Maud DE PRENDERGAST

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Maud de Prendergast was an ancestress of most of the medieval noble families of England; through Elizabeth of York the current British royal family descends from her. Henry VIII's queens consort Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Catherine Howard, and Catherine Parr[4] were four of her many notable descendants.

Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly (17 March 1242 – before 1273),[1] was a Norman-Irish noblewoman, the first wife of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Justiciar of Ireland, and the mother of his two daughters, Juliana FitzGerald and Amabel. Maud was a descendant of Strongbow, the Irish kings of Leinster and Thomond, and Brian Boru. Her own descendants included most of the medieval noble families of England. She married three times; Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly was her third husband.

Maud married Maurice FitzMaurice FITZGERALD 3rd Lord of Offaly, son of Maurice FitzMaurice FITZGERALD , 2nd Lord of Offaly and Juliana DE GRENVILLE, after May 1258. (Maurice FitzMaurice FITZGERALD 3rd Lord of Offaly was born in 1238 and died on 2 Sep 1277 in Ross, County Wexford, Ireland.)