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Juliana FitzMaurice
- Preferred Name: Juliana FitzMaurice[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Alternate Name: Juliana Fitz Maurice
- Alternate Name: Julian FitzMaurice
- Alternate Name: Juliana Fitzgerald De Cretynges
- Gender: F
- Burial: 24 SEP 1300 in Dublin, Co Dublin, Ireland at LATI: N3.3443 LONG: E6.2665
- FSID: LYZR-2Q4
- Birth: ABT 1263 in Dublin, Co Dublin, Ireland at LATI: N3.3443 LONG: E6.2665
- Death: 24 SEP 1300 in Thomond, Co Clare, Ireland at LATI: N2.85 LONG: E8.9833
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Juliana FitzGerald, Lady of Thomond ... (c. 1263 - 29 September 1300) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman, the daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, and the wife of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, a powerful Anglo-Norman baron in Ireland, who was a younger brother of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford.
Juliana was married three times; Thomas being her first.
She is sometimes referred to as Juliane FitzMaurice.
Juliana FitzMaurice was born on 12 April 1266 in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest daughter of Maurice FitzGerald II, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Justiciar of Ireland and Maud de Prendergast. She had a sister Amabel who married but was childless. Her first cousin was John FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare. Her paternal grandparents were Maurice FitzGerald I, 2nd Lord of Offaly and Juliana, and her maternal grandparents were Sir Gerald de Prendergast of Beauvoir and Matilda de Burgh, daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh, Lord of Connacht and Egidia de Lacy. Juliana's maternal ancestors included Niall of the Nine Hostages, Brian Boru, Dermot McMurrough, and Maud de Braose.
Juliana's father, Maurice FitzGerald, was married twice, first to Maud de Prendergast and secondly to Emmeline Longespee. It has been some source of contention as to which of his two wives had issue Juliana. However, at her death, Emmeline Longespee did not mention Juliana as her daughter and heir; rather, Emmeline's heir was her niece, Maud la Zouche, wife of Robert la Zouche, 1st Lord Holland. It has been concluded by several reputable researchers that Juliana's mother was Maurice FitzGerald's first wife, Maud de Prendergast. Supporters for Emmeline Longespee being the mother have yet to produce any counter-evidence beyond hearsay.
Marriages and issue
In 1278, at the age of 12, Juliana married her first husband, Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, Lord of Inchiquin and Youghal. He was the second eldest son of Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford, 2nd Earl of Gloucester and Maud de Lacy. Thomas was a friend of King Edward I of England, with whom he went on a Crusade. He held many important posts including the Office of Governor of Colchester Castle (1266), Governor of the City of London (1273). He was also the commander of the English forces in Munster, Ireland, and on 26 January 1276, he was granted the lordship of Thomond. He was born in 1245, which made him about eighteen years older than Juliana. Throughout their marriage, the couple lived in both Ireland and England. It is recorded that on 5 May 1284, King Edward notified his lieges and bailiffs in Ireland of the attorneys who were to act on behalf of Thomas and Juliana as they were in England at the time. This arrangement continued for another three years except while they were residing in Ireland.
Thomas and Juliana had four children:
1. Maud de Clare (c. 1276–1326/27), married firstly on 3 November 1295 Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, by whom she had issue; she married secondly after 1314 Robert de Welle.
2. Gilbert de Clare, Lord of Thomond (3 February 1281–1308)
3. Richard de Clare, Steward of Forest of Essex, 1st Lord Clare, Lord of Thomond (after 1281 – 10 May 1318 at the Battle of Dysert O'Dea), married a woman by the name of Joan by whom he fathered one son, Thomas.
4. Margaret de Clare (c. 1 April 1287 – 22 October 1333), married firstly in 1303 Gilbert de Umfraville; she married secondly before 30 June 1308 Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere, by whom she had four daughters and one son.
The era was marked by unrest and strife as civil war was waged between rival factions of the powerful O'Brien clan. In 1277, Juliana's husband had his former ally Brian Ruad, the deposed King of Thomond, hanged for treason at Bunratty.
