FITZGERALD FAMILY
I. KILDARE LINE
Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Died: BEF 1136
Notes: younger son of Walter Fitzother, Constable of Pembroke, to whom King Henry I gave the Manor of Moulesford in Berkshire. He married Nest, dau. of the last King of Deheubarth. Nest (called the "Helen of Troy of Wales") had a son by Henry I. Gerald was officer to Arnulf De Montgomery and a great favorite of Henry I, from whom he received Moulsford in Berkshire.
Father: Walter FITZOTHER of Windsor (Keeper of the Forrest)
Mother: Beatrice ?
Married: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth) (dau. of Rhys Ap Tudor Mawr, Prince of Wales, and Gwladus Verch Rhiwallon) (assoc. with Henry I, King of England - m.2 Stephen, Constable of Cardigan) BEF 1100
Children:
1. Maurice FITZGERALD De WINDSOR
2. David FITZGERALD De WINDSOR (Bishop of St. Davids)
Father: Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Mother: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth)
Married: Robert De BASKERVILLE
Children:
1. Walter BASKERVILLE (b. 1130 - d. 1168)
2. Robert BASKERVILLE (b. 1132 - d. 1173)
3. Richard BASKERVILLE (Sir) (b. 1134 - d. 1177)
Notes: at the death of her brother in 1175, her son Gerald was unanimously elected Bishop of St. David's by the Welsh and English canons of the diocese. By the time he was 13 years old his father and uncle, then the Bishop of St. David's, had taken to calling him "the little Bishop". Soon he was sent away to a monastery to begin his religious education early. But King Henry II immediately sensed the political implications and would not accept this able and ambitious young man (Gerald was 29 years old) as a potential Archbishop. Five years before Beckett had proved troublesome to Henry and he was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral.
Father: Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Mother: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth)
Married: William De BARRY of Manorbier
Children:
1. Robert De BARRY
2. Phillip De BARRY
3. Gerald De BARRY of Wales (b. ABT 1146) (Chaplain to Henry II)
David FITZGERALD De WINDSOR (Bishop of St. Davids)
Born: ABT 1099
Died: 1176
Notes: Bishop of the diocese of St. Davids in Wales.
Father: Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Mother: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth)
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
1. Milo FITZBISHOP of Iverk
Died: 1173, Pembroke, Wales
Notes: Succeed his father in his office as castellan of Pembroke, lord of Carew and Emlyn. He lived at Pembroke and died there in 1173. He held 2 knights' fees in Hermitage, co. Bucks, and the Manor of Spershot, Co. Berks, 9 Henry II.
Father: Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Mother: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth)
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Odo De CAREW
3. Griffin FITZGERALD (B. Knocktopher)
4. Richard FITZWILLIAM De La MARE
5. Ralph FITZWILLIAM
6. William FITZWILLIAM FITZGERALD (Justice of Eyre)
7. Robert FITZWILLIAM
William FITZWILLIAM FITZGERALD (Justice of Eyre)
Notes: ancestor of Gerard of Bryn Earl of Macclesfield and others.
Father: William FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Dau. KINGSLEY
Father: William FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Walkeing De HARANG
Died: ABT 1188
Buried: Abbey of Morlana, near unto Youghal
Notes: after his death the Carews were issued from Odo who had all his lands (in co. Carlow) but Raymond's natural sons, Walter and Richard, succeeded to the lands in co. Cork which he had of Robert Fitz-Stephen.
Father: William FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Priscilla De CLARE (dau. of Gilbert De Clare, sister to Richard De Clare alias Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke)
Associated with: ¿?
Children:
1. Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (1º B. Cork)
2. Walter FITZGERALD
Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (1º B. Cork)
Died: 1199
Father: Raymond FITZGERALD le Gros
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Robert FITZGERALD De CAREW (2º B. Cork)
Robert FITZGERALD De CAREW (2º B. Cork)
Died: 1245
Father: Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (1º B. Cork)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (3º B. Cork)
Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (3º B. Cork)
Died: 1272
Father: Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (1º B. Cork)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Maurice FITZGERALD De CAREW (4º B. Cork)
Maurice FITZGERALD De CAREW (4º B. Cork)
Died: ABT 1319
Father: Richard FITZGERALD De CAREW (3º B. Cork)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Thomas FITZGERALD De CAREW (5º B. Cork)
Thomas FITZGERALD De CAREW (5º B. Cork)
Died: ABT 1399
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD De CAREW (4º B. Cork)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Born: 1100
Died: 1 Sep 1176, Wexford, Ireland
Notes: Known as the Invader of Ireland. B. Lanstephen. Went into Ireland with Earl Strongbow and died there, of whom the Geraldines Earls of Kildare are descended. Derwent Mac Morrough gave him Wexford town and Henry II took it away.
