Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly (17 March 1242 – before 1273), was a

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- Irish noblewoman, the first wife of

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, and the mother of his two daughters,

Juliana FitzGerald Juliana FitzMaurice, Lady of Thomond (12 April 1263 – 29 September 1300) was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman, the daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, and the wife of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, a powerful Anglo-Norman baron ...

and Amabel. She married three times; Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly was her third husband.

Family

Maud was born in Ireland on 17 March 1242, the daughter of Sir Gerald de Prendergast of Beauvoir (died 1251), and his second wife, Matilda, daughter of

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and Egidia de Lacy. Burke, Bernard. "Prendergast Lineage",
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry
', Harrison, 1895, p. 773. Maud had an elder half-sister, Marie de Prendergast from her father's first marriage to Maud Walter. Marie was the wife of Sir John de Cogan by whom she had issue. Maud's paternal grandparents were Philip de Prendergast, Lord of

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of Leinster, and Maud de Quincy, a granddaughter of Strongbow, through the latter's illegitimate daughter Basilie de Clare who married Robert de Quincy,

of Leinster. Her great-grandfather, Maurice de Prendergast, Lord Prendergast had played a prominent part in the

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invasion of Ireland led by Strongbow, and was rewarded with much land in counties

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, Waterford, Tipperary, Mayo, Wicklow, and Cork.

Marriages and issue

When she was a young child, Maud was married to, firstly David FitzMaurice, who died by 17 March 1249, which was her seventh birthday; her second husband was Maurice de Rochford with whom she had issue. Between 1258 and 28 October 1259, following Maurice de Rochford's death which occurred sometime before May 1258, she married her third and last husband, Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly,

(1238–1286). He was the son of

Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly Maurice Fitzmaurice FitzGerald I, 2nd Lord of Offaly (c.1194 – 20 May 1257) was an Anglo-Norman peer, soldier, and Justiciar of Ireland from 1232 to 1245. He mustered many armies against the Irish, and due to his harsh methods as Justiciar, ...

and Juliana. Together Maurice and Maud had two daughters: * Juliana FitzMaurice (c.1263

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, Ireland - 24 September 1300), married firstly

Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond ( 1245Robin Frame (2005)"Clare, Thomas de (1244x7–1287), magnate and administrator" ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Retrieved 11 November 2018.29 August 1287) was an Anglo-Norman peer and soldie ...

, by whom she had four children; she married secondly Nicholas Avenel; she married thirdly Adam de Cretynges. * Amabel FitzMaurice, married, but was childless. Maud died on an unknown date. In 1273, her husband Maurice married his second wife, Emmeline Longespee (1252–1291) but fathered no children by her.Though genealogists have long placed Emmeline as mother of Juliana (e.g. ''The Complete Peerage'', Vol.VII, p.200), Emmeline married FitzGerald in 1273 when Juliana was already 10 years old, and her own heiress was Maud La Zouche, Baroness Holland, who was a granddaughter of her elder sister, Ela Longespee.

Ancestry

References

Sources

* The Complete Peerage, Vol. VII, p. 200 {{DEFAULTSORT:Maud De Prendergast, Lady Of Offaly 1242 births 13th-century deaths 13th-century Irish women FitzGerald dynasty 13th-century Irish people People from County Offaly