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Fitzgerald ii. 170, No. 1139; Loch Cé, p. 473). He is said on this occasion to have been aided by Theobald Butler (, from Earls of Kildare, p. 16; but cf. , ed. 1705, pp. 57-8). Fitzgerald was summoned to England in 1262, and in 1264 was ordered to secure for the young Earl of Gloucester seisin of his Irish lands. The new justiciar, Richard de Rochelle (1261-c. May 1265), was at feud with the Geraldines, and within a short time the island was in arms (, p. 16; p. 77;, p. 37; , ii. 401-402;, p. 8; Earls of Kildare, p. 16). The quarrel extended to the De Burghs, and in 1264 Maurice took the justiciar Theobald Butler and John Cogan prisoners, and incarcerated the former at his castle of Leigh (Annals of Ireland, ii. 290;, p. 37; Book of Howth, p. 323). With the justiciar it is said that Walter de Burgh, earl of Ulster, was also taken (Earls of Kildare, p. 16). But this statement seems due to a confusion with the reported action in 1294 of Fitzgerald's nephew, John Fitzthomas, first earl of Kildare [q. v.] Next year he and his nephew, Maurice Fitzgerald [see , d. 1257, ad fin.], on whose behalf the feud with the De Burghs may have originated, received royal letters exhorting them to peace; in April 1266 he was twice granted letters of protection to England (, Nos. 727, 795, 798). About August 1272 he was appointed justiciar of Ireland in the place of James Audeley. On Henry III's death he was renewed in the office and received the oaths of succession from the Irish nobles to the new king. About August 1273 he was supplanted by Geoffrey de Geneville (ib. vol. ii. Nos. 924, 927, &c.;, ii. 2). According to the Earl of Kildare, quoting from Ware, in 1273 'he invaded Offaly, but was betrayed by his own people into the hands of the O'Conors' (Earls of Kildare, p. 16, but cf. , p. 57). With this may be connected a later statement that about 23 Aug. 1273 he was deprived of part of the barony of Offaly. But this story seems altogether erroneous. Fitzmaurice, although often reckoned one of the Barons Offaly, never held the barony, which passed on his father's death in 1257 to his nephew (son of his elder brother Gerald) Maurice (d. 1268), and thence to Maurice's eon Gerald Fitzmaurice. The latter Gerald was attacked by the native Irish in 1285, and it is probably this incident which has found its way disguisedly into our Fitzmaurice's biography [see, d. 1257 ? ad fin.] An entry in the Irish treasury accounts of 1276-7 shows that he led an expedition to Glendory (Glenmalure, co. Wicklow). On 24 July 1276 he was ordered to England to do fealty for his wife's inheritance (, ii. 258, Nos. 1249, 1321-2; cf. , p. 9; Cox, p. 73). Later in the same year (1277) he accompanied his son-in-law against Brian Ruadh O'Brien, king of Thomond. Brian was taken prisoner and beheaded; but a little later the two kinsmen were besieged in Slow-Banny, and reduced to such straits that they had to give hostages for their lives and yield up the castle of Roscommon (, ii. 406;, p. 58; Cox, p. 73; Earls of Kildare, pp. 16, 17; cf. Loch Cé, i. 481; Annals of Ireland, p. 318). Maurice is said to have died shortly after (1277) at Ross (Earls of Kildare, p. 17; cf. S, vol. ii. No. 1527). Maurice Fitzmaurice married Emelina, daughter and heiress of Emelina de Riddlesford, the wife of Hugh de Lacy (d. 1242), and Stephen Longsword (''Abbrev. Plac''. p. 227;, vol. ii. No. 1249,vol. iii. No. 1028;, Monast. vi. 443;, iv. 232). This Emelina was probably born c. 1252 A.D. (Cal. Gen. i. 236). He is wrongly said to have been succeeded by a son Gerald Fitzmaurice, an assertion due to a confusion noted under (d. 1257?) (Earls of Kildare, p. 18;, ii. 47; cf. , p. 10). He left two daughters : (1) Juliana, who married Thomas de Clare (d. 1286), brother of Gilbert de Clare, earl of Gloucester, and, secondly, Adam de Cretinge (Cal. Gen. i. 448, ii. 431;, vol. ii. No. 2210, vol. iii. Nos. 940, 1142;, p. 40); (2) Amabilia, who seems to have died unmarried, and to have enfeoffed her cousin, John Fitzthomas [q. v.], of part of her estates (, vol. iii. No. 940; Earls of Kildare, p. 17). In the complicated genealogy of the Geraldines, some of the entries ascribed to this Maurice Fitzmaurice properly belong to his nephew (d. 1268), who is noticed under (1194 ?-1257). [See authorities cited in text. For editions and value of the various chroniclers see .]  FITZGERALD, MAURICE, first . [See, d. 1356.]

FITZGERALD, MAURICE, fourth (1318–1390), justiciar of Ireland, born in 1318, was the youngest son of Thomas Fitzgerald, the second earl [q. v.], and his wife, Joan de Burgh, and was generally called Maurice Fitzthomas. He lost his father in 1328, and became earl on his brother Earl Richard's death in 1331. His lands re-