Father: Gerald De WINDSOR (Constable of Pembroke Castle)
Mother: Nest Ap RHYS (Princess of Deheubarth)
Married: Alice De MONTGOMERY (b. BET 1100 / 1105)
Children:
1. Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (1° B. Offaly)
2. Alexander FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
3. William FITZGERALD (1º B. Naas)
4. Maurice FITZGERALD of Kiltrany
5. Thomas FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD De WINDSOR
Mother: Alice De MONTGOMERY
Married: Hervey De MONTMORENCY (Constable of England)
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD De WINDSOR
Mother: Alice De MONTGOMERY
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD
2. Thomas FITZGERALD
William FITZGERALD (1º B. Naas)
Died: ABT 1199
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD De WINDSOR
Mother: Alice De MONTGOMERY
Married: Alina De CLARE
Children:
1. William FITZGERALD (2º B. Naas)
William FITZGERALD (2º B. Naas)
Father: William FITZGERALD (1º B. Naas)
Mother: Alina De CLARE
Married: Maud ?
Children:
1. David FITZGERALD (3º B. Naas)
Died: ABT 1260
Father: William FITZGERALD (2º B. Naas)
Mother: Maud ?
Married: Maud De LACY (b. ABT 1234)
Children:
1. William FITZGERALD (4º B. Naas)
2. Robert FITZGERALD (5º B. Naas)
3. Hugh FITZGERALD (6º B. Naas)
4. Maud FITZGERALD
5. Lesceline FITZGERALD
6. Rose FITZGERALD
Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (1° B. Offaly)
Born: ABT 1150, probably Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died: BEF 15 Jan 1203/4
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD De WINDSOR
Mother: Alice De MONTGOMERY
Married 1: Catherine De VALOIS
Married 2: Eve De BERMINGHAM (d. BEF Dec 1226) (dau. of Robert De Birmingham) BEF 1190
Children:
1. Maurice FITZGERALD (2º B. Offaly)
Maurice FITZGERALD (2º B. Offaly)
Born: ABT 1190, probably Offaly, Ireland
Acceded: 2 Sep 1232
Died: 1257, Youghal Monastery, Cork, Ireland
Buried: Youghal Monastery, Cork, Ireland
Notes: Justiciar of Ireland. The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (1° B. Offaly)
Mother: Eve De BERMINGHAM
Married: Julianne De COGAN (b. ABT 1210)
Children:
1. Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
2. Maurice FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (Lord Justice of Ireland)
3. Thomas FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
Born: ABT 1220
Died: 1243, Gascony
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (2º B. Offaly)
Mother: Julianne De COGAN
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Maurice FITZGERALD (3º B. Offaly)
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married 1: John De COGAN
Children:
1. John De COGAN
Married 2: John De PENRHYS
Maurice FITZGERALD (3º B. Offaly)
Died: Jul 1268, drowned crossing to Ireland
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Gerald FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Agnes De VALENCE 1266
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD (4º B. Offaly)
Gerald FITZGERALD (4º B. Offaly)
Died: 1287
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (3º B. Offaly)
Mother: Agnes De VALENCE
Married: Joan De GENEVILLE
Maurice FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (Lord Justice of Ireland)
Born: BET 1228 / 1238, probably Wexford, Ireland
Died: ABT 1286, Ross, Ireland
Notes: Lord Justice of Ireland. The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (2º B. Offaly)
Mother: Julianne De COGAN
Married: Emmeline De LONGESPEE (b. ABT 1250 - d. ABT 1291) (dau. of Stephen Longespee and Emmeline De Ridelisford) ABT 1266
Children:
2. Amabel FITZMAURICE (b. ABT 1270)
Born: ABT 1266
Died: ABT 1300
Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.The Complete Peerage vol.V,p701 note h, says her husband heirs name was Thomas.Lord of Inchiquin and Yougal. also The Complete Peerage vol.VII,p.200.
