William FitzMaurice Baron of Naas

• Preferred Name: William FitzMaurice Baron of Naas^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16]}
  
• Alternate Name: William FitzWilliam FitzGerald
  
• Gender: M
  
• Birth: ABT 1150 in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland at LATI: N3.2167 LONG: E6.6667
  
• FSID: G99T-1JM
  
• 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: BEF SEP 1199 in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland at LATI: N3.2167 LONG: E6.6667
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baron of Naas with note: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: WILLIAM FitzMaurice
  
• 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
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “RICHARD FITZ GILBERT (nicknamed Strongbow), 2nd Earl of Pembroke, Earl of Striguil, of Chepstow, Monmouthshire, Hinxworth, Hertfordshire, etc., seigneur of Bienfaite and Orbec (both in Normandy), Justiciar of Ireland, son and heir, born about 1130. On the accession of King Henry II in 1154, he refused to acknowledged Richard as earl and took the lordship of Pembroke into his own hands. In Autumn 1167 he came to an agreement with Dermot MacMurrough, King of Leinster; for the earl's assistance with an army, he could have Eve, Dermot's eldest daughter in marriage and the succession to Leinster. An army was assembled led by Raymond Fitz Gerald (also known as Raymond le Gros) that included Welsh archers; it captured the towns of Wexford, Waterford, and Dublin in 1169-70. Richard married at Waterford, Ireland about 26 August 1170 EVE OF LEINSTER daughter of Dermot MacMurrough (also called Diarmait MacMurchada), King of Leinster, by Mor, daughter of Muirchertach Ua Tuathail From 1172 onwards, he was styled Earl of Striguil. They had one son, Gilbert [Earl of Pembroke], and one daughter, Isabel. In 1173 he played a critical role in Normandy in defending the castle of Gisors and recapturing Verneuil for the king. RICHARD FITZ GILBERT, 2nd Earl of Pembroke died about 20 April 1176, and was buried in the Church of the Holy Trinity [Christ Church], Dublin. His widow, Eve, was living in 1187. Sometime in the period, 1185-94, his widow, Eve, as "heres Regis Deremicii,"confirmed to John Comyn, Archbishop of Dublin, and his successors all of her earlier gifts. At her death, she was buried in Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire.
  Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 1 (1847): 200-201 (Clare ped.). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 10 (1855): 261-263 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to the monks of Usk; charter witnessed by Countess Isabel and Isabel her daughter, Ralph Bloet, and Walter Bloet). Eyton Court, Household, & Itinerary of King Henry 11 (1878): 16, 109, 118, 165-166, 172, 176, 196, 202. Gilbert Acct. of Facsimiles of National MSS of Ireland (1879): 72 (charter of Richard Fitz Gislebert dated c.1172). Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 1 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 78-79 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Hervé de Montmorency and Walter Bluet), 79-81, 83-84 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Earl Gilbert to St. Mary's Abbey; charter witnessed by Walter Bluet and Richard Bluet); 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 12, 274 (Annals sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus circa kal. julii apud Dubliniam obiit, et in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis."), 304 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1177: "Comes Ricardus, circa kalendas Maii, apud Dubliniam obiit; in ecclesia Sancte Trinitatis Dublinie sepelitur."). Owen Desc. of Penbrokshire (Cymmrodorion Rec. Ser. 1) (1892): 16-25. Arch. Jour. 2nd Ser. 6 (1899): 221-231. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 361 (undated charter of Earl Richard son of Gilbert to Goldcliff Priory; charter witnessed by Isabel the earl's mother and Isabel his sister); 3 (1908): 96-97 (undated charter of Richard, Earl of Pembroke to Tintern Abbey, charter granted with the consent of his mother, Countess Isabel, and names his father, Earl Gilbert). VCH Hertford 3 (1912): 232-240. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Sanders English Baronies (1960): 110-111. TG 1 (1980): 4-27. Coat of Arms n.s. 10(1994): 322-328. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 161, 477. Tyerman Who's Who in Early Medieval England 1066-1272 (2001): 206-208 (biog. of Richard of Clare). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-737 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert).
  Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by unknown wife or mistress,
  i. ___ DE CLARE, married ROBERT DE QUINCY, Constable of Leinster [see PRENDERGAST 5],
  ii. ALINE DE CLARE, married in 1174 WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare. They had one son, William Fitz Maurice [Baron of Naas]. WILLIAM FITZ MAURICE died before c.September 1199. Jour. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 5th Ser. 2 (1892): 194 ("William, the son of Maurice, is stated in the table to have married `Ala, daughter of Strongbow'; but the 'Conquest of Ireland' (Cal. Car. MSS., 296) has it - 'Also the Erie yawe Ellyn his sustir to Wyllam Moryces yldist sone."), chart facing pg. 358. Wright Hist. Works of Giraldus Cambrensis (1905): 183 (ped.), 259 (sub Conquest of Ireland: "Raymond also, to consolidate the union among the English, induced the earl to give his daughter Alina in marriage to William, the eldest son of Maurice Fitzgerald."). English Hist. Rev. 31 (1916): 489 ("William, son of Maurice, who according to Giraldus, married in 1174 Alina, daughter of Strongbow, seems to have died before 1199, when 'William de Naas' fined for an inquisition of mort d'ancestor against the abbot of Baltinglass. This was his son and successor, the third baron, who married Mahaut de Pont de l'Arche and died in 1227, when he was succeeded by his son David, the fourth baron."). Orpen Ireland under the Normans 4 (1920): 307-308 ("Addenda et Corrigenda to Volume I and II - Vol. p. 18; vol. ii, pp. 165, 246. William, son of William, Baron of Naas': - It was William, third Baron of Naas, son of William, the second baron, who married Matilda of Pont de l'Arche. She was widow of Philip de Braose. Close Roll, 11 Hen. III, pg. 199. This William Fitz William has been hitherto omitted in the received pedigrees, but in a review of the Gormanston Register (English Hist. Review, vol. xxxi (1916), pp. 488-9) I have established his position. His father, William, son of Maurice, who married Alma, daughter of Strongbow, was dead before c. September 1199 (Rot. de Obtalis, 1 John, m. 15, p. 26). The third baron is often called simply 'William, Baron of Nass', hence the confusion, but his patronymic appears in several documents, e.g. Cal. Germanston Register, pp. 154, 200, 204; and Cal. Docs. Ireland, vol. i, p. 448. David Fitz William, fourth Baron of Naas, was his son and heir by `Mahaut de Pontearch' (Matilda de Pont de l'Arche): Cal. Gormanston Register, p. 163."). C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke). Duffy Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia (2005): 733-735 (biog. of Richard Fitz Gilbert).
  Child of Aline de Clare, by William Fitz Maurice:
  a. WILLIAM FITZ WILLIAM, Baron of Naas, married MAUD PONTE DE L'ARCHE [see MARSHAL 2.v.c].
  Children of Richard Fitz Gilbert, by Eve of Leinster:
  i. GILBERT FITZ RICHARD, son and heir, born about 1173, died 1185-9 s.p., probably a minor. C.P. 10 (1945): Appendix H, 100-104 (sub Families of the First and Second Earls of Pembroke).
  ii. ISABEL DE CLARE, married WILLIAM MARSHAL, Knt., 3rd Earl of Pembroke [see MARSHAL 3]”
  
