Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

Maurice FitzGerald
Died 1358
Resting place Tralee Abbey[1]
Title Earl of Desmond
Tenure 1356-1358
Nationality Hiberno-Norman
Predecessor Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald
Successor Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Spouse(s) Beatrice de Stafford
Issue unnamed daughter who married Domnall Óg Mac Cárthaigh Mór[1]
Parents Maurice 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]


  1. 1 2 3 4 Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878.
  2. 1 2 Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204
  3. 1 2 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.
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
Maurice FitzGerald		 Earl of Desmond
1st creation
1356–1358		 Succeeded by
Gerald FitzGerald
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