Philip de Prendergast, Lord of Duffy

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Sir Philip DE PRENDERGAST, Lord Of Enniscorthy, Constable Of Leinster [2064] Born: Abt 1170, , , Ireland Marriage: Maude DE QUINCY [2065]

Source <The journal of the Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland ..., Volume 9> Par Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland Archaeological Society:

"... In 1206, King John granted to Philip de Prendergast, eldest son of Strongbow's famous companion, Maurice, a large territory near Cork, of which Beauver (Bebh Or, the golden rock?) was the chief seat, and which included Shandon, Ocorblethan, and the whole or greater part of Kerricurrihy. At about the same time, five knights' fees in the same neighbourhood were confirmed by John to Richard de Cogan, to whom Fitz Stephen had granted them. (Harris' Ware, ii. 195.)

"In these estates, as well as in the Lordship of Enniscorthy, and Barony of Duffryn, county Wexford, Philip was succeeded by his eldest son Gerald. This Gerald was twice married; first to Matilda, daughter of Theobald le Botiller, by whom he had a daughter, Maria; and secondly, to a daughter of Richard de Burgo, whose name I have not found, by whom he had another daughter, Matilda. ..." ___________________________ Source <A visitation of the seats and arms of the noblemen and gentlemen of Great ...> Par Sir Bernard Burke: "Maurice de Prendergast ...

Philip, his only son, acquired Kinsellagh and the Duffren, co. Wexford, with Isolda, the sole heir of Robert de Quiney, Constablo and Standard-bearer of Leinster, and she should also have succeeded to these heritable offices; but though her rights were acknowledged, the powerful Raymond le Gross made the constablesbip the price of his consent to command the then disheartened English, and the turbulent army despised the justice of an infant girl's claim. Philip de Prendergast was summoned as baron in 1205 and 1221, and his grandson, Jeffrey, to whom his lands in Tipperary, Cork, and Watcrford, descended, was fined one hundredshillings in 1281 for not attending parliament. His descendant, John Prendergast, of Newcastle, was made Sheriff of Tipperary during the king's pleasure in 1359 (> (as his father. Jeffrey, hud been in 1327), and " Sir Morres Pryndyrgas' sonnes" appear among " the Englyshe lords and noble folk of Munster," in a return called for by Henry VIII. (State Papers, A.d. 1516.)" ____________________________ Source <The St. James's magazine: and heraldic and historical register, Volume 2> publié par Sir Bernard Burke: "Philip de Prendergast, the only son of Sir Maurice, was a baron of great wealth and power. He married the only child of Robert De Quincy, Constable and Standard-bearer of Leinster, who was killed shortly after his marriage (with, the chroniclers tell us, a daughter of Strongbow's) in a fight with the O'Dempseys of Offaley. With her, Prendergast, obtained the county of Kinsellagh, the towns of Enniscorthy and Ferns, and the territory of the Duffren, in Wexford, ..."

Philip married Maude DE QUINCY [2065] [MRIN: 1168], daughter of Sir Robert DE QUINCY, Lord Of Long Buckby, Constable Of Leinster [2067] and Basilia DE CLARE [2068]. (Maude DE QUINCY [2065] was born about 1172 in , , Ireland.)