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  William I FitzMaurice, 2nd Baron of Naas 1177
  s/o Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Baron of Nass & Alice Montgomery
  b- Nass, Kildare, Ireland
  m- Aline Clare, d/o Richard "Strongbow" Clare
  d- before 1199 - Nass, Kildare, Ireland
  
  1185 - Prince John of England, confirmed the Barony of Nass to him
  1199 - King John granted to William i FitzMaurice - castle of Carakitt
  
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  === Source: lorenfamily.com ===
  Source: lorenfamily.com
  
  === The Family of Auer Winchester Proctor, Vol. II ===
  !INFORMATION:From "The Family of Auer Winchester Proctor, Vol. II", page459. Film #1036367 !Justice in Eyre
  
  === He was Baron of Naas, and ancestor of t ===
  He was Baron of Naas, and ancestor of the Barons of Naas, from his fa ther.

• m. 1174

1. Basilia FitzWilliam of Naas, b. 1182 in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland    

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7. 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.
   
8. Title: William FitzMaurice Baron of Naas, Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_FitzGerald,_Lord_of_Llanstephan;
   
9. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: WILLIAM FitzMaurice
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#_ftnref536;
   Note: Maurice & his first wife had one child: 1. WILLIAM FitzMaurice (-[1199]). The Expugnatio Hibernica names "Mauricio filio Guillelmo comes" when recording his marriage. Baron of Naas. m (1174) ALINE de Clare, illegitimate daughter of RICHARD de Clare "Strongbow" Earl of Pembroke. The Expugnatio Hibernica records the marriage between "Mauricio filio Guillelmo comes" and "Alinam filiam suam [Richardi]."
   
10. 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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