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Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525 – 16 November 1585), also known as the "Wizard Earl " (a sobriquet also given to Henry Percy ), was an Irish peer. He was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his second wife Elizabeth Grey of the Royal House of Grey .
Fitzgerald, Gerald. Fitzgerald, Gerald (1525–85), 11th earl of Kildare , was the son of Gerald FitzGerald (qv), 9th earl of Kildare, and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grey, marquis of Dorset. He was born on February 28, probably at his father's residence, Maynooth castle. In 1534 his half-brother Lord Offaly, Thomas ...
A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. FitzGerald, Gerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, brother of the preceding, was born 25th February 1525, and was consequently but ten years old at the time of Lord Thomas's arrest. He was then lying ill of the small-pox at Donore, in Kildare, and being the only hope of the family, he was carefully conveyed in a ...
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The tenth Earl, Thomas FitzGerald, known as Silken Thomas, was attained and his honours were forfeit in February 1537, when Silken Thomas and his five uncles were executed at Tyburn. The earldom was under attainder since May 1536; Thomas’s half-brother and only male heir, Gerald FitzGerald, was created Earl of Kildare in the Peerage of ...
May 16, 2024 · ' Gerald FitzGerald, 1st/11th Earl of Kildare was born on 25 February 1525.1 He was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and Lady Elizabeth Grey.1 He married Mabel Browne, daughter of Sir Anthony Browne and Alice Gage, on 28 May 1554.1 He died on 16 November 1585 at age 60 at London, England.1
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Lyons, Mary Ann. FitzGerald, Gerald (Gearóid Mór) (1456/7–1513), 8th earl of Kildare , magnate and lord deputy, was the eldest of four sons and two daughters, and thus heir, of Thomas fitz Maurice FitzGerald (qv) (d. 1478), 7th earl of Kildare, sometime deputy lieutenant, and his wife, Joan, who was the daughter of James (qv) (d. 1462), 7th ...
Oct 19, 2018 · The Wizard Earl of Kilkea Castle Gerald Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare was born in 1525. A time of great upheaval and volatility for an Anglo-Irish Aristocrat and especially, for a Roman Catholic.
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