Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond
Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond( d. 1358)( Maurice Óg) was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, and his first wife, Catherine de Burgh.
( Some sources list her as Margaret.)
The 2nd Earl married Beatrice de Stafford, daughter of Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford and Margaret Audley, but died without any male issue, and was therefore succeeded in the Earldom of Desmond by his half- brother Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond.
FitzGerald's widow married
Thomas de Ros, 4th Baron de Ros around a year after FitzGerald's death.
James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond
James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond( d. 1462), called' the Usurper', was the youngest son of Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond, and Lady Eleanor, daughter of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond.
John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond
John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond( died 1399) was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond.
He married and had one son, Thomas, who succeeded him as Earl of Desmond.
According to Burke, John FitzGerald married Joan Roche, the daughter of Lord Fermoy.
In March 1399 FitzGerald drowned at Ardfinnan on the River Suir, and was buried at Youghal.
He was succeeded by his son Thomas FitzJohn FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Desmond.
Diana Mitford
Diana, the Hon.
Lady Mosley (17 June 191011 August 2003), born Diana Freeman-Mitford and usually known as Diana Mitford, was one of the Mitford sisters.
She was first married to Bryan Walter Guinness, heir to the barony of Moyne, and with whom she was part of the Bright young things social group of Bohemian young aristocrats and socialites in 1920s London.
Her marriage ended in divorce as she was pursuing a relationship with Sir Oswald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats, leader of the British Union of Fascists.
She married Mosley at the home of Joseph Goebbels in 1936, with Adolf Hitler as guest of honour.
Subsequently, her involvement with Fascist political causes resulted in three years' internment during the Second World War.
She later moved to Paris and enjoyed some success as a writer.
In the 1950s she contributed diaries to "Tatler" and edited the magazine "The European".
In 1977, she published her autobiography, "A Life of Contrasts", and two more biographies in the 1980s.
Her appearance on the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1989 was controversial.
She was also a regular book reviewer for "Books & Bookmen" and later at "The Evening Standard" in the 1990s.
A family friend, James Lees-Milne, wrote of her beauty, "She was the nearest thing to Botticelli's Venus that I have ever seen".
She was described as "unrepentant" about her previous political associations by obituary writers such as the historian Andrew Roberts.
John FitzGerald, de facto 12th Earl of Desmond
John FitzGerald, de facto 12th Earl of Desmond( died December 1536) was the brother of Thomas FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Desmond.
Upon his brother's death in 1534, John disputed the title to the earldom of his brother's grandson, James FitzGerald, de jure 12th Earl of Desmond.
According to the" Annals of the Four Masters", John FitzThomas FitzGerald was believed to have instigated the murder of his older brother, James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond in 1487, and had been expelled by his brother Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond.
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Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond
Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald( 1335 – 1398), also known by the Irish Gaelic" Gearóid Iarla"( Earl Gerald), was the 3rd Earl of Desmond, in southwestern Ireland, under the first creation of that title, and a member of the Hiberno- Norman dynasty of the FitzGerald, or Geraldines.
He was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, by his third wife Aveline( Eleanor), daughter of Nicholas FitzMaurice, 3rd Lord of Kerry.
He was half- brother to Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond.
Maurice Fitzgerald, 2nd Earl of Desmond, would have been followed by Gerald's older brother, Nicholas, but Nicholas was described as" an idiot", and so was passed over for the earldom.
Because of this, some older histories list Gerald as the 4th Earl.
Desmond Guinness
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Desmond Walter Guinness (born 8 September 1931) is an Anglo-Irish author on Georgian Art and Architecture and a conservationist.
He is the second son of the author and brewer Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron Moyne and Diana Mitford (later Lady Mosley).
He was educated at Eton, Gordonstoun and Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1958, he bought Leixlip Castle, Leixlip, County Kildare, Ireland, where he continues to live with his second wife, the former Penelope Cuthbertson, whom he married in 1984.
As a member of the extended Guinness family, he has a number of well-known relatives, such as Garech Browne.
He has been Master of the North Kildare Harriers.
Patrick Guinness
Patrick Desmond Carl Alexander Guinness, KCEG KLJ( born 1 August 1956 in Dublin) is an Irish historian and author and one of heirs of the Guinness business dynasty.
Son of Desmond Guinness and Marie- Gabrielle von Urach, he was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College Dublin.
He is a financial analyst.
He formerly represented Sotheby's in Ireland.
Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond
Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond( died 1520) was the brother of James FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Desmond.
James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond
James FitzGerald( c. 1570 – November 1601), an Irish nobleman, was the successor of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.
He assumed the title of Earl of Desmond, which had been suppressed in 1582 after the Desmond Rebellions.
He spent much of his life in captivity, and was temporarily, but unsuccessfully, restored to the earldom in 1600 – 01 by the English in an attempt to pacify Munster during the Nine Years War.
He thus became the 1st Earl of Desmond, but soon returned to England, where he died in obscurity.

Question: Where was the place of death of Desmond Guinness's mother?
Answer: Paris