358 FITZ-GERALD. FITZ-OERALD(") [of Offaly]. Barony(c) [I]. /, Maurice Fitz Gerald, who in 1176, was of L 1176? OFfaly,( b ) co. Kildare, was one of the 3 sons of Gerald Fm- Waltki:, Constable of Pembroke Castle, by Nesta, da. of llnYS ap. GruSydh ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of South Wales. He, being one of the first English invaders of Ireland in 1169, was at the taking of Dublin iu 1171, was appointed in 1172 Joint Warden of Dublin and received in 1176 ft grant of the Barony of Ollaly,( c ) Sc. He m. Alice, da. of Aruulph DK Montgomery, by Lafracoth, da. of Murrough O'Brien, King ok Ireland. Ho d. Sep. 1177, at Wexford and was bur. iu the Abbey of the Grey Friars there. II. 1177. 2. Gerald Fitz Maurice (Fitz-Gerald), Lord of Offaly, one of the sons (probably 1st s. and h ) of the above. He was, with his father in 1171, at the siege of Dublin. He is said to have been Lord Justice of Ireland and to have sat in the Pari. [I.] of 1205. Uo m, Katharine, da. of Hamo de Valois, Lord Justice [I.], 1197. He d. 1205. III. 1205. 3. Maurice Fitz-Gerald, Lord of Offaly, s. and h., b. 1195 ; obtaiued possession iu 1216 of Mayuooth aud other the lands of his father, receiving that year a grant of the Castle of Crom,( d ) &c Ho was Lord Justice [I.], 1229-30, as also iu 1232 till 1245( 0 ) when he was dismissed for his tardiness in assistiug the King iu his war with Wales. Ho introduced into Ireland the order of Franciscans in 1215 and of Dominicans iu 1216, founding the Abbey of Youghal in 1232, the Abbey of Sligo iu 1236 ; building also the Castles of Armagh aud of Sligo, <fcc. He »i. Juliana, da. of John de Cogak, joint Lord Justice [I.], 1217-48. He d. a monk at Youghal Monastery 20 May 1257, and was bur. there. IV. 1257. If. Maurice Fitz-Maurice (Fitz-Gerald), Lord of Offaly, 1st s. aud h. Lord Justice [I.], 1272-73. He m. Emnielina, da. and h. of Sir Stephen db Longespee (sometime, 1259-60, Lord Justice [I.]J, Lord of the territory of O'Murthy (s. of William, Eaiil OF Salisbury), by Emmeline, da. and coheir of Walter' dk Hidklskord, Lord of Bray aud of O'Murthy afsd. He d. at Ross 1277. His widow d. 1291. ( a ) The b.Mt account of this branch of the Geraldines is " The Earls of Kildare, 1057—1773," a work compiled by Charles William (Fitz Gerald), 4th Duke of Leinstor [I.], 1874-87, under his then style of Marquess of Kildare. It was first privately printed in 1857, but in June 1858, a third edition was published (pp. 330) to which, in 1862, was subjoined an "addenda " of 402 pages. l*>; "The Barony of Offaly " (as also "the Castle of Wicklow, in lieu of his Bhare of Wexford") was, iu 1176, granted to this Maurice by Earl Strongbow. See note " a," next above. ( c ) As to the question whether he or his successors can in any way be considered as holding a Peerage Barony in the sense now attributed thereto, see p. 83, note " c," iu6 "Desmond." In the "Earls of Kildare" (see note "a" above), Gerald who d. in 1205 is made the "first Baron," it being stated that "in 1205 he sat in the Pari, as Baron of Offaly, having been summoned 08 holding that Barony," but even allowing that the words in italics are capable of proof, no such summons in Ireland, could create a Barony ; so that in the text above (Gerald's father) the first teiritorial Baron is the first of whom an account is given. ( d ) Orom (Croom) and Shanet (Shanid) were two castles about sixteen miles apart in co. Limerick, one beiug the seat of the Geraldines of Kildare, and the other that of the Geraldines of Desmond, whose distinctive war cries were accordingly " Orom-a-boo" and " Shanct-a-boo." In 1495 an act of Pari, was passed (10 Hen. VII. o. 20) " to abolish the words Crom-a-boo and Butler-a-boo." The word "Abu" or " Aboo," an exclamation of defiance, was the usual termination of the war cries in Irelaud. See "Earls of Kildare," p. 20, as iu note "a." (») The murder of Richard (Marshall), Earl of Pembroke, iu April 1234 at Kilkenny took place during his tenure of office, for whose death he was (probably unjustly) much blamed.
