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 240 DESMOND his wife. She d. about i Nov. 133 1, at Dublin. (*) He is said to have m.^ 2ndly, Margaret, da. of Conor O'Brien of Thomond.('') He w., 3rdly, before 20 Apr. I344,Q Aveline, said to have been da. of Nicholas fitz MoRiCE of Kerry.C^) He ^.25 Jan. 1355/6, in Dublin Castle, and was bur. in the Dominican Friary at Tralee.(*) His widow had livery of her dower, 10 Feb. 1357/8. (') She was living 14 Mar. 1358/9. («) p. 341). "Mcccxiii. In Natali Domini dominus Mauricius filius Thome duxit ad domum uxorem suam Katerinam filiam Ricardi comitis Ultonie." (Clyn, p. 11). "Katerina uxor Mauricii filii Thome" occurs i8 Jan. 1317/8. (Patent Roll .l, 1 1 Edw. II, p. 2, no. 76). By his charter, dated at Athassel, 12 Jan. 16 Edw. II, Richard dc Burgh, Earl of Ulster and Lord of Connaught, granted divers lands and tenements to the Lord Morice fitz Thomas and Katherine his wife. (Copy in Carew MSS., vol. 608, f. 26v). In spite of this conclusive evidence, Irish genealogists agree in calling Katherine de Burgh " Margaret," reserving the name Katherine for her sister, the Countess of Louth, whose name was really Aveline. (*) " Mcccxxxi. Circa festum Omnium Sanctorum obiit Dublinie Katerina de Burgo uxor Mauricii filii Thome." (Clyn, p. 24). C") Conchobhar O'Briain (a yr. son of Turlough or Toirdhelbhach, King of Thomond), who was slain in battle at Thurles, 19 July 1329. (<=) Patent Roll, I 8 Edw. III,/. ,m. 17. (•*) If this was the case, Aveline was sister of Morice fitz Nicholas of Kerry, who, joining in an insurrection of the Irish in 1339, was captured by the Earl, and died in prison. See Kerry. C) "McccLV. In die Conversionis sancti Pauli obiit idem dominus Mauricius filius Thome in castro Dublin', Justiciarius Hibernie, non sine magno suorum merore et aliorum omnium pacem diligentium, Hibernicorum terrore et tremore. Primo sepultus in choro Predicatorum Dublin', ultimo humatus in conventu Predicatorum Traly. Hie Justus erat in officio in tantum quod suspendebat suos consanguineos pro furto et rapina et malefactis eorum sicut alienos, et bene castigans Hibernicos." {Annali of Ireland, p. 392). "... die lune in festo Conversionis sancti Pauli . . . obiit in civitate Dublinie." (Memorandum in Cal. Eccl. Cath. S. Trinitatis Dublin, p. 61). For some observations on the entail of the Desmond lands in 1342/3, see Appendix J to this volume. (') Also of the manors of Kilfeakle and Kilsheelan, and the vill of Clonmel, CO. Tipperary, of the gift of Piers de Grandson, and the manor of Rathmaceandan, of the gift of Miles Ketyng, of which she had been jointly enfeoffed with the Earl, formerly her husband, in fee tail. {Close Roll [I.], 32 Edw. Ill, p. 2, d, nos. 66, 67, 78). (s) Close Roll [I.], 33 Edw. Ill, d, no. 93. On the English Close and Patent Rolls, 39 to 46 Edward III, there are six writs concerning the manor of Rathkeale, CO. Limerick, said to be held of the Countess of Desmond, and one in 49 Edw. Ill, in which [reciting a writ of 2 Dec. 48 Edw. Ill] the manor is said to have been formerly held of the late Countess, but was then held of the Earl [Gerald], her s. and h. There is here some confusion between two Countesses of Desmond. By an Inq., taken before Gerald Fitz Morice, Earl of Desmond, Justiciar of Ireland, and others, Friday after Trinity 41 Edw. Ill, it was found that the manor of Rathkeale was then held " de Thoma de Roos milite et Beatrice uxore ejus ut de manerio suo de Inskyfty ut de jure ipsius Beatricis ad terminum vite ejusdem Beatricis reversione diet! manerii de Inskyfty post mortem ipsius Beatricis ad Geraldum Comitem Desmond' et heredes suos spectante." This evidence seems conclusive. Cf. note "b," p. 242,