the Complete Peerage (10 appendix H, pp. 100-101) explains that this is an error. She may have been named Aline. Crouch makes Maud rather than her mother the daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.

Spouse: Philip de Prendergast. Married about 1190.

This relationship is given by Orpen (1:391) and by Brooks (p. 130). 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).

Children:

Gerald de Prendergast (died 1251) married (1) the sister of Theobald Butler; married (2) a daughter of Richard de Burgh.

David de Prendergast

References

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

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).

Crouch, David. William Marshal. (3rd. ed. Routledge, 2016).

Orpen, Goddard Henry. Ireland under the Normans: 1169-1216 vol. 1, vol. 2 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1911).

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.