Father: Maurice FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD (Lord Justice of Ireland)
Mother: Emmeline De LONGESPEE
Married: Thomas De CLARE (B. Inchiquin/B. Thomond) (d. 1287/88, Ireland) (son of Richard De Clare 2º E. Gloucester and Maud De Lacy) 1275
Children:
1. Gilbert De CLARE (B. Inchiquin/B. Thomond) (b. 1281)
2. Richard De CLARE (B. Inchiquin/B. Thomond) (b. AFT 1281)
3. Maud De CLARE
4. Margaret De CLARE
Born: ABT 1229
Died: 1271, Lough Mask Castle, Ballyloughmask, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Notes: One source says died 1260.
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (2º B. Offaly)
Mother: Julianne De COGAN
Married: Rohesia De St. MICHAEL
Children:
1. John FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (1° E. Kildare)
John FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (1° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 14 May 1316
Died: 12 Sep 1316, near Maynooth, Laraghbryan, Ireland
Buried: Church of Friars Minor, Kildare, Ireland
Notes: 5º B. Offaly . The Complete Peerage VII,p.218-221 & p.200.
Father: Thomas FITZMAURICE FITZGERALD
Mother: Rohesia De St. MICHAEL
Married: Blanche ROCHE (dau. of John Roche B. Fermoy)
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD (d. 1303)
2. Thomas FITZGERALD (2° E. Kildare)
Died: BEF 1320
Father: John FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (1° E. Kildare)
Mother: Blanche ROCHE
Married: Edmund BUTLER (Justiciar and Governor of Ireland) 1302
Children:
1. James BUTLER (1° E. Ormonde)
2. John BUTLER of Clonamelchon
Thomas FITZGERALD (2° E. Kildare)
Born: BEF 1300
Acceded: 1316
Died: 5/9 Apr 1328, Maynooth
Father: John FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (1° E. Kildare)
Mother: Blanche ROCHE
Married: Joan BURGH (C. Kildare) 16 Aug 1312
Children:
1. John FITZGERALD (d. 1323)
2. Richard FITZGERALD (3° E. Kildare)
3. Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
4. John FITZGERALD (d. ABT 1383)
Richard FITZGERALD (3° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1328
Died: 7 Jul 1331
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD (2° E. Kildare)
Mother: Joan BURGH (C. Kildare)
Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
Born: 1318
Acceded: 1331
Died: 25 Aug 1390
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD (2° E. Kildare)
Mother: Joan BURGH (C. Kildare)
Married: Elizabeth BURGHERSH (b. ABT 1320) (dau. of Sir Bartholomew De Burghersh, B. Burghersh and Elizabeth De Verdon) ABT 1346
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD (5° E. Kildare)
Died: ABT 1395
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth BURGHERSH
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD
Died: 1410
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth BURGHERSH
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. William FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (Sir)
William FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (Sir)
Died: 1443
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. John FITZWILLIAM FITZGERALD
Died: 1466
Father: William FITZTHOMAS FITZGERALD (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Gerrot FITZGERALD of Ballysonan (Sir)
Gerrot FITZGERALD of Ballysonan (Sir)
Died: 1534
Father: John FITZWILLIAM FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Father: Gerrot FITZGERALD of Ballysonan (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Died: 1593
Father: James FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
Died: 1637
Father: Piers FITZGERALD (Sir)
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Piers FITZGERALD MacTHOMAS
Gerald FITZGERALD (5° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1390
Died: ABT 1410 /m 13 Oct 1432
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth BURGHERSH
Married 1: Margaret ROCHEFORD
Married 2: Agnes DARCY (C. Kildare) BEF 1398
Children:
1. Elizabeth (Joan) FITZGERALD (C. Ormonde)
Elizabeth (Joan) FITZGERALD (C. Ormonde)
Born: BEF 1398
Died: 6 Aug 1452
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (5° E. Kildare)
Mother: Agnes DARCY (C. Kildare)
Married 1: John GREY (5° B. Grey of Codnor)
Married 2: James BUTLER (4º E. Ormonde) 1432
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (5° E. Kildare)
Mother: Agnes DARCY (C. Kildare)
Married: Joan CASTLEMARTIN
Children:
Father: Richard FITZGERALD
Mother: Joan CASTLEMARTIN
Married: Christopher PLUNKET (1º B. Dunsany)
Father: Maurice FITZGERALD (4° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth BURGHERSH
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. John FITZGERALD (6° E. Kildare)
John FITZGERALD (6° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1432
Died: 17 Oct 1427
Father: John FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Margaret De La HERPE
Children:
1. Thomas FITZGERALD (7° E. Kildare)
2. John FITZGERALD
Thomas FITZGERALD (7° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1456
Died: 27 Nov 1477 / 25 Mar 1478
Father: John FITZGERALD (6° E. Kildare)
Mother: Margaret De La HERPE
Married: Jane FITZGERALD (C. Kildare)
Children:
1. Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
3. James FITZGERALD
Died: 1487
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD (7° E. Kildare)
Mother: Jane FITZGERALD (C. Kildare)
Married: Anne PRESTON (d. 1503) (dau. of Robert Preston and Joan Molyneux) (m.2 Christopher Nugent)
Died: 1497
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD (7° E. Kildare)
Mother: Jane FITZGERALD (C. Kildare)
Married: Conn O'NÉILL
Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1478
Died: ABT 3 Sep 1513
Notes: See his Biography.
