Alison FitzEustace
d. 1495
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Alison FitzEustace was the wife of the Great Earl of Kildare and the mother of Margaret, the Great Countess of Ormond, so she stands at the junction of the two families that dominated late medieval Ireland.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (web-confirmed 25 Jul 2026): ALISON (Alice) FITZEUSTACE, dau. of Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester (Lord Chancellor/Treasurer of Ireland); first wife of the 8th Earl of Kildare; mother of Margaret (our line). Opens the FitzEustace barons of Portlester - note-only. Direct ancestress. Added 25 Jul 2026. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| ✓ CP VII p.232: 'He m., 1stly, about 1470, Alison, apparently da. and coh. of Rowland (FitzEustace), 1st Baron of Portlester [I.], by Joan, widow of Christopher (Plunket), 1st Lord Killeen. She, who inherited the manor of Portlester, co. Meath, d. in England, 22 Nov. 1495, and was bur. in the Grey Abbey of Kilcullen.' Mother added 26 Oct 2026. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. VII (1929), 'Kildare' pp.219-232, read 26 Oct 2026 (archive.org djvu text).