John fitzMaurice fitzNicholas, 5th Lord Kerry

• Updated from MyHeritage Match via sister Margaret Maccarthy (born Fitz Maurice) by SmartCopy: Oct 10 2014, 16:19:36 UTC

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John fitz Nicholas, 4th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw was the son of Nicholas fitz Maurice, 2nd Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw and Slany O'Brien.1 He married, firstly, Honor O'Brien, daughter of unknown O'Brien of Thomond.2 He married, secondly, Elinor fitz Gerald, daughter of Gerald fitz Pierce.2 He died circa 1378.2

    He succeeded to the title of 4th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw [I., c. 1295] in October 1339.1 On 10 July 1370 he was taken near Limerick by O'Biren and McCarthy, along with the Earl of Desmond and other nobles.2 He was invested as a Knight before 1374.3 In August 1375 he was ordered by the King to arrest his son, Maurice FitzJohn, after Maurice seized the goods of a Bristol merchant at Tralee.2 Children of John fitz Nicholas, 4th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw and Elinor fitz Gerald

   Garrett fitz Nicholas3

   Robert fitz Nicholas3

Child of John fitz Nicholas, 4th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw and Honor O'Brien

   Maurice fitz John fitz Nicholas, 5th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw+2 d. c 1398

Citations

   [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 204. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

   [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 205.

   [S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2238. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]

Source: http://www.thepeerage.com/p15484.htm#i154835

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John fitzMaurice fitzNicholas, 5th Baron of Kerry

(Died A.D. 1348 or 1378) Son of Sir Nicholas fitzMaurice fitzThomas 3rd Baron of Kerry) Summoned to Parliament 48 Edward III79 in 1375.218

John (5th Baron) married firstly Honor, daughter of O'Brien of Thomond, and had a son79, (1) Maurice (6th Baron)

John married secondly Elenor, daughter of Garrett FitzPierce of Bally McEquim and xad two sons: (2) Gerald (Garrett) FitzMaurice, ancestor of the FitzMaurice family of Duagh. (3) Robert FitzMaurice

Duagh (formerly called Duaghnafealla52) is in Co. Kerry near the border of Co. Limerick. Garrett succeeded his father in these estates in 1358 but records for the following 200 years were destroyed52 during the various wars between the Irish and the English. The next male descendant for whom a record has been found was

James McMorrish52, who was living in 1550.

This James had a son: Edmund McMorrish52, who took part in the Desmond war. He was attainted April 26, 1579. His estates were seized and sold upon his death in battle against the English in 1586.52

Edmond McMorrish (d. 1586) had two sons52:

   Shane MacEdmond McMorrish. [Note: "Shane" = "Seán" = "John"]

   Ulick [a diminutive of Uilliam, the Irish equivalent of William] 

Shane McMorrish may have been killed in the Desmond war. He married and left a son52: Thomas MacShane FitzMaurice of Duagh, who was pardoned in 1603 and to whom the estates were restored in 1612.

This Thomas married Catherine, daughter of Edward Trant of Fenit, Co. Kerry, and had issue, including52 Garrett FitzMaurice (d. 1628), whose eldest son was Ulick FitzMaurice of Duagh (d. 1682).

This Ulick had five sons52. The eldest was Henry FitzMaurice of Duagh who had his estates confiscated in 1691 because James FitzMaurice, a near relative of Henry, took part in the war against William III.

Source: http://www.fitzmaurice.info/irish.html