Joan fitz Maurice
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Joan fitz Maurice was the second wife of the fifth Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw and his cousin, and the mother of his heir Patrick, called the Bearded.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Source: Burke's Peerage (modern edn), LANSDOWNE lineage pp.2237-38, re-photographed and read 22 Jul 2026.): JOAN FITZ MAURICE, "his cousin" - 2nd wife of the 5th Baron and mother of his heir Patrick the 6th (our line). Her exact placement in the kindred not stated. Direct ancestress. Added 22 Jul 2026. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| ✓ CP VII p.205: Joan FitzMaurice, 2nd wife; dispensation 27 Feb 1398/9 (Cal. Papal Letters v p.255) legitimising the children. Patrick the 6th Baron is 's. and h.' - by this marriage given the 1364 death of the first wife's only son. Her parentage not given. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. VII (1929), 'Kerry' pp.201-214 (article by J. Brownbill, revised by G.H. Orpen), read 25-26 Oct 2026 (archive.org djvu text).