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Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare

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was recorded in 1349. It records that he was the son of Bartholomew de Burghersh and that his heir was his brother Bartholomew, son of Bartholomew de Burghersh, aged 26 years and more. If this younger Bartholomew was aged 26 or more in 1349, he cannot have had a daughter who married Maurice Fitzgerald in 1347.
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and his wife Elizabeth de Verdun, one of the heiresses of Theobald de Verdun, 2nd Baron Verdon. His wife is widely noted as being called Elizabeth. It is very clear that her father was Bartholomew Burghersh the elder. The reason we can be so certain is that her brother Henry's Inquisition Post Mortem
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In 1347 he was present with Edward III at the siege and capture of Calais (CLYN, Annals, p.34). He was then knighted by the king, and married to a daughter of Sir Bartholomew Burghersh (GRACE, Annals, p.143). ...By his wife, Elizabeth Burghersh, he left four
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1347. The Earl of Kildare, with barons and knights, goes to the king to the siege of Calais, which was surrendered to him on the 4th of June. ...Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Kildare, is knighted by the king, and marries the daughter of Sir Bartholomew
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The Annales Hiberniae record that in 1347, after having been with the King at the siege of Calais, which was surrendered on 4 June, Maurice Fitz Thomas, Earl of Kildare was knighted by the King, and married to the daughter of Sir
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and elsewhere, and in resisting rebels all at his own expense. His reward came partly in the form of a grant, dated 20 April 1386, of the estate of Sir William de London in the counties of
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against rebel Irish, the earl was appointed, on 14 September 1358, supervisor of the four commissioners for raising and collecting their pay from that county.
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Bartholomew de Burgherssh his brother, aged 26 years and more is his heir. C. Edw. III. File 99. (7.), E. Enrolments &c. of Inq. No. 68.
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On 29 May 1390, a Writ was issued to him to remove O'Connor, son of Dough O'Dempsie, the King's Irish enemy currently detained in
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He died on Monday before St. Martin, 22 Edward III. , son of Bartholomew de Burgherssh, aged 26 years and more is his heir
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of the realm again on 22 March 1371, and a third time on 16 February 1375, until the return of Sir William Windsor.
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6th Earl of Kildare; on his brother's death he failed to take possession of the Earldom, but was the father of
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during the minority of his son and heir, John de London. On 5 August 1389 he was enfeoffed in the manors of
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where he proceeded in May with thirty men-at-arms and was subsequently made leader of the army, and
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He died at an advanced age in 1390, and was interred in the Church of the Holy Trinity, now
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In 1364 he headed a delegation of Irish nobles and officials to complain directly to King
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Maurice, Earl of Kildare, suppressed the insurrection in 1339 of the O'Dempsies in
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Joanne, who married Donal MacCarthy Reagh, 5th Prince of Carbery.
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With various irregulars and foot-soldiers assigned to defend
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that he had, at his request, accompanied the Lord Justice,
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Henry de Burgherssh. Writ, 29 January, 23 Edward III
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with an annual salary of £500 sterling. He was made
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Peerage of Ireland
Lord Justice of Ireland
Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare
Richard de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Leinster
Eltham Palace
Edward III
Calais
knighted
County Kildare
Lord Justice of Ireland
Edward III
corruption
Thomas de Burley
Lord Chancellor of Ireland
Richard II
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond
Exchequer of Ireland
Parliament
Castledermot
Trim
Dublin
John Cruys
Sir Philip Courtenay
Leinster
Merthyr
Kildare
Meath
Lucan
County Dublin

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