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Blanche de la Roche
- Preferred Name: Blanche de la Roche[1] [2]
- Gender: F
- FSID: GHJL-WY2
- Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Countess
- Death: FEB 1329 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland at LATI: N3.1646 LONG: E6.8867
- Birth: 1255 in Banada Castle, Sligo, Ireland at LATI: N4.0375 LONG: E8.8169 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Baroness of Offaly in County Offaly, Ireland at LATI: N3.2385 LONG: E7.6316
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
thepeerage.com: Blanche de la Roche was the daughter of John Roche.1
She married John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare, son of Thomas fitz Maurice.2
Her married name became FitzGerald.1 After her marriage, Blanche de la Roche was styled as Countess of Kildare on 14 May 1316.
She was living in 1327.2
Children of Blanche de la Roche and John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare
Lady Joan FitzGerald+1
Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare+1 d. 5 Apr 1328
Citations
[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 221. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S37] BP2003 volume 2, page 2297. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S37]
[S37] Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#JohnFitzThomasKildaredied1316B as of 7/24/2016
BLANCHE Roche, daughter of JOHN Roche Baron of Fermoy & his wife --- (-after Feb 1330).
=== !MARRIAGE: Blanche Roche and John Fitz T ===
!MARRIAGE: Blanche Roche and John Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald, Baron Doc. Line 178A-7
=== !NOTES: Living in 1329/1330 ===
!NOTES: Living in 1329/1330
Preferred Parents:
Father: Sir John De La Roche (Lord Fermoy de la Roche), b. 1205 (1220) in Roche Castle, Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, , Wales, d. 1251 (1255) in Fermoy, , Cork, Ireland
Mother: Lady Maud Le Waleys Baroness Roche, b. 1224 in Eglwys Manor, Cwmmin, Wales d. 1315 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Family 1: John Fitz Gerald 4th Lord of Offaly 1st Earl of Kildare, b. 1250 in Banada, County Sligo, Ireland d. 10 SEP 1316 in Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland
- Joan FitzGerald, b. 1282 in Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland d. 2 MAY 1320 in Laraghbryan, County Kildare, Ireland
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Blanche de la Roche - birth-name: Blanche de la Roche
Author: media.type.Electronic, Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Tompsett, Brian, http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/, August 9, 2000
Note: birth-name: Blanche de la Roche
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2196640650
- Title: Wikipedia -Blanche de la Roche in John FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_FitzGerald,_1st_Earl_of_Kildare;
Note: John FitzThomas (c. 1250 – d. 10 September 1316) was an Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland, as 4th Lord of Offaly from 1287 and subsequently as 1st Earl of Kildare from 1316.
He had married Blanche de La Roche, daughter of John de La Roche, Lord Fermoy and Maud Waley (daughter of Henry Waley),by whom he had two sons and two daughters:
Gerald (d.1303)
Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare, his successor.
Joan FitzGerald, married in 1302 to Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick.
Elizabeth FitzGerald, married to Nicholas Netterville, ancestor of Viscount Netterville.
Citation Cokayne, George Edward, ed. (1892). Complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (G to K). 4 (1st ed.). London: George Bell & Sons. p. 368. Retrieved 27 December 2011.
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