Cook Family Ancestry Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald 2nd Earl of Desmond [12427] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Lord Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald Baron of Decies [10640]
(1261-1298)

Margaret de Berkeley [10641]

Richard the Red Earl de Burgh 3rd Earl of Ulster [8890]
(-1326)

Margaret de Burgh [8891]
(-1303)

Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald 1st Earl of Desmond [12428]
(1293-1356)

Katherine de Burgh [12459]
(Abt 1296-1331)

Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald 2nd Earl of Desmond [12427]
(1336-1358)

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Spouses/Children:
Lady Beatrice de Stafford Countess Desmond [8819]

Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald 2nd Earl of Desmond [12427] ²⁴

Born: 31 Jul 1336, Newcastle, Connello, Limerick
Christened: 1 Aug 1336, Newcastle, Connello, Limerick
Marriage: Lady Beatrice de Stafford Countess Desmond [8819] in 1350
Buried: 1358

bullet Cause of his death was drowned crossing Irish Sea.

bullet General Notes:

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal08900
Lord of Decies. Some say died 1359. The Complete Peerage vol.IV,pp.241-242.
Source dispute who is Maurice's mother. See note a CP,IV,p.242.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 1356.

Maurice married Lady Beatrice de Stafford Countess Desmond [8819] [MRIN: 5738], daughter of Ralph de Stafford 1st Earl Stafford [8815] and Margaret de Audley Baroness Audley [8800], in 1350. (Lady Beatrice de Stafford Countess Desmond [8819] was born about 1340 in Tunbridge, Stafford, England and died on 13 Apr 1415.)

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Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald 2nd Earl of Desmond [12427] ²⁴