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THE IDENTITY OF EMELINE DE
REDDESFORD.
(11 S. viii. 66, 171, 253.)
I trust Mr. St. Clair Baddeley will excuse the delay in my expressing my thanks to him for his interesting reply at the second of the above references, but I delayed doing so in the hope that there might be some further communications in your columns upon the subject to answer, to the writers of which I might, at the same time, acknowledge my indebtedness. None such having appeared, however. I will no longer postpone thanking him. and I trust he will forgive me if I also take this opportunity of offering a few remarks upon some of his statements.
Before doing so, however, it is necessary to draw his attention to the pedigree below, which has reached me, through a friend, from Lord Walter FitzGerald in reply to my original communication, because upon that pedigree some of the comments I am venturing to make are based.
Possibly Lord Walter's name is not unknown to your correspondent as that of a very enthusiastic antiquary in all matters relating to Kildare. This pedigree is as follows:—
The descendants of Walter de Riddlesford, Baron of Bray.
Amabilis (filia Henrici) FitzHenry, ? sister of Meiler Fitz-Henry, Justiciar of Ireland 1199-1203. Their father Henry was a natural son of King Henry I. by the Princess Nesta, daughter of Rhys ap Tudor, Prince of South Wales.
(Gilbert's 'Register of St. Thomas's Abbey, Dublin,' p. 369.)
Walter de Riddlesford, Baron of Bray, co. Wicklow, and Lord of Kilkea and Dysart (now Castle) Dermot, co. Kildare, liv. 1237, † ante 1244 (according to Archdall's edition of Lodge's 'Peerage of Ireland,' vol. i. p. 120, he died in 1243).
Alianore de Viteri.
(Gilbert's 'Viceroys of Ireland,' p. 105.)
William de Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, a natural son of King Henry II. "by the Fair Rosamond de Clifford." † 1226.
(Burke's 'Extinct Peerage,' under 'D'Evereux.')
Ela D'Evereux, d. and heir of William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, by his wife, Alianor de Vitrei.
(Burke's 'Extinct Peerage,' p. 167.)
Robert de Marreis, or Mariscis, brother of Geoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland. † c. 1240.
Ela de Riddlesford, the second daughter. Died before her husband.
Lesceline de Verdon, d. of Bertram de Verdon.
Hugh (son of Hugh) de Lacy, Constable of
Emelina de Riddlesford, the eldest liv. 1276.
c. 1243 Stephen de Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland, daughter, 1259.
Ireland in 1259. Slain in 1260.
David Fitz-Gerald, Baron of Naas, co. Kildare.
and Earl of Ulster. † 1242.
Ebulo de Geneve, liv. 1253.
Christiana de Mariscis, only daughter and heir, liv. 1305.
Walter de Burgh, Lord of Connaught, and Earl of Ulster (in 1264). † 1271. His widow was Evelina, d. of John Fitz-Geoffrey, Justiciar of Ireland in 1245.
Maud or Matilda de Lacy. † 1303.
Roger la Zouche. † 1285.
Ela de Longespee.
Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Baron of Offaly, ancestor of the Earls of Kildare and Dukes of Leinster. † 1286.
Emelina de Longespee, liv. 1306.
Sources of information:—
Burke's 'Extinct Peerage.'
Calendars of Documents, Ireland.
Gilbert's 'Viceroys of Ireland.'
G. H. Orpen's 'Song of Derinot and the Earl.'
G. H. Orpen's 'The Earldom of Ulster,' Journal U.S.A. Ire., vol. for 1913, p. 33.
