232 DE SAUMAREZ [James St. Vincent Broke Saumarez, s. and h. ap., b. 29 Nov. 1889, at Saumarez Hall, Guernsey; sometime Lieut. Scots Guards. Special Reserve. He served in the European War, and was reported wounded 24 Dec. 1914.0 He m., 30 Apr. 1914, Gunhild, yr. da. of Major Gen. Victor Gustav Balck, of Stockholm, Hon. K.C.M.G.] Family Estates. — These, in 1883, were under 2,000 acres. Livermere Park, with the Suffolk estates of the Brokes, has been acquired subse- quently. DESKFORD See "Ogilvy of Deskford," Barony [S.] {Ogilvy); cr. 1616. DESMONDC) Thomas fitz Anthony, Seneschal of Leinster, obtained from King John, 3 July 12 15, a grant of the custody of cos. Watertord and Des- mond — except the city of Waterford — and of the castles of Waterford and Dungarvan and the city of Cork, at a rent of 250 marks a year.^ Next day, 4 July, the custody of the lands and the heirs of Thomas fitz Morice were committed to him.('=) He d. before 26 Apr. 1227, when the King gave to Richard de Burgh the custody of cos. Cork and Water- ford and all the lands of Decies and Desmond, ^ which the late King had given to Thomas fitz Anthony at fee farm, and which Thomas had held at his death, together with the lands which Thomas had alienated therefrom, by sale, gift, or otherwise. (*) He left five daughters his coheirs. (') (i) Helen, wife of Gerald de la Roche. (2) Denise, or Dionis, wife of William de Cantelou: she d. s.p. (3) Isabel, wife of Geoffrey de Norragh (living 15 Aug. I247).(«) (*) For a list of peers and sons of peers who served in this war, see vol. viii, Appendix F. (•>) This article, down to the year 1462, is by G. W. Watson. V.G. (<=) Charter Roll, 17 Joh., m. 9: Fine Roll, 1 7-1 8 Joh., mm. 8, 9: Patent Roll, I 7 Joh., m. 20. A copy of his charter of incorporation of Grennan (now Thomas- town), CO. Kilkenny, is on the Patent Roll [I.], 32-33 Hen. VIII, m. 9 d. (^) Decies, i.e., Deisi or Deisi-Mumhan (Decies of Munster), so called to distin- guish it from Decies of Meath: it comprised nearly all of co. Waterford and the southern part of co. Tipperary. Desmond, i.e., Des-Mumha (South Munster). («) Patent Rolls, 1 1 Hen. Ill, w. 7; 27 Hen. Ill, mm. 21, 16; 31 Hen. Ill, m. 3: Cloie Roll, 22 Hen. Ill, m. 23. (') In 1 23 1-2 these 5 daughters and their husbands paid their reliefs for their purparties of the lands of Thomas fitz Anthony in Leinster and co. Waterford. {Pipe Roll l.'], 16 Hen. Ill — Report on Public Records [I], 1810-15, pp. 334-5). It is stated in the Ch. Inq. p. m. on John de Prendegaste, Edw. I, file 20, no. 11, that Gerald, Geoffrey, and Stephen, abovenamed, were against the King at the battle of Kildare [Cuirrech Liffe, i.e., the Curragh of Kildare, I Apr. I 234, where Richard, Earl Marshal, was mortally wounded], and therefore were unable to obtain their purparties of Decies and Desmond.
