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Birth:          17 Mar 1242 
Death:          BEF 1273 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_de_Prendergast
Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly (17 March 1242 – before 1273), was a Norman-
Irish noblewoman, the first wife of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Justiciar of 
Ireland, and the mother of his two daughters, Juliana FitzGerald and Amabel.[1] Maud 
was a descendant of Strongbow, the Irish kings of Leinster and Thomond, and Brian 
Boru. Her own descendants included most of the medieval noble families of England. 
She married three times; Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly was her third husband.
Family[edit]

Maud was born in Ireland on 17 March 1242, the daughter of Sir Gerald de 
Prendergast of Beauvoir (died 1251), and his second wife, who was one of the 
daughters of Richard Mor de Burgh and Egidia de Lacy.

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 Enniscorthy, 
Constable of Leinster, and Maud de Quincy, a granddaughter of Strongbow, through 
the latter's illegitimate daughter Basilie de Clare who married Robert de Quincy, 
Constable of Leinster. Her great-grandfather, Maurice de Prendergast, Lord 
Prendergast had played a prominent part in the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland led 
by Strongbow, and was rewarded with much land in counties Wexford, Waterford, 
Tipperary, Mayo, Wicklow, and Cork. Her maternal great-grandparents were William de 
Burgh and Mór O'Brien; Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim and Margaret de Braose.

Marriages and issue[edit]

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. 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, Justiciar of Ireland (1238–1286). He 
was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly and Juliana.

Together Maurice and Maud had two daughters:
Juliana FitzGerald (c.1263 Dublin, Ireland - 24 September 1300), married firstly 
Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, by whom she had four children; she married 
secondly Nicholas Avenel; she married thirdly Adam de Cretynges.
Amabel FitzGerald, 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.[2]

Maud de Prendergast was an ancestress of most of the medieval noble families of 
England; through Elizabeth of York the current British royal family descends from her. 
Henry VIII's queens consort Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and 
Catherine Parr[3] were four of her many notable descendants.

Parents
DE PRENDERGAST Gerald ()
DE BURGH ----- ()

Siblings
DE PRENDERGAST Maud (17 Mar 1242 - BEF 1273)

Marriage To FITZ GERALD Maurice (1238 - BEF 10 Nov 1286)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ GERALD Maurice (1194 - 20 May 1257)
DE COGAN Johanna or Juliana (1190 - )

Children by FITZ GERALD Maurice 1238 - BEF 10 Nov 1286
FITZ GERALD Juliana (12 Apr 1266 - 29 Sep 1300)

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