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Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513 – 3 February 1537), also known as Silken Thomas (Irish: Tomás an tSíoda), was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish history. Life [ edit ] Thomas Fitzgerald was born in London in 1513, the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his first wife Elizabeth Zouche, who was a distant ...
- Elizabeth Zouche
- Title forfeited
- 1534–1537
- Gerald FitzGerald
Mar 19, 2024 · Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare (born 1513, London, Eng.—died Feb. 3, 1537, London) was the leader of a major Irish rebellion against King Henry VIII of England. 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.
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FitzGerald, Thomas (‘Silken Thomas’) (1513–37), 10th earl of Kildare , magnate and rebel, was the only son of Gerald FitzGerald (qv) (1487–1534), 9th earl of Kildare, lord deputy of Ireland, and his first wife, Elizabeth (d. 1517), daughter of Sir John Zouche of Codnor, Derbyshire, and his wife, Elizabeth St John of Beltso.
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May 23, 2018 · views 3,664,773 updated May 23 2018. Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare [I] (1513–37). In 1534 Fitzgerald's father, the 9th earl, was recalled as lord deputy to England and imprisoned in the Tower in disgrace. Fitzgerald, then Lord Offaly, had been appointed deputy by his father.
May 9, 2014 · 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 ...
A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. FitzGerald, Thomas, 10th Earl of Kildare, son of the 9th Earl, commonly known as "Silken Thomas," was born in England in 1513. In 1534, then bearing the title of Lord Offaly, he was appointed Vice-Deputy by his father. He was brave, open, and generous, but wanting in discretion.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Lord Offaly, tenth earl of Kildare (1513–1537), leader of the Kildare rebellion (1534–1535), was born in London and spent much of his youth in England. 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 ...
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