Father: Thomas FITZGERALD (7° E. Kildare)
Mother: Jane FITZGERALD (C. Kildare)
Married 1: Alison FITZEUSTACE
Children:
1. Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
2. Margaret FITZGERALD (C. Ormonde)
Married 2: Elizabeth St. JOHN (C. Kildare)
Children:
5. James FITZGERALD of Leixlip (Sir)
6. Oliver FITZGERALD (d. 3 Feb 1537)
7. Richard FITZGERALD of Fassaroe (d. 3 Feb 1537)
8. John FITZGERALD (Sir) (d. 3 Feb 1537)
9. Walter FITZGERALD
Born: ABT 1478, Kildare, Ireland
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Alison FITZEUSTACE
Married: Christopher FLEMING (8° B. Slane) (son of James Fleming, 7° B. Slane, and Elizabeth Welles) ABT 1504
Children:
1. Eleanor FLEMING
2. Catherine FLEMING (m. Christopher Barnewall)
3. James FLEMING ( 9° B. Slane) (b. 1507/8 - d. BEF 4, Nov 1573) (m.1 Alice Fitzgerald - m.2 Ellis Plunkett)
Born: ABT 1482
Died: AFT 1541
Notes: as a widow, Lady Eleanor MacCarthy, sheltered her nephew, Gerald Fitzgerald, future E. of Kildare, who had escaped from Kilbrittain Castle with the aid of a priest. Five of her brothers and another nephew were executed in England on 3 Feb 1537. In order to protect young Gerald, who was only twelve years old, Eleanor married Manus O’Donnell, around Jun 1538, making that protection an article of their marriage settlement. For a time, O’Donnell led the Geraldine league in defense of Fitzgerald rights in Ireland, but by 1540 he was in secret negotiations with England and Eleanor, fearing betrayal, spirited Gerald away to France. One of the livelier accounts has her telling O’Donnell she’d never have married him if not for her need to protect Gerald and calling him a “clownish curmudgeon”. Manus submitted to the English in 1541. Although another account has O’Donnell, while imprisoned in Lifford Castle from 1548-1554, writing love poetry to his estranged wife, it seems likely that Eleanor had died by then. According to the Oxford DNB, O’Donnell married four times and another of his wives, Margaret MacDonald, died in 1544. Since Manus married Eleanor before that date, it seems logical to assume that she died at some point between 1540 and 1544. However, other sources indicate an annulment by mutual consent, which would allow remarriage and leave Eleanor's date of death in doubt. O’Donnell had numerous children, but probably none by Eleanor.
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Alison FITZEUSTACE
Married 1: Donough McCARTHY REAGH of Carbery
Married 2: Manus O’DONNELL (b. 1500 - d. 9 Feb 1564) ABT Jun 1538
Margaret FITZGERALD (C. Ormonde)
Died: 9 Aug 1542
Buried: St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ireland
Notes: played an active role in legal matters concerning her family and the Ormond estate and was sole executor of the will of her husband, Piers Butler, 8th E. of Ormond and 1st E. of Ossory. In the seventeenth century, Margaret and her husband were credited with having brought civilization to Tipperary and Kilkenny. Margaret in particular was a patron of both schools and craftsmen.
