John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond

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 1399) 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]

According to Burke, John FitzGerald married Joan Roche, the daughter of Lord Fermoy.[1] On 4 March 1399, FitzGerald drowned at Ardfinnan on the River Suir, returning from an incursion into the territory of the Earl of Ormond..[3]

He was buried at Youghal, and succeeded by his son Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Desmond.[1]

  1. ^ a b c d 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. ^ Ireland and her people; a library of Irish biography, (Thomas W. H. Fitzgerald, ed.), Fitzgerald Book Company, 1910, p. 188Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.