Honora Fitzmaurice
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Honora Fitzmaurice was a daughter of William, Lord Kerry, and a sister of the first Earl of Kerry, and she married Sir William Piers of Tristernagh. Through her the line reaches the FitzMaurice barons of Kerry and Lixnaw and, behind them, the Geraldines, the O'Briens of Thomond and the Roches of Fermoy. Her mother was Constance Long, a London wineseller's daughter, and it is Constance who explains the odd forename of her granddaughter Constantia.
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✓ NAMED AND DOCUMENTED 21 Jul 2026 (Burke's Peerage PIERS article; Cokayne Complete Baronetage III pp.308-09): HONORA, "eldest dau. of WILLIAM, 20TH LORD KERRY" (Burke's) / "SISTER OF THOMAS, 1ST EARL OF KERRY, da. of William (Fitzmaurice), Lord Kerry, by CONSTANCE, da. of WILLIAM LONG, of London" (Cokayne); m. in or before 1678 Sir William Piers, 2nd Bt, of Tristernagh (d. 1693); d. at Dublin, WILL PR. [I.] 1710 (a surviving-record pointer - her will abstract may name her children, incl. CONSTANTIA: worth a Betham/PROI abstract hunt someday). Mother of Constantia (m. Rev. Vere Hunt 1712 - our line). Direct ancestress. Added 21 Jul 2026; named and extended same day.