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Maurice Roche 2nd Viscount Fermoy
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Maurice, second Viscount Roche, was one of the fifteen Irish peers summoned to Greenwich by Henry the Seventh in 1489, ranked second of the viscounts; he married the heiress of the Earl of Desmond.
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✓ MAURICE (ROCHE), 2nd VISCOUNT ROCHE OF FERMOY (fl.1485-89), summoned to Greenwich 1489, ranked next above Viscount Gormanstown; m. FIRSTLY Joan of Desmond (our line - CP explicitly makes the 3rd Viscount her son); m. 2ndly More O'Brien. Source: Cokayne, Complete Peerage (1st edn), 'Fermoy' pp.326-29, photographed and read 6 Aug 2026 (CP notes the pre-1461 pedigree 'extremely obscure'; contested rungs note-only, not hardened).