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John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald
Earl of Desmond
Tenure	1398-1399
Predecessor	Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald
Successor	Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald
Died	4 March 1399; Ardfinnan
Cause of death	drowning
Buried	Youghal
Nationality	Hiberno-Norman
Spouse(s)	Mary Bourke or Joan of Fermoy
Issue	Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald; Aveline (or Eleanor)
Parents	Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald; Eleanor Butler

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]

Ancestors of John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond

Maurice FitzJohn FitzGerald, son of John FitzGerald, 1st Baron Desmond

Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Baron Desmond

Joan de Cogan of Carrigaline

Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond

Margaret de Barry

Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond

Nicholas FitzMaurice, 2nd Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw

Aveline fitz Nicholas

Slany O'Brien

John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond

Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick

James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond

Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick

James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond

Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford

Eleanor de Bohun

Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

Eleanor Butler

Roger Darcy

John Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy de Knayth, Justiciar of Ireland

Isabel d'Aton

Elizabeth Darcy

Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster

Joan de Burgh

Margaret de Burgh

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

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Gerald FitzGerald	Earl of Desmond 1st creation 1398–1399	Succeeded by Thomas FitzGerald

[Burke-1] Burke, Bernard, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison. 1866. p. 204

[Cokayne-2] 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. 188 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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