John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond

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John FitzGerald
Earl of Desmond
Tenure1398-1399
PredecessorGerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
SuccessorThomas FitzJohn FitzGerald
Died4 March 1399
Ardfinnan
Cause of deathdrowning
BuriedYoughal
NationalityHiberno-Norman
Spouse(s)Mary Bourke or Joan of Fermoy
IssueThomas FitzJohn FitzGerald
Aveline (or Eleanor)
ParentsGerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Eleanor Butler
Norman Ireland, showing the earldoms of Desmond and Ormond

John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond (died 1398) was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond.[1][2] He married and had one son, Thomas, who succeeded him as Earl of Desmond.[1][2]

Alfred Webb states of the 4th Earl of Desmond: "In 1398 he disappeared, and is fabled to live beneath the waters of Lough Gur, near Kilmallock, on whose banks he appears once every seven years."[3]

Family of John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond
Maurice FitzJohn FitzGerald, son of John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond
Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Baron Desmond
Joan de Cogan of Carrigaline
Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond
Margaret de Barry
Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond
Nicholas FitzMaurice, 2nd Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw
Aveline fitz Nicholas
Slany O'Brien
John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond
Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick
James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond
Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond
Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford
Eleanor de Bohun
Joan de Bohun, Countess of Hereford
Eleanor Butler
Roger Darcy
John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, Justiciar of Ireland
Isabel d'Aton
Elizabeth Darcy
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Joan de Burgh
Margaret de Burgh
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Earl of Desmond
1st creation
1398–1399 		Succeeded by
  1. ^ a b Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204
  2. ^ a b Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Volume III. London: George Bell & Sons. 1890. p. 83
  3. ^ Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography. Dublin: 1878.
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