Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameThomas FitzMaurice 'the Crooked Heir' FITZGERALD Lord Of Decies, 19G Grandfather
FatherMaurice FitzJohn FITZGERALD 2d Lord Of Decies & Desmond (-1261)
MotherMaud DE BARRY (-1282)
Spouses
1Margaret DE BERKELEY, 19G Grandmother
FatherSir Thomas DE BERKELEY 1st Lord Berkeley (~1245-1321)
MotherJoan DE FERRERS (-1309)
ChildrenMaurice FitzThomas (1293-1356)
Web Notes notes for Thomas FitzMaurice 'the Crooked Heir' FITZGERALD Lord Of Decies
Granted lands at Meane and Mahowagh to his cousin, Gilbert FitzJohn.
From "Complete Peerage England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britian" by George E Cokayne, CS421.G2 1982, v IV, page 234, Desmond:
Thomas FitzMorice, was called 'the Crooked Heir'. Annals of Ulster, vol ii, p392: Annals of Loch Ce, vol i, p. 520. Genealogists call him A nAppagh. "This young babe at the tyme of his father's death, being nursed and fostered at Traley; the report and rumor of this overthrow [at Callan where his father and grandfather were killed] comeing thither, suddainly the nurses running forth cryeing and lamenting, the childe was left all alone, when a monkey that was kept in the house tooke him out of the cradle, carryed him to the topp of the castle, there unwrapped him out of the swadling cloathes, licked and lapped the childe and folded ye child up in the cloathes againe, and . . . brought him down againe in safety, and left the sayd child where first he found him, and finding the nurse setting by the cradle, gave her a sound boxe on the eare, as it is thought thereby warneing and admonishing her to looke better hereafter to her charge." This whole episode has also been claimed as occurring to John FitzThomas, afterwards 1st Earl of Kildare. He was grandson and heir, being the son and heir of Morice Fitz John by Maud de Barry. He was only a few weeks old when his father was killed.
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He was born about Apr 1261. He reached his age shortly before 1 Apr 1282, according to a writ of that date. (Ch. Inq. p. m.-on John fitz Thomas-Edw. I, file 31, no. I. He came to England in 1282. Patent Rolls, 10 Edw. I, m. 15; 12 Edw. I, m. 20: Close Roll, 12 Edw. I, mn. 9, 5. He appears, from entries on the Patent rolls, to have been constantly in England till Feb 1291/2. On 4 Apr 1291 he witnessed a charter of Roger, Earl of Norfolk, dated at Berkeley. (Close Roll, 19 Edw. I, m. 5 d). The King took his homage and gave him livery of 1-1/2 cantreds in Thomond of which his grandfather, John fitz Thomas, had died seized, 8 Feb 1283/4, and the lands in Decies and Desmond of which his said grandfather had died seized, saving the King's right thereto, 9 May 1284. Subsequently, the King recovered these lands, on the grounds that he was a minor when he granted them, and that John fitz Thomas had intruded thereon without livery from the King or his ministers. But on 6 Feb 1291/2 the King gave to Thomas fitz Morice and Margaret his wife, the King's cousin, all the said lands of Decies and Desmond and the custody of the castle of Dungarvan, to hold, to them and the heirs of Thomas, at a rent of 200 marks a year, by the service of half a knight's fee: saving to the King the crosses [Creciis, crosses or cross lands, that is, Church lands exempt from the jurisdiction of the lords of the liberties. The calendars of the Carew MSS, vol. v, p. 404, translate the word absurdly as "profits of saffron" and Jeayes, Berkeley Charters, p. 147, as "all the saffron growing on the said lands."] in the same lands, and the said counties [of Waterford and Desmond], and the pleas and profits, &c, pertaining to those counties and to the Crown [Charter Roll, 20 Edw. I, m. 9: Patent Roll [I], antiquissime, no. 17].
Thomas was summoned for Military Service from 29 Jun 1294 [22 Edw. I] to 17 May 1297 [25 Edw I], by writs directed Thome filio Mauricii. Keeper (Custos) of Ireland, 19 Apr to 2 Dec 1295, holding the place and receiving the salary of Justiciar. He was paid for his services from 19 Apr to 2 Dec, as Keeper of Ireland, holding the place of Justiciar [worth £500 a year] for 196 days £269 16s. 1/2d., and as coming with an armed force from Munster to Leinster on account of the war in Ireland, for the other 31 days at 100s. a day £155. Pipe Roll [with a mistake in the figures] and Chancellor's Roll, 27 Edw. I, Hibernia. He had been locum tenens for the preceding Justiciar since Jan 1294/5. Justiciary rolls [I.], vol i, p. 1. The next Justiciar was appointed 18 Oct 1295. Patent Roll, 23 Edw. I, m. 3.
