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Lord Kildare was the son of Edward FitzGerald, younger son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his second wife Elizabeth Grey, a cousin of Henry VIII.Edward married Agnes Leigh, daughter of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell, Surrey, [1] who was a half-brother of Queen Catherine Howard, the fifth queen of Henry VIII, both of them being children of Joyce Culpepper.
John Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath Ireland Anthony Brabazon, Lord Ardee: 87 The Earl of Cavan: 1647 Roger Lambart, 13th Earl of Cavan Ireland Cavan Lambart (cousin) 88 The Earl of Drogheda: 1661 Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda: Ireland Benjamin Moore, Viscount Moore: 89 The Earl of Granard: 1684 Peter Forbes, 10th Earl of Granard Ireland
Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond (c. 1533 – 1583), also counted as 15th or 16th, [a] owned large part of the Irish province of Munster. In 1565 he fought the private Battle of Affane against his neighbours, the Butlers.
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
William FitzGerald, 2nd Duke of Leinster. A modest number of titles in the peerage of Ireland date from the Middle Ages.Before 1801, Irish peers had the right to sit in the Irish House of Lords, on the abolition of which by the Union effective in 1801 by an Act of 1800 they elected a small proportion – twenty-eight Irish representative peers – of their number (and elected replacements as ...
Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare (died 1478), son of the 6th Earl, was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland by Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York; Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (c. 1456–1513), "The Great Earl", eldest son of the 7th earl, was "the uncrowned King of Ireland", he married a cousin of the Tudor King Henry VII
Ulick, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde (by the third and final creation). Ulick was also the 14th Earl of Clanricarde. Earl of Clanricarde (English: / k l æ n ˈ r ɪ k ɑːr d / klan-RIK-ard; Irish: Iarla na Clanricard) is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of Ireland, first in 1543 and again in 1800.
James fitz Thomas FitzGerald, called the Súgán Earl (died 1608), was a pretender to the Earldom of Desmond who made his claim and led a rebellion after the last earl, Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond had been killed in 1583. The pretended earl derived his claim from being the eldest grandson of James FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Desmond.