Sir Gerald DE PRENDERGAST , of Beauvoir
General Notes: Maud's paternal grandparents were Philip de Prendergast, Lord of Enniscorthy, Constable of Leinster, and Maud de Quincy, a granddaughter of Strongbow, through the latter's illegitimate daughter Basilie de Clare who married Robert de Quincy, Constable of Leinster. Her great-grandfather, Maurice de Prendergast, Lord Prendergast had played a prominent part in the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland led by Strongbow, and was rewarded with much land in counties Wexford, Waterford, Tipperary, Mayo, Wicklow, and Cork. Her maternal great-grandparents were William de Burgh and Mór O'Brien; Walter de Lacy, Lord of Trim and Margaret de Braose. Gerald married Mathilda DE BURGH, daughter of Richard Mór DE BURGH and Egidia DE LACY. |