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Birth:          1281 Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
Death:          2 May 1320 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_FitzGerald,_Countess_of_Carrick
Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick (1281 – 2 May 1320) was an Irish noblewoman, 
and the wife of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, Justiciar of Ireland (1268 – 13 
September 1321). She was the mother of James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond.
Family[edit]

Joan FitzGerald was born in Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland, in 1281, the daughter of John 
FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare, Baron of Offaly, and Blanche de La Roche. 
She had two brothers, Gerald (died 1303), and Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare 
(died 5 April 1328), who married Joan de Burgh (c. 1300 – 23 April 1359), daughter of 
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and Margaret de Burgh of Lanvalley, by whom 
he had issue. Joan had one sister, Elizabeth, who married Nicholas Netterville, by 
whom she had issue.

Joan FitzGerald's paternal grandparents were Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald and 
Rohesia de St. Michael, and her maternal grandparents were John de La Roche, Lord 
of Fermoy, and Maud de Waleys (Walsh). The latter was a daughter of Henry le 
Walleis, Mayor of London.

Marriage and issue[edit]

In 1302, Joan married Sir Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, the son of Theobald le 
Botiller (1242–1285) and Joan FitzJohn (FitzGeoffrey) (died 4 April 1303). The marriage 
produced two sons:
James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (1305 – 6 January 1338), who married Lady Eleanor 
de Bohun (17 October 1304 – 7 October 1363), by whom he had four children, 
including James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond who in his turn married Elizabeth Darcy 
and had issue, from whom descended the subsequent Earls of Ormond.
John Butler of Clonamicklon

In 1307, Sir Edmund and Joan's father dispersed rebels in Offaly who had burnt the 
town of Leix and destroyed the castle of Geashill.

In 1315, Sir Edmund Butler was appointed Justiciar of Ireland.

That same year, in July, Joan's husband and her father led the Munster and Leinster 
contingent of armed forces who were allied with the combined armies of Richard de 
Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster and Felim mac Aedh Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht 
against the Scottish and Irish troops of Edward Bruce who had been crowned King Of 
Ireland at Carrickfergus. They were repelled by Bruce, at the River Bann near 
Coleraine and forced to retreat. Sir Edmund, due to lack of supplies, returned to 
Ormond.

Edward Bruce was later killed in 1318, at the Battle of Faughart.

On 1 September 1315, for services against the Scottish raiders and Ulster rebels, 
Edmund Butler was granted a charter of the castle and manor of Karryk Macgryffin and 
Roscrea to hold to him and his heirs sub nomine et honore comitis de Karryk. 
However, the charter, while creating an Earldom, failed to make Edmund Butler's issue 
Earls of Carrick.[1]

Joan's father, John FitzThomas FitzGerald, died a year later on 10 September 1316, 
several months after being created Earl of Kildare by King Edward II.

Death[edit]

Joan FitzGerald died on 2 May 1320 in Laraghbryan, County Kildare. She was the 
ancestress of the earls of Ormond, the queen consort Anne Boleyn and Diana, 
Princess of Wales.

Parents
FITZ GERALD John Fitz Thomas (ABT 1250 - 12 Sep 1316)
DE LA ROCHE Blanche ()

Siblings
FITZ GERALD Joan (1281 - 2 May 1320)

Marriage To BUTLER (LE BOTELER) Edmund (1268 - 13 Sep 1321)
    m. 1302 

Notes

Parents
BUTLER (LE BOTILLER) (BOTELER) Theobald (1242 - 26 Sep 1285)
FITZ JOHN Joan (ABT 1238 - 4 Apr 1303)

Children by BUTLER (LE BOTELER) Edmund 1268 - 13 Sep 1321
BUTLER (LE BOTILLER) James (1305 - 6 Jan 1338)

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