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He married before 7 Feb 1283, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Berkeley, county Gloucester [Lord Berkeley], by Joan, daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby.
From "Complete Peerage England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britian" by George E Cokayne, CS421.G2 1982, v IV, page 234, Desmond:
Thomas FitzMorice, was called 'the Crooked Heir'. Annals of Ulster, vol ii, p392: Annals of Loch Ce, vol i, p. 520. Genealogists call him A nAppagh. "This young babe at the tyme of his father's death, being nursed and fostered at Traley; the report and rumor of this overthrow [at Callan where his father and grandfather were killed] comeing thither, suddainly the nurses running forth cryeing and lamenting, the childe was left all alone, when a monkey that was kept in the house tooke him out of the cradle, carryed him to the topp of the castle, there unwrapped him out of the swadling cloathes, licked and lapped the childe and folded ye child up in the cloathes againe, and . . . brought him down againe in safety, and left the sayd child where first he found him, and finding the nurse setting by the cradle, gave her a sound boxe on the eare, as it is thought thereby warneing and admonishing her to looke better hereafter to her charge." This whole episode has also been claimed as occurring to John FitzThomas, afterwards 1st Earl of Kildare. He was grandson and heir, being the son and heir of Morice Fitz John by Maud de Barry. He was only a few weeks old when his father was killed.
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He was born about Apr 1261. He reached his age shortly before 1 Apr 1282, according to a writ of that date. (Ch. Inq. p. m.-on John fitz Thomas-Edw. I, file 31, no. I. He came to England in 1282. Patent Rolls, 10 Edw. I, m. 15; 12 Edw. I, m. 20: Close Roll, 12 Edw. I, mn. 9, 5. He appears, from entries on the Patent rolls, to have been constantly in England till Feb 1291/2. On 4 Apr 1291 he witnessed a charter of Roger, Earl of Norfolk, dated at Berkeley. (Close Roll, 19 Edw. I, m. 5 d). The King took his homage and gave him livery of 1-1/2 cantreds in Thomond of which his grandfather, John fitz Thomas, had died seized, 8 Feb 1283/4, and the lands in Decies and Desmond of which his said grandfather had died seized, saving the King's right thereto, 9 May 1284. Subsequently, the King recovered these lands, on the grounds that he was a minor when he granted them, and that John fitz Thomas had intruded thereon without livery from the King or his ministers. But on 6 Feb 1291/2 the King gave to Thomas fitz Morice and Margaret his wife, the King's cousin, all the said lands of Decies and Desmond and the custody of the castle of Dungarvan, to hold, to them and the heirs of Thomas, at a rent of 200 marks a year, by the service of half a knight's fee: saving to the King the crosses [Creciis, crosses or cross lands, that is, Church lands exempt from the jurisdiction of the lords of the liberties. The calendars of the Carew MSS, vol. v, p. 404, translate the word absurdly as "profits of saffron" and Jeayes, Berkeley Charters, p. 147, as "all the saffron growing on the said lands."] in the same lands, and the said counties [of Waterford and Desmond], and the pleas and profits, &c, pertaining to those counties and to the Crown [Charter Roll, 20 Edw. I, m. 9: Patent Roll [I], antiquissime, no. 17].
Thomas was summoned for Military Service from 29 Jun 1294 [22 Edw. I] to 17 May 1297 [25 Edw I], by writs directed Thome filio Mauricii. Keeper (Custos) of Ireland, 19 Apr to 2 Dec 1295, holding the place and receiving the salary of Justiciar. He was paid for his services from 19 Apr to 2 Dec, as Keeper of Ireland, holding the place of Justiciar [worth £500 a year] for 196 days £269 16s. 1/2d., and as coming with an armed force from Munster to Leinster on account of the war in Ireland, for the other 31 days at 100s. a day £155. Pipe Roll [with a mistake in the figures] and Chancellor's Roll, 27 Edw. I, Hibernia. He had been locum tenens for the preceding Justiciar since Jan 1294/5. Justiciary rolls [I.], vol i, p. 1. The next Justiciar was appointed 18 Oct 1295. Patent Roll, 23 Edw. I, m. 3.
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He married before 7 Feb 1283, Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas de Berkeley of Berkeley, county Gloucester [Lord Berkeley], by Joan, daughter of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby.