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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".
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Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond (c. 1533–1583), leader of the Irish rebellion of 1579; Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare (died 1432), Irish peer; Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare (c. 1456–1513) Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487–1534) Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525–1585)
Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (1318–1390), third and youngest son of the 2nd Earl, leader of the army, serving King Edward of Windsor at the siege of Calais; Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare (died 1410), a son of the 4th Earl, leading opponent of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury
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:
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 ...
In 1478, when his son-in-law, Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, was replaced as Lord Deputy of Ireland by Lord Grey, Portlester organised a campaign of non-co-operation with the new Deputy. Grey ordered him to hand over the Great Seal of Ireland , but Portlester refused point-blank, thus making the conduct of official business impossible ...
Owen was the fourth son of Donal MacCarthy Reagh, 12th Prince of Carbery (r. 1505–1531) by his wife Lady Eleanor, daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, Owen became tánaiste in 1567, when his next elder brother Donogh MacCarthy Reagh, 15th Prince of Carbery (r. 1567–1576), father of Florence MacCarthy, succeeded their elder ...