362 KERRY. would follow that n date Dot later thnn 1172 should be assigned to this dignity, while from the second it would seem that the date should he on or after 29 May 1223, which date is, in all probability, that of the origin of the peerage of Kingsale. The date of the two Dan nies [I.], Slaue and Delviu, next following that of Kerry (■'), is probably not before 1889.] Barony [I.] |. T IJO mas Fitz Maurice,(i>) s. ami li. of Maurice Fitz I. 1223 i Keymoxd, called Le tiros, sometime (1177) Chief Gov. of Ireland, by his first wife, Johanna, da. of Meyler Fitx Henry, who (also) was (1199 — 1203 and 1205 — 1208) Chiel Gov. of Ireland, IMC, his father in the large estates, co. Kerry, granted to bin ancestors, and may be considered^) as having in or eoon after May 1223, become a Peer, BARONt*) UK KLRRY AND LIXNAW. He founded the Grey Friary of Ardfert ill 1253. He m. Grany [or Grace] da. of Donihnal Caohhnagh [Cavanagh], son of LVrmod, King ok Leinstir. He d. at Hrowry, on the feast of St Peter and St. Paul [29 June], probably in or about 12C0( f ), and was bttT. at the Abbey of Ardfert. EL 1260? 2. Maurice Fitz Thomas (Fitz Maurice), Baeon or Kebry AND LIXNAW [1], s . and h. He sat in tho Pari, at Dublin iu 1275, and was sum. by King Edward L in U'97 to assist, with horse and arms, the invasion of Scotland. He m. Mary, da. and h. of Sir John MacLeod or Maceligott, of Galway, Chief of his name. He <l at Lixnaw 1303, and was far. as afsd. III. 1303. S, Nicholas (Fitz Maurice), Baron ok Kerry and Lixnaw [L], s. and h., who was Kniijhlcd at Adare in 1312 for assisting against a rebellion in SI mister. He served that year against the Scots. He m. Slany, da. of Connor O'Biuen, of Thomond. He rf. 132-1, and was bur at Ardfert. (8) {-) See p. 361, note "d." ( b ) The Geraldine family (of which this was a branch) were centuries ago spoken of a&"Ipsis Hibcrnis iJibcrnior," aptly paraphrased (by Thomas Davis) as " T he English monarchs sought in vain by law and force and bribo To win from Irish thoughts and ways this more than Irish tribe." This attribute is still more applicable to the two bl anches of the race which were settled in the south and the wild west (viz., the Earls of Desmond and the Barons of Kerry and Lixnaw) than to the Earls of Kildare, who lived near the English pale, and who, at all events, preserved throughout their Lwjhah nomenclature, while tho Barons of Kerry frequently adopted the Irish rendering of their name, Mac Maurice, or, Mac Morrish. Between 1200 and 1GC0 there were 19 Barons of Kerry, of whom 2 died unm. ; 4 married Geraldines. while no less than 12 married the daughters of native chiefs, O'Brians, O'Connors, Mac Carthys, Mac Mahons, &c. See an article on " The Fitzmam icei," signed " Mary liieksou," in " The Academy," 9 April, 1887. ( c ) See ohset caliims iu text on p. 361 . ( d j Seo vol. i, p. 172, note " f, sub. " Atheury," and p. xviii. (preface) uoto " a," as to the distinction between " Baro " and " Domiuus " in the early Irish Baronies. ( e ) The title is very variously given, sometimes as " Baron Kerry, Lixnaw, and Donkerron," Bometimes only as " Baron Lacknsnawy " [i.e., Lixnaw], &c. See vol. i, p. 172, note " f." It is called iu " Lodge " Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw and this seems the best rendering. The addition of " Dunkcrron " seems more modern and apparently on no valid authority. ( f ) The date in " Lodge" is 1280, but, if his mother was dead in 1177 (the date there given to his father's second marriage) he would then have been over 100 years old in 1280 which is hardly probable. (g) On kin death the title was usurped, for a year or two, by his brother, Matthias Fitz-Maurice, who m. Catharine Mao Carthy More, and had issue.