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Alison FITZEUSTACE
Married: Piers BUTLER (8° E. Ormonde) ABT 1485
Children:
1. James BUTLER (9° E. Ormonde)
4. Richard BUTLER (1° V. Mountgarret)
5. Edmund BUTLER (Archbishop of Cashel)
6. Catherine BUTLER (C. Desmond)
7. Joan BUTLER
James FITZGERALD of Leixlip (Sir)
Died: 3 Feb 1537
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth St. JOHN (C. Kildare)
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Maurice FITZJAMES FITZGERALD (d. 1547)
2. Henry FITZJAMES FITZGERALD (d. 1547)
Died: 3 Feb 1537
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth St. JOHN (C. Kildare)
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Maurice FITZGERALD of Glassely
Maurice FITZGERALD of Glassely
Father: Walter FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. Walter Riabhach FITZGERALD (d. 1597)
Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Born: 1493
Acceded: 1513
Died: 2 Sep 1534
Notes: lord deputy of Ireland, dies in the Tower of London, after being imprisoned on corruption charges.
Father: Gerald Garret Mor FITZGERALD (8° E. Kildare)
Mother: Alison FITZEUSTACE
Married 1: Elizabeth ZOUCHE (C. Kildare)
Children:
1. Thomas 'Silken Thomas' FITZGERALD (10° E. Kildare)
Married 2: Elizabeth GREY (C. Kildare)
Children:
5. Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
7. Thomas FITZGERALD
8. Elizabeth FITZGERALD (C. Lincoln) ("Fair Geraldine")
Born: ABT 1508
Died: ABT May 1540
Notes: in Dec 1526, Alice accompanied her father to the English court and they later stayed at the Duke of Norfolk’s house at Newington. Inquires were being made into his conduct as lord deputy. While in England, Alice married her cousin, James Fleming, 9th Baron Slane. She returned to Ireland without her father in Aug 1528. Later charges of treason against the Earl indicated that on 8 Jul 1528, he sent her home with orders to stir up trouble for the new lord deputy. Apparently she did so, for she had to be pardoned for “treasons and conspiracies with Irish rebels” in Jun 1529. Her husband was known as “Black James” and was one of the heroes of the battle of Bellahoe (1539). Alice was not the Lady Slane still found in records for Jul 1561. That was probably Slane’s second wife, Ellis (or Elizabeth) Plunkett, married at some point after 1540 and still alive in 1580 when Queen Elizabeth imprisoned her in the Tower of London for “disobedience”.
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth ZOUCHE (C. Kildare)
Married: James FLEMING (9° B. Slane) (b. 1507/8 - d. BEF 4, Nov 1573) (son of Christopher Fleming, 8° B. Slane, and Elizabeth Fitzgerald) (m.2 Ellis Plunkett)
Died: ABT 1596
Notes: her husband was a rebel, espousing the Geraldine cause. Her father died a prisoner in England and her brother Thomas and five of her uncles were executed in England on 3 Feb 1537. In 1539, Mary gave shelter to her young half brother, Gerald, later E. of Kildare, before sending him to their aunt, Eleanor Fitzgerald, for safety. Mary's husband was imprisoned in the Marshalsea in London from 1548-1554. Their daughter Margaret went to England and helped negotiate his release. He returned to England, with Gerald Fitzgerald, and at that time he was restored as Earl of Kildare, called The Wizard Earl. Little is known of Mary’s widowhood, but in 1582 her son Cathal killed a man and was forced to flee Ireland. He went first to Scotland and then to Spain, where he took the name Don Carlos. At some point, Mary joined him there. In Nov 1596, Cathal attempted to return to Ireland with his mother, wife, and family. He drowned when shipwrecked en route. One presumes that the other members of his family also perished, although the records do not bother to say.
