William Fitzwilliam Fitzgerald

• Preferred Name: William Fitzwilliam Fitzgerald^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]}
  
• Alternate Name: William FitzWilliam FitzGerald
  
• Gender: M
  
• Christening: ABT 1155 with note: (21-1194) Not sure what this is supposed to be? So I am just guessing that 1194 is supposed to be the year he was Christened. Not sure but can't completely delete this out. Can't really standardize if you don't know what this means. Can anyone help clear this up?
  
• Death: ABT 1199 in Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
  
• Birth: in Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305 with note: William Fitzwilliam Gerard, I Lord of Kingsley, Circa 1215 - Circa 1260 -- Note: William Fitzwilliam Gerard, I Lord of Kingsley was born circa 1215, at birth place, to William de Clare (born FitzWilliam FitzGerald). William was born circa 1160, in Eyre, Cheshire, England. William married Emma Gerard (born de Kingsley). Emma was born in Kingsley, Runcon, Cheshire, England. They had 2 sons: William Gerard II of Kingsley and one other child. William passed away circa 1260, at age 45 at death place.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 3rd Baron of Nass with note: It was here by his name.
  
• Occupation: Justice in Eyre, Cheshire, , England at LATI: N3.1827 LONG: E2.5305
  
• FSID: LZ1J-FY5
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  William II FitzWilliam, Baron of Nass bef 1199
  s/o Wiliam I FitzMaurice, Baron of Nass & Aline Clare
  b- - Naas, Kildare, Ireland
  m- 1220- Eva, widow of Philip Braoise
  m- Mauhaut Pont l'Arche (or she was the only wife & married 1st Philip Braoise )
  d- 1227 - Naas, County Kidare, Ireland
  
  1200 - founded NAAS an Augustine Priory, Kildare, Ireland
  1226 - had grant of a fair in Naas
  
  1205 - Charter - Thomas a/o John Hereford -to- WILLIAM s/o William, Baron of Naas
  for his homage & service - the whole land which was in contention between them - the grantors land of Adchonlasty & grants land of Thalachitpir - he has also given all his common lands to said WILLIAM
  
  1205 - Charter - Henry Hereford - to WILLIAM s/o William, Baron of Naas - the grantor's wwod of Othimmy, except Chuch, for all his buildings of Osberts town to hold to him & his heirs
  
  1209 -Charter - William Brewys (Braoise) by assent of his wife & of William his son -to - WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, for his homage & service - 5 knts fees in Karakytel & Kylderum to hosl to him & his heirs
  
  12 Sept 1220 - William , Baron of Naas & Eve his wife - paid fine for having dower in manor of Grene, which pertains to EVA, of the free tenement, formerly of PHILIP Braoise, her former husband, in Ireland (he was s/o William Broaise & Matilda St Valery)
  
  1225 - Charter - WILLIAM Baron of Naas, by assnet of Mahaut Pont de l'arch, his wife & DAVID his son & heir - has given to MAURICE his son, for his homage & service, 5 knts fees in Karakytell, Kyldrum, That Maurice & his heirs will hold freely & quietly