Thomas died on 29 August 1287, leaving Juliana a widow at the age of twenty-four with four small children; the youngest, Margaret was not quite five months old.
On an unknown date she married her second husband, Nicholas Avenel. He presumably died before 11 December 1291/16 February 1292, as this is when she married her third husband, Adam de Cretynges.
Death and legacy
Juliana died on 24 September 1300. Her numerous descendants included Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland who married Lady Joan Beaufort and thus their descendant, the English king Edward IV. By Edward IV's daughter, Elizabeth of York, consort of Henry VII, she was an ancestress to all subsequent monarchs of England and the current British Royal Family. Henry VIII's queens consort Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr also descended from her.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_FitzGerald,_Lady_of_Thomond
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/IRELAND.htm#JohnFitzThomasKildaredied1316A as of 7/24/2016
JULIANA . Her parentage and two marriages are confirmed by documents attached to a writ dated 28
Memorial
Juliane fitz Maurice was born about 1263, probably in Dublin, Ireland; "Juliane Fitz Maurice, wife of Sir Thomas de Clare, lord of Thomond, has universally been accepted as the daughter of Sir Mauric
=== Magna Carta Sureties line 33 p 29 ===
Magna Carta Sureties line 33 p 29
=== {{British Isles 742-1499}} ===
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== Biography =="Juliane Fitz Maurice, wife of Sir Thomas de Clare, lord of Thomond, has universally been accepted as the daughter of [[FitzMaurice-96|Sir Maurice FitzMaurice]], by his 2nd wife, [[Longespée-76|Emeline Longespée]]. New research indicates that Emeline Longespée died without issue, and that Juliane actually was the daughter of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice's first wife, [[Prendergast-85|Maud de Prendergast]]."[DouglasRichardson, [http://books.google.co.id/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PR3&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Magna Carta Ancestry (2nd ed., 2011)], 1: xxxiii.]
== Sources ==
* Magna Carta Ancestry, 2011, 2nd Edition, by Douglas Richardson Vol. I p. 86-90
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013, Douglas Richardson, Vol. I. p. 216'''
=== Juliane Fitz Maurice, wife of Sir Thomas ===
Juliane Fitz Maurice, wife of Sir Thomas de Clare, lord of Thomond, has universally been accepted as the daughter of Sir Maurice Fitz Maurice, by his 2nd wife, Emeline Longespee. New research indicates that Emeline Longespee died without issue, and that Juliane actually was the daughter of Sir Maurice Fitz Maurice's first wife, Maud de Prendergast.
Emeline's Heiress was her great niece, Maud la Zouche, wife of Rogert de Holand, Knt., 1st Lord Holand. [Plantagenet Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, p. xx]
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Juliane, married 1st Thomas de Clare and had issue, married 2nd Nicholas Avenel. [Burke's Peerage]
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RICHARD DE CLARE, brother and heir of Gilbert de Clare (b), was son of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond in Connaught (c), by Julian, daughter and heir of Sir Maurice FitzMaurice, Lord Justice of Ireland (d). . . [Complete Peerage III:246]
(d) This Julian m. 2ndly, as his 2nd wife, Adam de Creting, father of John [Lord] Creting, and was living in England in 1292.
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NOTE: In order to resolved the conflict between the two sources, I am making Nicholas her 2nd husband, who died before 1292, when she was wife of Adam de Creting (her 3rd husband).
