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- The failure of the uprising ended the Fitzgerald family’s hereditary viceroyalty of Ireland and led to the tightening of English control over the country. When his father, the Irish lord deputy Gerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, was called to London in February 1534 to answer charges of disloyalty, Thomas Fitzgerald was left in charge of Ireland.
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Mar 19, 2024 · When his father, the Irish lord deputy Gerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, was called to London in February 1534 to answer charges of disloyalty, Thomas Fitzgerald was left in charge of Ireland. Rumour that his father had been executed caused Fitzgerald to renounce allegiance to Henry VIII and assert allegiance to papal authority in June 1534.
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It's unclear whether this marriage took place before or after his father's return to Ireland in August 1530. [2] In February 1534, his father was summoned to London and appointed the 21-year-old Thomas (by then Lord Offaly) deputy governor of Ireland in his absence.
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Nov 29, 2014 · In 1261 John Fitzthomas Fitzgerald and his son, Maurice Fitzgerald were both killed at the battle of Callann near Kenmare in South Kerry. The Fitzgerald family on Munster was virtually wiped out except for a one year old baby. In the panic at Tralee Castle after the battle the baby was left alone.
He denounced Henry VIII as a heretic, ordered all those born in England to leave Ireland immediately, made contact with English and Welsh catholics and demanded an oath of allegiance to himself, the pope, and the Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, who he hoped would send Spanish troops to support him.
In February 1534, before his father, Lord Deputy Gerald Fitzgerald (ninth earl of Kildare), answered a summons to the Henrician court, he appointed Thomas as vice-deputy during his absence. By May the futility of Gerald's negotiations to preserve the Kildare dynasty's control over Ireland within the newly reformed Tudor polity was manifest.
May 23, 2018 · He began with a show of defiance to Henry VIII which developed into open revolt, declaring that the king was a heretic and that all Englishmen were to leave Ireland at once. In the course of the rising the archbishop of Dublin was murdered, probably with Fitzgerald's participation.
May 9, 2014 · The earldom was created on 14 May 1316 for Thomas fitz John. John FitzGerald became the first Earl of Kildare. Two senior FitzGeralds, Garret Mór FitzGerald and his son, Garret Óg FitzGerald, served as Lords Deputy of Ireland (the King’s representative in Ireland). The tenth Earl, Thomas FitzGerald, known as Silken Thomas, was attained and ...