1. Title: Book - General & Heradric Dictionary of Peerage of England, Ireland
   
2. Title: Is William Gerard (husband of Emma de Kingsley) descended from the FitzGerald family? Uncertain / Unproven
   Author: The Ancestor: English Counts of the Empire, Gerard of Bryn, Vol 7, Oct 1903, p 22-24 https://books.google.com/books?id=IqFJAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA22#v=onepage History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, by George Ormerod, vol 2, p 60-62 (starts on p 61) https://books.google.com/books?id=7kEjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA60#v=onepage
   Note: I certainly don't claim to know what is correct here. There appears to be no evidence/proof that William Gerard, husband of Emma, was descended from the FitzGeralds. There is some evidence/proof that he was not descended from the FitzGeralds, but actually descended from another family. Maybe more information will surface in the future, but for now this is about all we know. Following is information from 2 sources, The Ancestor & Ormerod, that reference this question: The Ancestor, vol 7, p 22 Take, for instance, the arms borne by Lord Gerard with the full sanction, as we learn from Armorial Families, of the Heralds' College. It has long been well recognized that, at some period in its history, the ancient house of Gerard of Bryn, dazzled by the splendour of that Irish race of which I have spoken in the Ancestor, discarded its own pedigree and arms (though the latter continued to be used by other branches of the family) and annexed the coat of FitzGerald together with that family's descent. Reference to Burke's Peerage will show that Lord Gerard is assigned a common ancestor with the Dukes of Leinster in Ireland, and is indeed derived from William, an alleged younger brother of Odo de Carrew. Under ‘Leinster’ we similarly read that their father William FitzGerald was ‘ancestor of the families of Carew . . . and Gerard.’ Lord Gerard accordingly bears, according to the same work, the undifferenced arms of the Duke of Leinster, ‘Arg. a saltire gu.' In 1741 Wootton's Baronetage traced the descent of Gerard of Bryn from the above William on the authority of a pedigree in the possession of the family itself, but even so early as 1635 Randle Holme had ‘met with very auntient deedes to sattisfie any’ that the descent from ‘Gerard FitzWalter of Windsor is a false pretence’, and Ormerod printed one of these deeds as disproof absolute of that alleged descent. A further deed disproving it was printed in Helsby's edition of his work (1882), where the question was further investigated. It is now certain that the founder of Lord Gerard's family was William FitzGerard (or Gerrard) who obtained lands in Kingsley, Cheshire, by marrying Emma, daughter and coheiress of Richard de Kingsley. This William, who lived temp. Henry III., has been thrown back by the pedigreemakers to an earlier date in order to make him a brother of Odo de Carrew, and in Burke's Peerage his wife Emma has been further converted into ‘Katherine daughter of Adam de Kingsley' and made the wife of his alleged father William FitzGerald! The true arms of the Gerards were altogether different from those of the house of FitzGerald, and were allowed to the Crewood branch in 1613 as ‘Az, a lion rampant erm. ducally crowned or; over all a bend gu.' It has been asserted that, as Gerard of Bryn disregarded the Heralds' visitations till 1665, we have no evidence until that year of their bearing the arms of FitzGerald. But in the funeral certificate of Sir Thomas Gerard (d. 15 May, 1630) taken 15 Jan. 1637:8 by Randle Holme, ‘deputy to the Office of Armes,’ and signed by the deceased's son, we find the first coat on his escutcheon given as ‘Argent, a saltire gules.’ And even in that of ‘Sir Thomas Gerard of the Bryne’ (bur. 12 Oct. 1601) we find it already appearing and indeed alleged to be shown on stained glass at Bryn of 1518. The amazing usurpation by the Gerards of the famous Irish coat is thus, we see, carried back far into Tudor times. ‘We must remember,’ however, Mr. Phillimore reminds us, ‘that an individual cannot create for himself an estate of inheritance in the bogus arms he or his ancestors have assumed.’ But the case of Gerard shows us that the heralds contradict him in this flatly. In the Paul case we have a usurpation of a particularly glaring kind, which must have been sanctioned by the college at some time or other in the past, for, according to Armorial Families, it is now recognized as rightful. Of such proceedings we can only say, in the words of the Preface to The Landed Gentry (1898): Unfortunately, the laws of arms have been, in these later days, very frequently set at nought, and the well-known ensigns of our historic families have been assumed by strangers in blood, if not in name, though by their own act they have but erected a permanent memorial to the obscurity of their origin. Ormerod, p 61 Having thus deduced the descent of Crewood from William Gerard, the husband of Emma de Kingsley, it remains to speak of the family itself, which the pedigrees have uniformly referred to the stock of Walter Fitzother, Castellan of Windsor, and keeper of the Berkshire forests at the Conquest. A pedigree preserved at Toft, deduces the descent in this manner; but is thus corrected by the following coarse indorsement on the rough draught of a pedigree, made by Randle Holme, and existing among the Harl. MSS. 2119. 