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Lady Amy, dau,.of Sir Maurice Fitz-Maurice, of Malahuffe Castle, Desmond; m. Thomas de Clare (2nd son of Gilbert de Clare and Lady Maud de Lacie), constable of Gloucester Castle in 1266; mother of Thomas de Clare (3rd son). [Magna Charta Barons, p. 421]
!Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 132
!Dau. of Emmeline Longespee and Maurice FitzMaurice; wife of Thomas de Clare; mother of Maud. [The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, p. 354]
b. 1249, d. 1309 [Judy Martin]
b. 1266, dau. of Maurice Fitz Maurice, Lord of Offaly in Ireland, and Emmeline Longespee; m. Thomas de Clare, Gov. of London. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2919b]Dau. of Maurice Fitz Maurice and his 1st wife Maud de Prendergast; m. Thomas de Clare, Knt. [Douglas Richardson
m.1 Sir Thomas de Clare; m.2 Sir Adam de Cretynge, Lord of Stockton, Hunts; mother of Margaret de Clare. [Adrian Channing
b.c. 1249, d.c. 1300. Dau. of Maurice Fitzgerald and Emmeline de Longspee; m. Thomas de Clare, Lord Thomond. [Raymond L Montgomery
=== note ===
pg 72 & 151, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists etc" by Frederick Lewis Weiss, 6th Edition
pg 119, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883
Please tell me about ANY errors, as this data base is constantly improving. If the name you want is not in this data base, I don't have it.
=== !DESCENT: Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal ===
!DESCENT: Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, at 338, 354 (1992). !DESCENT: Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 7th ed., at 59 (1992).
=== !AFN: 91SH-PJ. ===
!AFN: 91SH-PJ.
Juliane, married 1st Thomas de Clare and had issue, married 2nd Nicholas Avenel. [Burke's Peerage]
Seal to Parents: 11 OCT 1991 JRIVE- Jordan River, UT
Ancestral File Number: 91SH-PJ
=== *Juliana FitzGerald ===
*Juliana FitzGerald
born about 1243 Ireland
died after 1309
father:
*Gerald Fitzmaurice
born about 1215 Adare, Limerick, Ireland
died 1243 Gascony, France
mother:
unknown
siblings:
Maurice FitzMaurice Fitzgerald born about 1241 Ireland
spouse:
*Thomas de Clare
born about 1248 Tonbridge, Kent, England
died February 1287/88 Thomond, Connaught, County Clare, Ireland
married Essex, England
children:
*Maud de Clare born about 1276 Gloucestershire, England died 1 February 1327
Richard de Clare born about 1278 Essex, England died 7 June 1318 Dysert, Ireland
Gilbert de Clare born about 1281 christened 3 February 1281 Munster, Limerick, Ireland
died before 16 November 1307
*Margaret de Clare born about 1280/86 Chilham Castle, Kent, England or Thomond, Connaught, County Clare, Ireland
died 1333 Castle Badlesmere, Kent, England
biographical and/or anecdotal:
notes or source:
LDS
ancestry.com
Of 648 entries 647 list Juliana (Julian) as the daughter of her brother and his wife Emmeline Longespee both of whom were incontrovertibly born in 1250. One entry names her Juliana FitzGerald with no father.
Gerald was Maurice's father and therefore may be Juliana's father.
In any event all are descended from *Maurice Fitzgerald and *Juliana Cogan so there is only a momentary (one generation) error if this is not the case.
=== !SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPERO ===
!SOURCE: PEDIGREES OF SOME OF THE EMPEROR CHRLEMAGNES DESCENDANTS compiled by MARCELLUS DONALD ALEXANDER R. von REDLICH Baltimore 1988; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
=== Sources: A. Roots 54, 64, 178; Norr; Kra ===
Sources: A. Roots 54, 64, 178; Norr; Kraentzler 1054, 1061; Ayers. Ayers: Juliana Fitz Maurice. Living 1291 Six generations above Juliane in Roots Line 178. Goes to Rhys ap TudorMawr.
=== Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna ===
Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1999], 144-4.
