William Fitz Gerard

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Gerard Pedigree, pg. 131, William Fitz Gerrard of Hawarden, uncle of Roger, Baron de Montalt; lord of a share of Kingsley fee, died after 44 Henry III. ⁷¹³

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁷³⁹
William Fitz Gerald, the eldest son of Gerald, was possessed of the castle of Kerriu, or Carrio, in Carmarthenshire, the inheritance of his mother. He died in 1173, and left issue:

Odo, from whom the numerous family of Carews descended Raymond Crassus, a principal sharer in the conquest of Ireland, who had a natural son named Maurice, from whom the lords Fitz Maurice of Kerry, in Ireland, descend from. Their other sons were Silvester, Henry and William.

~William Betham's Baronetage of England, p. 59

• Background Information. ¹²⁰⁹
William the son of Gerald Lord of Carrio and his wife Nesta, had issue of Raymond, Otho and others. Raymond married Basil, daughter of Gilbert and sister of Richard Strongbow, Earls of Pembrooke, but died without issue.

~"Carew's Pedigree," Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, p. 129

William married Catherine de Kingsley.