Sir Maurice de Prendergast

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• Background Information. ⁹⁹⁰
Sir Maurice de Pendergast, who accompanied Strongbow, earl of Pembroke, to Ireland, 23 Aug 1175. He built Ardfinan Castle (1199-1216), and recived grants of land in Tipperanry, Waterford, Wicklow and Wexford. He died at Kilmainham near Dublin in 1205, being then Prior of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. His issue were Phillip and Gerald McMaurice.

~ Burke's A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Vol. II, p. 773

• Background Information. ⁹⁹³

Carrigaline
12__ Ralph de Killangy was inducted into the vicarage of Beanner, Cork, on the presentation of Philip de Prendergast.
12__ Maurce de Prendergast was Vicar of Beanner
12__ Stephen de Inscorthy, Clk., was admitted in succession to Maurice de Prendergast, on the presentation of Gerald de Prendergast, son and heir of the above Philip de Prendergast.
12__ Iver was admitted V. Beanner, on the presentation of Marice de Rupefort, who married Matilda de Prendergast, daughter and heir of the above Gerald de Prendergast; and Maurice de Rupeford (son and heir of said Maurice and Matilda de Prendergast) estabished his right to advowson in 1311.

~ Clerical and Parochial Records of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, p. 59

• Background Information. ⁹⁹⁴
The name Prendergast appears amongst the officers of William the Conqueror's army, on the Roll of Battle Abbey, but the family was not Norman. The family of Prendergasts were Flemings. The suffix of "gast" means "host," and "Prendergast" would mean "inhabitant or owner of the district of Prender."

From Pembrokeshire, Maurice de Prendergast came to Ireland in 1169, at the head of ten knights and two hundred archers, as part of the vanguard of Strongbow, to assist M'Murrough, king of Leinster, against the princes who had confederated against him. In 1177 he gave his Castle of Prendergast in Pembrokeshire to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem. an order which he eventually joined. and which he was Prior of Kilmainham, near Dublin, the chief seat of the brotherhood in Ireland where he died in 1205.

For Maurice's service in Ireland, Strongbow gave him the territory of Fernegenal in Wexford, a district lying opposite to the town of Wexford on the north and separated from it only by the river Slaney.

~ Archaeologia Cambrensis, Vol. XLI, 3rd Series, pp. 67-68

• From Gen-Medieval Archives: Juliane fitz Maurice, Wife of Thomas de Clare . ¹⁹³

From: Douglas Richardson <royalancestryNOroSPAM@msn.com.invalid>
Subject: Re: Juliane Fitz Maurice, wife of Thomas de Clare
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:54:38 -0800
E-mail: royalancestry@msn.com

AHNENTAFEL OF JULIANE FITZ MAURICE (concentrating on her
maternal ancestry):

1. JULIANE FITZ MAURICE, married Thomas de Clare, Knt.

2. MAURICE FITZ MAURICE, Knt., of Connaught, and, in right of his wife, of Corbyn and the cantred of Corran, co. Cork, Tobernea, co. Limerick and Killegny, co. Wexford, Justiciar of Ireland, was born about 1238, died 1286. He married (lst) Maud de Prendergast (No. 3 below); (2nd) in or before 1276, Emmeline Longespeee, daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland.

3. MAUD DE PRENDERGAST, born about 1242 (aged ten in March 1252). She was married (lst) to David Fitz Maurice (who d.s.p. before St. Patrick's Day, 1249); (2nd) Maurice de Rochford (who died before May, 1258); and (3rd) Maurice Fitz Maurice, Knt. (No. 2 above).

6. GERALD DE PRENDEGAST, of Beauvoir, Ballacha in Orrery, and Corbyn, co. Cork, Tobernea, co. Limerick, and Crosspatrick and Killegny, co. Wexford, was born say 1200. He married (lst) Maud, daughter of Theobald Walter by his wife, Maud le Vavasour; married (2nd) in or before 1240, _____ de Burgh (No. 7 below). He died in 1251.

7. _____ DE BURGH.

12. PHILIP DE PRENDERGAST, of Schyrmal and Kynalo, co. Wexford and, in right of his wife, of the Duffrey, co. Leinster, born say 1170. He married Maud de Quincy (No. 13 below). He was probably the builder of Enniscorthy Castle, co. Leinster. He died in 1229.

13. MAUD DE QUINCY, born late in 1172 or early 1173.

14. RICHARD DE BURGH, lord of Connaught, Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, 1328-32, was born say 1200. He was married before 21 April 1225, to Jill de Lacy (No. 15 below). He died in Gascony shortly before 17 Feb. 1242/3.
15. JILL DE LACY, living 1243.

24. MAURICE DE PRENDERGAST (of Flemish descent), of Rhos, co. Pembroke. He landed in Ireland in 1169 but returned soon afterwards to Wales. He returned to Ireland in 1170, after Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke, granted him Fernegal, co. Leinster. He was living in 1173. He may be the Maurice de Prendergast who was prior of Kilmainham in 1200.