Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

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Maurice FitzGerald
Earl of Desmond
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Tenure1356-1358
PredecessorMaurice FitzThomas FitzGerald
SuccessorGerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Died1358
BuriedTralee Abbey[1]
NationalityHiberno-Norman
Spouse(s)Beatrice de Stafford
Issueunnamed daughter who married Domnall Óg Mac Cárthaigh Mór[1]
ParentsMaurice FitzThomas FitzGerald
Margarete De Barry
Norman Ireland, showing the Earldom of Desmond in the southwest

Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond (d. 1358) (Maurice Óg) was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond,[2][3] and his first wife, Catherine de Burgh. (Some sources list her as Margaret.)[1]

The 2nd Earl married Beatrice de Stafford, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret Audley, but died without any male issue, and was therefore succeeded in the Earldom of Desmond by his half-brother Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond.[1][2][3] FitzGerald's widow married Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros around a year after FitzGerald's death.[4] He was buried in Tralee Abbey.[5]


  1. ^ a b c d Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878.
  2. ^ a b Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204
  3. ^ a b Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Volume III. London: George Bell & Sons. 1890. p. 83
  4. ^ Cokayne, G. E. (1910). White, G. H. (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom by George E. Cokayne, ,. London: The St. Catherine's Press. p. 101.
  5. ^ Ireland and her people; a library of Irish biography, (Thomas W. H. Fitzgerald, ed.), Fitzgerald Book Company, 1910, p. 187Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Desmond
1st creation
1356–1358 		Succeeded by
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