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Awny FitzMaurice (O’Brien)

Gaelic: Amy Mac-I-Brien-Ara
Also Known As: "Awny FitzGerald", "Amy"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Desmond, Munstser, Ireland
Death: 1537 (39-41)
Dingle, Kingdom Desmond, Munster, Ireland
Place of Burial: Turlough
Immediate Family:

Daughter of The Most Reverend Turlough O'Brien, Bishop of Killaloe and Mór O'Brien
Wife of James FitzMaurice Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Desmond and Edmond FitzMaurice, 9th or 10th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw
Mother of Joan Fitzgerald, Duchess of Ormond

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About Awny FitzMaurice

Amy Mac-I-Brien-Ara was the daughter of Turlogh Mac-I-Brien-Ara.1 She married, firstly, James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond, son of Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond.1 She married, secondly, Edmond FitzMaurice, 9th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, son of Thomas FitzMaurice, after 1529.1

Family

From http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/desmond1329.htm

James FitzMaurice [FizGerald], 10th Earl of Desmond married Amy O'Brien (mar. (2) as his second wife Edmond [FitzMaurice], 9th Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw; d. bef. 1537), only child of Toirdhealbhach O'Brien, Bishop of Kildare
only child

  • 1. Lady Joan FitzGerald (d. 2 Jan 1564/5; bur. at Askeaton), mar. (1) bef. 21 Dec 1532 James [Butler], 9th Earl of Ormonde and 2nd Earl of Ossory, (2) bef. 28 Aug 1548 Sir Francis Bryan, Knight Marshal and Lord Justice of Ireland (d. 2 Feb 1549/50), and (3) c 1551 as his first wife her second cousin Gerald FitzJames [FitzGerald], 14th Earl of Desmond
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Awny FitzMaurice's Timeline

1497
1497
Desmond, Munstser, Ireland
1509
1509
Desmond Castle, Kinsale, County Cork, Munster, Ireland
1537
1537
Age 40
Dingle, Kingdom Desmond, Munster, Ireland
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Turlough