Some recently constructed genealogies purport that she was first married, some time after 1347, to Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (d. 25 August 1390) and by him had at least four children.
Yet it is more consistent with known dates of death of the 4th Earl of Kildare that he married instead Margaret, a daughter of the 1st Baron Burghersh.
It is impossible that Elizabeth, wife of Maurice FitzGerald is the lady who remarried 2ndly Edward le Despencer.
The reason is that Maurice died on 25 August 1390,[2] well before Edward le Despencer's marriage.
Upon the death of her father on 5 April 1369, she inherited the title of Baroness Burghersh.