FITZGERALD, William

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• Name	FITZGERALD, William
  Birth	Abt 1106	Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  Gender	Male
  Death	1173	Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
  WAC	10 Jul 1919	SLAKE
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  Father	FITZGERALD, Gerald de ,   b. 1070, Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales Carew, Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 1136, Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales (Age 66 years)
  Mother	RHYSE, Princess Nest Verch ,   b. 1074, Dynevor, Carmarthshire, Wales Dynevor, Carmarthshire, Walesd. Bef 1136, Carmarthenshire, Wales (Age < 61 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1101	Windsor, Berkshire, England
  Family ID	F15339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	MONTGOMERY, Maria de ,   b. Abt 1125, Pembrokeshire, Wales Pembrokeshire, Walesd. 1 Sep 1176, Berkshire, England (Age 51 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1155
  Children	1. FITZGERALD, Raymond Le Grose   d. Abt 1188
  Family ID	F15571	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
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  William Fitz-Gerald, said to be the eldest son in the said pedigree. These contradictory pedigrees make it extremely difficult incontestably to settle seniority of these two sons; I shall therefore leave it to the reader's decision, with this remark, viz. That I presume, William's being made the eldest son, is founded on the authority of Giraldus Cambrensis, who was in the conquest of Ireland, concerning the arrival of Reymond le Grosse, writes, "that he was nephew to Robert Fitz-Stephen, and to Maurice Fitz-Gerald, "being the son unto their elder brother, named William." Lord Kerry's genealogist should have considered, before he had absolutely determined William to be the eldest son, that, if he was elder brother to Maurice, he could not be so to Robert Fitz-Stephen (Nesta, their Mother being the widow of Robert's father, when their father married her) and although, as Cambrensis was one of this family, and may on that account demand our credit; yet he is consured by Sir James willfully mistaken in this, as he does in a matter equally known to him, and that is observation he makes in his second book in these words, "And by the way, this one thing me thinks is very strange, that these three notables and the chiefest pillars of Ireland, namely Hervie, Reymond, and this John de Courcy, by God's secret (but not unjust) judgement, never had any lawful issue." Lord Kerry's pedigree-writer would not rely here on the authority of Cambrensis, but makes Reymond to have two sons by his wife; which we are inclined to think he had, because it is proved by a record, now in the Tower of London (a far better authority than G. Cambrensis) that Milo de Courcy, son of Sir John, was an hostage for his father, on his enlargement from the Tower, to fight the French Champion. From him descended the Family of Gerard, Earls of Macclesfield, which became extinct 26 Dec. 1702. Many other families of the name og Gerard in England, and also that of the Earl of Kerry, who all bore the coat armour, which the Earl of Kildare now does, distinguished with due differences. William succeeded his father in his office as Castellan of Pembroke, Lord of Carew and Emlyn. He lived at Pembroke and died there in 1173. He held two knights' fees in Hermitage County Buck, and the Manor of Sershot, County Berks, 9 Henry II. DEATH: Also shown as Died Pembroke Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales.