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248 DESMOND Barrymore [I.], by Ellen, da. of Lord Roche [!.].(') He was found guilty of extorting " coyne and livery " by a Pari, held at Drogheda, where he was beheaded 15 Feb. 1467/8, C") and bur. in St. Peter's Church, but subsequently removed to Christ Church, Dublin.('=) His widow m., as 2nd wife, Maurice Mor FitzGibbon, the White Knight, who was living 1496. VIII. 1468. 8. James FitzThomas (FitzGerald), Earl of Des- mond [1.], s. and h., who received considerable grants from the King.C^) Constable of Limerick Castle 29 June 1476. He m. Margaret, da. of Teige O'Brien, Prince of Thomond. He d. s.p.m., 7 Dec. 1487, aged 28, being murdered "by the stroke of a bullet" at the instigation of his yr. br., Sir John of Desmond, at his house Courtmontresse, near Rathkeale, co. Limerick. He was bur. at Youghal. IX. 1487. 9. Maurice FitzThomas (FitzGerald), Earl of Desmond [I.], called Bacagh {i.e. "the lame") or 0/ i/ie Chariot (from being generally so carried), called also Bellicosus, br. and h. male. On 7 Apr. 1488 he had lie. of entry into his lands as if he had sued out livery. He was one of the 15 Irish Peers sum. by Henry VII in 1489 to England, but did not obey the summons.(*) He joined the rising for Perkin Warbeck, and laid siege to Waterford from (*) In previous accounts he is said to have m. Elizabeth, da. of John Kittagh (Barry), 7th Lord Barry, by Elh'ce, da. of Gerald (FitzGerald), 3rd Earl of Desmond. V.G. (*>) John (Tiptoft), Earl of Worcester, the Chief Governor, through whom this act was carried out, was himself executed 18 Oct. 1470, for this and other acts of injustice. The story runs that Elizabeth Widville, the Queen Consort, who was a bitter enemy to Desmond, had procured (privately) a privy seal warrant for his arrest and execution. According to the Four Masters, this Earl was "the most illustrious of his tribe in Ireland in his time, for his comeliness and stature, for his hospitality and chivalry, his charity and humanity to the poor." ("=) Sir Gerald FitzThomas (FitzGerald), called Gerald Oge, his 5th son, slain in 1477, was ancestor of James, who but for the attainder would, apparently, in 1687 have been entitled to the Earldom. Ste post, p. 257, note " b." () In Sep. 1484, Richard III intimated to the Earl his desire "to receive him into tender favour, both for his nobleness of blood, and for the manifold services and kindnesses rendered by the Earl's father, at great jeopardies and charges to himself, to the Duke of York, the King's father." He also requested the Earl to renounce "the wearing and usage of the Irish array," and to adopt English apparel. The Bishop of Enachdun was authorized to receive his oath of allegiance, and to deliver to him the King's livery, consisting of a collar of gold with his cognizance of a white boar pendant from a circlet of roses and suns. (Gilbert's Viceroys of Ire/and). V.G. (*) See their names in vol. i. Appendix A, Table of Ranking. The cause of this summons is stated to be as under: " The King being still jealous of the nobility of Ireland, whom he knew to be exceedingly addicted to the House of York, sent for most of them [in 1489] to come over to him into England."