Nicholas Fitz Maurice

✓ DOCUMENTED (Source: Burke's Peerage (modern edn), LANSDOWNE lineage pp.2237-38, re-photographed and read 22 Jul 2026.): NICHOLAS FITZ MAURICE, 2ND BARON OF KERRY AND LIXNAW; knighted 1313; "ALLEGEDLY m. Slany, dau. of Connor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond" (Burke's own "allegedly" - the marriage ~); d. 1317. Children: WILLIAM - who killed Dermot Og, Chief of the MacCarthys, IN COURT before the Judge of Assize at Tralee 1325, "for which blinded but not executed, though his lands were forfeited" (NB the JCHAS 1920 article attributed this deed to "the 4th Lord" - variance, Burke's preferred); MAURICE 3rd Baron (collateral - captured by the 1st Earl of Desmond and SENTENCED TO DEATH BY STARVATION in prison at Castle Island, 16 Aug 1339; his son David d.v.p.); JOHN 4th Baron (our line); Aveline (m. her cousin the Earl of Desmond). Direct ancestor. Added 22 Jul 2026. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| Death corrected 1317 → c.1332: CP VII p.204 - custos of the peace 1307, knighted Christmas 1312, sheriff of the crosses of Kerry 1331, 'He appears to have d. in 1332' (his son Maurice succeeds as sheriff 1332). The 1325 killing of Dermot Oge MacCarthy on the bench at Tralee is attributed by CP to the son Maurice (3rd Baron), by Clyn to William FitzNicholas. 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).