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Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (born c. 1456 – c. 3 September 1513), known variously as "Garret the Great" (Gearóid Mór) or "The Great Earl" (An tIarla Mór), was Ireland's premier peer. He served as Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1477 to 1494, and from 1496 onward. His power was so great that he was called "the uncrowned King of Ireland".
Flattisbury appears to have been a retainer of Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, deputy-governor of Ireland under Henry VII and Henry VIII. In 1503 Flattisbury made for FitzGerald a compilation styled the Red Book of the Earls of Kildare. This volume consists mainly of documents connected with or bearing upon the lands and ...
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (died 1537), known as "Silken Thomas," also led an unsuccessful insurrection in Ireland, while Lord Edward FitzGerald (1763–1798), the fifth son of the first duke of Leinster, was a leading figure in the 1798 Irish Rebellion against King George III of the House of Hanover.
He was the son of The 8th Earl of Kildare and his first wife, Alison FitzEustace, daughter of The 1st Baron Portlester.In 1503, at Collyweston, [1] he married Elizabeth Zouche, daughter of Sir John Zouche of Codnor and Elizabeth St John, [2] a first cousin of King Henry VII, [3] (her father, John St John, was the maternal half-brother of Henry's mother, Margaret Beaufort) with whom he had:
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Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (c. 1421 –1477) Anglo-Irish 1468 1475 Henry VI: Edward IV: William Sherwood (died 1482) English 1475 1477 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (c. 1456 –1513) Anglo-Irish 1477 1477 Henry Grey, 4th Baron Grey of Codnor (c. 1435 –1496) English 1478 1479 Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (c. 1456 ...
8th Earl of Kildare: Gerald FitzGerald (1487–1534) 9th Earl of Kildare: Earl of Kildare (2nd creation), 1554 Ancient earldom restored, 1569: Thomas FitzGerald (1513 ...
Brian O'Connor Faly (Irish: Brian Ó Conchobhair Failghe; c. 1490 – 1560), also called Bernard, [1] was an Irish noble and Lord of Offaly.. O'Connor Faly raided the Pale many times from the early 1520s to the mid-1540s, assuring his political position via alliances with the Earl of Kildare and Lord Deputy of Ireland.