212. "This made for Mr. Gerard, of Crewood, 1635. "Whereas the Gerards of CrewWood and others derive themselves from the withinsayd Gerard Fitz Walter, of Windsor, and I made the pedigree for Mr. Gerard, of Crewwood, accordinge to the same. But synce I have mett with very auntient deedes to sattisfie any that the other is a false p'tence, for they be descended of the barons of Montealto, lords of Hawardyn, as is by the deeds made manyfest, and had land in Hawardyn from about king John's time, or before, to queen Elizabeth, as by the sayde deeds appereth, (wh'ch I have coppyed, and are in custody of Mr. Ravenscroft, of Bretton, and sealed with the lion rampant, being Montealto cote) and came to Kingsley about H. 3 tyme." It would now be a vain attempt to seek for the Ravenscroft deeds, on which this positive assertion is founded, but the following deed abundantly proves that the Gerards who settled at Kingsley were immediately derived from Hawarden, one of the seats of the barons of Montalt, and disproves the manner in which the pedigrees deduce the patronymic of Gerard from the Geralds of the Fitz-other family. "Sciant, &c. quod ego Radulphus filius Willielmi de Haurthine, dedi Willielmo filio Gerardi totam terrain meam in Haurthine, quae quidem suit leprosorum, quam quidem terram Robertus de Montealto, senescallus Cestriae, dedit Will’mo de Haurthine patri meo, habendam, &c. reddendo annuatim Id. His testibus, Radulpho Corbyn, Madoco Vaughan, Willielmo filio Radulphi, &c. Seal: a hare sitting upright on the stump of an oak, circumscribed, "Sig. Radulfi fil. Will, de H." This document is preserved in a MS volume formed from copies of deeds in the possession of Randle Holme, (Harl. MSS. 1968,) and followed by others of later date, relative to the same estate, which has been already noticed among the abstracts of evidences of the Gerards in a fine 9 Edw. II and a marriage settlement 4 Hen. VI. It is also a strong argument in favour of the hypothesis which deduces the Gerards from the male line of one of the most powerful of the earl of Chester's Norman barons, that the early Cheshire pedigrees concur in giving to this family the Montalt coat debruised with a bend, Gules; and it is certain that the armorial seal of William Gerard, 33 Edw. III as already noticed, consisted of the Montalt coat, without the slightest difference. All the branches of Gerard have, however, discontinued this honourable bearing; some have adopted the saltire, Gules, in reference to the supposed descent from Fitz-other, and others have borne, Azure, a lion rampant, Ermine, ducally crowned, Or, in reference to their descent from the heiress of the Lancashire family of Bryn. The male line of the eldest branch of this family is continued by the Gerards of Bryn and Garswood, in Lancashire; from younger sons of which house descended the Gerards of Ledsham, in Cheshire, and of Ince, in Lancashire, the latter of which was the parent stock of the Barons of Gerards Bromley, and of the earls of Macclesfield.
   
3. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: WILLIAM FitzWilliam
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#WilliamFitzWilliamdied1227;
   Note: a) WILLIAM FitzWilliam (-before Aug 1227). Baron of Naas. He was ancestor of the BARONS of NAAS. m as her second husband, MATILDA [Eva] de Pont de l'Arche, widow of PHILIP de Briouse, daughter of --- (-after 1 Sep 1227). "William baron of Naas and Eva his wife" paid a fine for "having dower in the manor of Grene, which pertains to Eva of the free tenement formerly of Phillip de Braose, her former husband, in Ireland," dated 12 Sep 1220. A charter dated 1 Sep 1227 records that "Matilda who was the wife of the Baron of Nas represents that the justiciary…has disseised her of her dower out of…those of Philip de Breouse her first husband" and the king´s order to restore the property to her. William & his wife had two children: i) DAVID FitzWilliam . "David Fitz William Baron of Naas" gave land to "Maurice Fitz William his brother" by charter dated 25 Sep 1234. ii) MAURICE FitzWilliam . "David Fitz William Baron of Naas" gave land to "Maurice Fitz William his brother" by charter dated 25 Sep 1234.
   
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