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth ZOUCHE (C. Kildare)
Married: Brian MacCathaoir O´CONNOR (King of Uí Failghe) (d. AFT 1559) BEF 1526
Children:
1. Conn MacBriain O´CONNOR
2. Ruaidhrí MacBriain O´CONNOR
3. Donnchadh MacBriain O´CONNOR (d. 1558)
4. Cormac MacBriain O´CONNOR (d. AFT 1573)
5. Cathaoir MacBriain O´CONNOR
6. An Calbhach MacBriain O´CONNOR
7. Art MacBriain O´CONNOR
8. Cathal MacBriain O´CONNOR (b. 1540- d. 1596)
9. Margaret MacBriain O´CONNOR
10. Son MacBriain O´CONNOR
11. Dau. MacBriain O´CONNOR
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth ZOUCHE (C. Kildare)
Married: Jenico PRESTON (3º V. Gormanston)
Children:
1. Elizabeth PRESTON
2. Christopher PRESTON (4° V. Gormanston) (m. Catherine Fitzwilliam)
3. Mary PRESTON (m. Michael Fitzwilliam)
4. Martin PRESTON (m. Alison Herbert)
5. Nicholas PRESTON
6. Ellen PRESTON
7. Jenet PRESTON
8. Catherine PRESTON
Thomas 'Silken Thomas' FITZGERALD (10° E. Kildare)
Born: ABT 1513
Acceded: 1534
Died: 3 Feb 1537
Notes: known as "Silken Thomas" because of the silk fringes on the helmets of his horsemen. Attainted 1536. Rebels against England as a protest against Henry VIII's treatment of his father. Was declared a "rebel" after receiving a report that his father, who had been summoned to England, had been executed and plans had been made to assassinate himself and his uncles. His father Gerald (or Garett) Mor, 9th Earl of Kildare, was, in fact, stlill alive but died of grief when told that Thomas had been excommunicated for ordering the execution of Archbishop Allen. During his revolt, Dublin Castle is besieged and Fitzgerald (now 10th earl of Kildare) offers his allegiance to the Pope instead of to the 'schismatic' Henry. Despite Thomas Cromwell's attempts to undermine his influence, it takes about a year to control the revolt. On 23 Mar 1535, Kildare's army is crushed at Maynooth Castle, County Kildare. In Aug, he surrenders and is executed for treason on 3 Feb 1537 along with five of his uncles.
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth ZOUCHE (C. Kildare)
Married: Frances FORTESCUE
Elizabeth FITZGERALD (C. Lincoln) ("Fair Geraldine")
Born: 1528, Maynooth, Kildare, Leinster, Ireland
Died: Mar 1589, Lincoln Chapel
Buried: St. George'S Chapel, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Notes: See her Biography.
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth GREY (C. Kildare)
Married 1: Anthony BROWNE (Sir Knight) AFT 1540
Married 2: Edward CLINTON FIENNES (1° E. Lincoln) 1 Oct 1552, Sempringham, Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England
Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Born: 25 Feb 1525
Acceded: 1554
Died: 16 Nov 1585
Buried: Kildare, Co Kildare, Ireland
Notes: The Wizard Earl. Was only ten years old when his brother Thomas was arrested and because his uncles had all been executed by the English government, he was the only survivng heir to the Earldom of Kildare. Fearing for his life, Thomas Leverous, a priest, and Gerald's relatives James Delahide and Lady Mary O'Conor kept him concealed. With the assistance of Shane O'Neil, Earl of Tyrone and James Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, he was eventually sent to France until such time as he could return. Those who assisted became known as the "Geraldine League". One of the reasons for the King's intense jealousy and anxiety regarding the Geraldines, both the Kildares and Desmonds, becomes apparent in a letter written to Cromwell in 1538: "I ensure your Lordship that his English Pale, except the towens, and a very few of the possessioners, bee too affectionat to the Geraldynes, that for kynrede, maryage, fostering, and adhering as followers, they coveite moore to see a Geraldyn to reigne and triumphe, than to see God come emonges theym..."
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth GREY (C. Kildare)
Married: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare) 28 May 1554
Children:
1. Elizabeth (Eveleen) FITZGERALD
2. Gerald FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
3. Henry "Na Tuagh" FITZGERALD (12° E. Kildare)
4. William FITZGERALD (13° E. Kildare)
5. Mary FITZGERALD (B. Delvin)
Elizabeth (Eveleen) FITZGERALD
Died: 12 Jan 1617
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Mother: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare)
Married: Donnchadh macConchobhair O'BRIEN (4° E. Thomond) AFT 6 Nov 1585
Children:
1. Henry macDonnchadha O'BRIEN (5° E. Thomond) (b. ABT 1588) (m. Mary Brereton)
2. Barnabas macDonnchadha O'BRIEN (6° E. Thomond) (b. ABT 1590)
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Mother: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare)
Married: Christopher NUGENT (3º B. Delvin)
Children:
1. Mabel NUGENT
Gerald FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
Born: 28 Dec 1559, Maynooth
Died: Jun 1580 / 16 Nov 1585
Buried: St.Alban's Abbey, Herts.
