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about conditions in the country, and again in June 1265. These were the result of the private war between the
Geraldines and Walter de Burgh, lord of Connacht (who was later made the 1st Earl of Ulster). Maurice was appointed Justiciar of Ireland on 23 June 1272 following the accidental death of his
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Geraldines and the DeBurghs. Maurice FitzMaurice and his nephew John, son of his brother Thomas, captured the justiciar, Richard de la Rochelle, Theobald Butler IV, and John de Cogan I (whose son was married to Maurice FitzGerald III's sister, Juliana).
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say he was the eldest. Lord Walter FitzGerald says he was the second. In any event, he predeceased his father in 1243. His son, Maurice FitzGerald, drowned in the Irish
Channel in July 1268. His son was Gerald FitzMaurice III (born 1263). Gerald's marriage was sold to
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Juliana de Grenville. He had three brothers, Gerald fitz Maurice II (died 1243), Thomas fitz Maurice (died 1271), and David fitz Maurice (died without issue). Maurice was known by the nickname of
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