Re: Robert Fitzgerald DeAdair-born 1366 in Limerick,Ireland
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Re: Robert Fitzgerald DeAdair-born 1366 in Limerick,Ireland
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Fitzgerald.
This is one of the great families which came to Ireland as part of the Anglo-Norman invasion.
The Fitzgeralds are all said to have descended from Maurice Fitzgerald who accompanied STRONGBOW on his invastion of Ireland in 1170.
The "Geraldines" settled in the two southern provinces of Leinster and Munster.
MAURICE FITZGERALD b.c.1130? d.1177 as mentioned above, was the son of Gerald of Windsor, constable of Pembroke in Wales, and Nesta, Princess of Wales.Nesta was the dau. of Thys ap Griffyd ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales.
Maurice Fitzgerald helped STRONGBOW secure Dublin for the English and in 1172 was appointed by Henry II, warden of the city under Hugh de Lacy.
In 1176 he was made a grant of the barony of Offaly and the territory of Offelan, comprising the present towns of Maynooth and Naas.He died 1177, the following Year. (From "The Noble Dwellings of Ireland" by John FitzMaurice Mills. p.131 - GLIN CASTLE, GLIN, co. LIMERICK
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