Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

Maurice FitzGerald
Earl of Desmond
Tenure	1356-1358
Predecessor	Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald
Successor	Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Died	1358
Buried	Tralee Abbey[1]
Nationality	Hiberno-Norman
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 at Castle Maine 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]

Ancestors of Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond

John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond Maurice FitzJohn FitzGerald Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Baron Desmond John de Cogan of Carrigaline Joan de Cogan Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond Lord Barry of Olethan Margaret de Barry Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond Richard Mór de Burgh, 1st Baron of Connaught Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster Egidia de Lacy, Lady of Connacht Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster John FitzGeoffrey Aveline Isabel Bigod Catherine de Burgh Count Arnold III of Guines Margaret de Guines

1. Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878.
2. Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204
3. 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. 187 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Maurice FitzGerald	Earl of Desmond 1st creation 1356–1358	Succeeded by Gerald FitzGerald