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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".
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)
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 ...
Other titles: Marquesse of Kildare (1761), Earl of Kildare (1316), Earl of Offaly (1761), Viscount Leinster, of Taplow in the County of Buckingham (GB 1747) and Lord of Offaly (c. 1193–?) James FitzGerald, 1st Duke of Leinster (1722–1773), elder son of the 19th earl, his wife, Lady Emily Lennox , was a cousin of King George III , and a ...
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 ...
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:
Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare; Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare; Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Kildare; Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare; John FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare; John FitzGerald, 18th Earl of Kildare; Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare; Robert FitzGerald, 19th Earl of Kildare; Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd ...
After the 8th Earl died in 1513, relations between Darcy and the Kildare family deteriorated. The 8th Earl's son and heir Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare has been praised as a man of intelligence, charm and diplomatic skill, but there seems to have been ill-feeling between himself and Darcy, who lost both the office of Vice-Treasurer and ...