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Mother: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare)
Married: Catherine KNOLLYS (B. Offaley) Oct 1578
Children:
1. Lettice FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
Lettice FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
Died: 1 Dec 1658
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (B. Offaley)
Mother: Catherine KNOLLYS (B. Offaley)
Married: Robert DIGBY of Coleshill (Sir) (d. 24 May 1614) (son of Sir George Digby of Coleshill and Abigail Heveningham) 1600
Henry "Na Tuagh" FITZGERALD (12° E. Kildare)
Born: 1562
Acceded: 1585
Died: 1 Aug/30 Sep 1597, Drogheda
Buried: Kildare Cathedral
Notes: in 1582 Gerald's estates were placed under sequestration and father and son were imprisoned in the tower of London and released in Jun 1583. Henry succeeded his father to the title and became 12th Earl of Kildare. He was probably related to the well known Fitzgerald family, the knights of Glin. Queen Elizabeth desired the lord deputy to exchange some of the crown lands with Henry, Earl of Kildare, for the castle and lands of Carlow in 1589.Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Mother: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare)
Married: Frances HOWARD (C. Kildare/B. Cobham) BEF 22 Feb 1590
Children:
2. Elizabeth FITZGERALD
Born: BEF 1597
Father: Henry "Na Tuagh" FITZGERALD (12° E. Kildare)
Mother: Frances HOWARD (C. Kildare/B. Cobham)
Married 1: ¿? (1° E. Tyrconnell) (d. BEF 1646) 1605
Married 2: Nicholas BARNEWALL (1° V. Kingslan) (b. 1592-d. 20 Aug 1663) (son of Sir Patrick Barnewall and Mary Bagenal)
William FITZGERALD (13° E. Kildare)
Died: ABT Apr 1599
Father: Gerald FITZGERALD (11° E. Kildare)
Mother: Mabel BROWNE (C. Kildare)
Born: ABT 1528
Died: 1597
Father: Gerald 'Gearóig óg' FITZGERALD (9° E. Kildare)
Mother: Elizabeth GREY (C. Kildare)
Married: Agnes LEIGH (dau. of Sir John Leigh and Elizabeth Darcy)
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD (14° E. Kildare)
Gerald FITZGERALD (14° E. Kildare)
Acceded: 1599
Died: 11 Feb 1612
Father: Edward FITZGERALD
Mother: Agnes LEIGH
Married: Elizabeth NUGENT
Children:
1. Gerald FITZGERALD (15° E. Kildare)
Father: Edward FITZGERALD
Mother: Agnes LEIGH
Married: ¿?
Children:
1. George FITZGERALD (16° E. Kildare)
Died: 1178
Father: Robert FITZGERALD
Mother: ¿?
Married: Alice De MESCHINES (dau. of Robert De Meschines, Lord of Romeli) (w. of William Fitzduncan, E. Moray)
Children:
2.
Warine FITZGERALD
Died: ABT 1175
Notes: Chamberlain to King Henry II of England.
Father: Alexander FITZGERALDMother: Alice De MESCHINES
Married: Matilda De CHENEY
Children:
1. Henry FITZGERALD of Dudington
Died: 1216, DSP
Father: Henry FITZGERALD
Mother: Matilda De CHENEY
Married: Alice De COURCY
Died: AFT 1217
Notes: Chamberlain to King Henry II of England.
Father: Henry FITZGERALD
Mother: Matilda De CHENEY
Married 1: Ermentrude De FERRERS
Married 2: Ermentruda TALBOT
Children:
Died: AFT 1270, probably Kingston Lisle, Sparholt, Berkshire, England
Father: Henry FITZGERALD of Dudington
Mother: Ermentrude De FERRERS / Ermentruda TALBOT
Married: Robert De LISLE (d. AFT 1259) BEF 1240
Children:
1. Gerard De LISLE (Sir) (d. BET 1287 / 1288)
Born: ABT 1330
Father: Robert FITZGERALDMother: ¿?
Married: William DARCY (Sir Knight) ABT 1350, Allen, Kildare, IrelandChildren:
1. John DARCY
Catherine FITZGERALD
Married 1: Edward VILLIERS
Children:
1. Harriet VILLIERS (Lady Grandison)
Married 2: William STEWART (Gen.)