=== !Chart #212 ROYAL ANCESTORS, by Michael ===
!Chart #212 ROYAL ANCESTORS, by Michael Call
=== !BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Complete Pee ===
!BIRTH-MARRIAGE-DEATH: "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland", SL #0973317; "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623-1650", by Frederick Lewis Weis, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co.,Inc., pg 56, line 64, #31
=== !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
!BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection April, 1994 !Diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, 1853 Royal Genealogies of Magna Carte Barons
=== M L Call: Cht 11212 # 7 M E Sorley: The ===
M L Call: Cht 11212 # 7 M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P 43 V M Norr: Some Early English Pedigrees P 48
=== !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
!Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 178-7, 54-31
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
Juliana FitzMaurice1
F, #3572, b. circa 1249, d. circa 1300
Juliana FitzMaurice|b. c 1249\nd. c 1300|p358.htm#i3572|Sir Maurice fitz Maurice|d. 1286|p358.htm#i3573|Emeline de Longespée||p411.htm#i4108|Maurice fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly|d. 1257|p411.htm#i4109|Juliane (?)||p15482.htm#i154817|Stephen Longespée|b. 1216\nd. 1260|p411.htm#i4104|Emeline de Ridelsford|b. 1220\nd. bt 18 May 1275 - 19 Jul 1276|p411.htm#i4105|
Last Edited=7 Apr 2007
Juliana FitzMaurice was born circa 1249 at Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland .2 She was the daughter of Sir Maurice fitz Maurice and Emeline de Longespée .1 She married Sir Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, son of Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester and Matilda de Lacy .3 She died circa 1300.
Her married name became de Clare.4 She was also known as Julian FitzMaurice.4
Children of Juliana FitzMaurice and Sir Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond
Richard de Clare, 1st Lord Clare + d. 7 Jun 13185
Maud de Clare + b. c 1276, d. fr 4 Mar 1326/27 - 24 May 13274
Gilbert de Clare b. 3 Feb 1280/81, d. 13075
Margaret de Clare + b. c 1287, d. 13331
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 I, page 149. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
[S125 ] Richard Glanville-Brown, online >, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
[S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume VII, page 200.
[S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 247.
[S6 ] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 246.
=== Complete Peerage vol 3 p 291 ===
Complete Peerage vol 3 p 291
=== !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
!BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
=== GEN: !Royal Ancestors.......by M Call 11 ===
GEN: !Royal Ancestors.......by M Call 11212 #7 & FGR 123
Preferred Parents:
Father: Maurice FitzGerald 3rd Lord of Offaly 3rd Lord of Offaly 3rd Lord of Offaly, b. 1238 in Offaly, Ireland d. 2 SEP 1277 in County Wexford, Ireland
Family 1: Nicholas Avenel, b. ABT 1260 in Bicknor, Kent, England d. BET 11 DEC 1291 AND 16 DEC 1292
Family 2: Adam de Cretynges,
Family 3: Thomas de Clare, b. ABT 1245 in Tonbridge Castle, Kent, England d. 20 AUG 1287 in Clare, Ireland
- m. FEB 1275 in Essex, England
- Maud de Clare, b. 1279 in Bunratty Castle, Thomond, County Clare, Munster, Ireland d. 24 MAY 1327 in Castle Clifford, Hay, Hertfordshire, England
- Margaret de Clare, b. 1 APR 1287 in Bunratty Castle, County Clare, Ireland d. 22 OCT 1333 in Convent house of the Minorite Sisters, Aldgate, London
Family 4: John de Cogan,
Sources:
- Title: Juliana FitzMaurice de Clare, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-2ZD5 : 25 May 2022), Juliana FitzMaurice de Clare, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 132938826, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-2ZD5;
- Title: Wikipedia, "Juliana FitzGerald, Lady of Thomond"
Author: Wikipedia.org
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliana_FitzGerald,_Lady_of_Thomond;
Note: Juliana FitzMaurice, Lady of Thomond (12 April 1266 - 29 September 1300) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman, the daughter of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, and the wife of Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, a powerful Anglo-Norman baron in Ireland, who was a younger brother of Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford. Juliana was married three times; Thomas being her first. She is sometimes referred to as Juliane FitzMaurice.
- Title: Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition
Author: pg xxxi
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:r6zE9btEy7UC&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjCw7Dc0_ffAhXuc98KHe2EDz4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false;
- Title: Juliana FitzMaurice de Clare, "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-2ZD5 : 25 May 2022), Juliana FitzMaurice de Clare, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID 132938826, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-2ZD5;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Mrs John Cogan - birth:
Author: v11t4329.FTW, Not Given
Note: birth:
Source Media Type: Other
Source Media Type: Other
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222792
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