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FITZGERALD, See also:RAYMOND, or See also:REDMOND (d. ca. 1182)  , surnamed Le See also:Gros, was the son of See also:William See also:Fitzgerald and See also:brother of See also:Odo de See also:Carew . He was sent by Strongbow to See also:Ireland in 1170, and landed at Dundunnolf, near See also:Waterford, where he was besieged in his entrenchments by the combined Irish and Ostmen, whom he repulsed . He was Strongbow's second in command, and had the See also:chief See also:share in the See also:capture of Waterford and in the successful See also:assault on See also:Dublin . He was sent to See also:Aquitaine to See also:hand over Strongbow's conquests to See also:Henry II., but was hack in Dublin in See also:July 1171, when he led one of the sallies from the See also:town . Strongbow offended him later by refusing him the See also:marriage of his See also:sister Basilea, widow of See also:Robert de Quenci, See also:con-See also:stable of See also:Leinster . See also:Raymond then retired to See also:Wales, and See also:Hervey de Mountmaurice became See also:constable in his See also:place . At the outbreak of a See also:general See also:rebellion against the See also:earl in 1174 Raymond returned with his See also:uncle Meiler Fitz Henry, after receiving a promise of marriage with Basilea . Reinstated as constable he secured a See also:series of successes, and with the fall of See also:Limerick in See also:October 1175 See also:order was restored . Mountmaurice meanwhile obtained Raymond's recall on the ground that his See also:power threatened the royal authority, but the constable was delayed by a fresh out-break at Limerick, the earl's troops refusing to See also:march without him . On the See also:death of Strongbow he was acting See also:governor until the arrival of William Fitz See also:Aldhelm, to whom he handed over the royal fortresses . He was deprived of his estates near Dublin and See also:Wexford, but the Geraldines secured the recall of Fitz Aldhelm See also:early in 1183, and regained their power and See also:influence . In 1182 he relieved his uncle Robert Fitzstephen, who was besieged in See also:Cork .

The date of his death, sometimes stated to be 1182, is not known .

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