Blanche de la Roche
- Born: Abt 1268, Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
- Marriage: John Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare in ` 141,991
- Died: After Feb 1330 141
 Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 141
John Fitz Gerald, married Blanche, daughter of John Roche, baron of Fermoy. He died 12 September 1316, at Laraghbryan, near Maynooth, and was buried in the Church of the Friars Minor at Kildare. His widow received dower from. her son Thomas in 1316/7. She was living in February 1329/30, when as Blanche de Roche, Countess of Kildare, she received an acquittance of all claims from Stephen de Aqua.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, pp. 218-221
• Background Information. 991
John Fitz Gerald, Earl of Kildare, married Blanche Roche, daughter of John, Baron of Fermoy. They had two sons and two daughters: Gerald, who died young in 1303; Thomas, second Earl of Kildare; Joan, married in 1302 to Sir Edmund Butler, created Earl of Carrick, ancestor of the Marquis of Ormonde; and Elizabeth, married to sir Nicholas Netterville, ancestor of the Viscounts of Netterville.
~The Earls of Kildare, p. 28
Blanche married John Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare, son of Sir Thomas Fitz Gerald Knight and Rohesia de St. Michael Lord of Rheban, in ` 141.,991 (John Fitz Gerald Earl of Kildare was born in 1255 in Banada, Silgo, Ireland, died on 12 Sep 1316 in Laraghbryan, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland 141 and was buried in Friar's Minor Church, Kildare, Ireland 991.)
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