Also known as Muiris Mael.
Justiciar of Ireland
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1286, by November.
This date is given by Frame (ODNB).
Relationships
Father: Maurice Fitzgerald (died 1257), justiciar, baron of Offaly.
This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:200).
Mother: Juliana.
This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB) and by the Complete Peerage (7:200).
Spouse: Matilda, daughter of Gerald de Prendergast.
This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB).
Spouse: Emeline, daughter of Stephen Longespée.
This relationship is given by Frame (ODNB).
Children (by Matilda):
(possibly) Patrick (died 1277). [Frame notes that there is no confirmation of his existence.]
Juliana married Thomas de Clare.
Amabilia.
References
Cawley, Charles. “Maurice 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).
Frame, Robin. “Fitzgerald, Maurice fitz Maurice (d. 1286)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005).
Frame, Robin. “Clare, Thomas de (1244x7-1287)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, October 2005).
Phillips, Chris. “Some corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage.”