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Gerard FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare (1487 – 12 December 1534; Irish: Gearóid Óg Mac Gearailt, meaning "Young Gerald FitzGerald"), was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish History. In 1513 he inherited the title of Earl of Kildare and position of Lord Deputy of Ireland from his father.
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 cousin of Henry VII. [1] After the death of his mother, he was raised by the wife of his father's steward, Janet Eustace. Little else is known of his early years.
Gerald FitzGerald was the son of The 7th Earl of Kildare and Jane FitzGerald, the daughter of "the Usurper", The 6th Earl of Desmond.The Gaelicized Cambro-Norman FitzGerald dynasty had risen to become the premier Irish Gall or Old English peers in Ireland.
George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American actor and singer who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966). He subsequently appeared in several miniseries, such as ShÅgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983) and was the first to play Jason Bourne in the 1988 television film The Bourne Identity.
In 2021 a search was conducted in a woodland in the Usk Little townland of County Kildare in relation to the disappearances of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob. Unusual activity in the area on the night of Deirdre Jacob's disappearance led to the search with the Gardaí also noting that Jo Jo Dullard was last sighted a 10-minute drive away from ...
Dar Lugdach (also Darlugdach died c. 525/527) was the immediate successor of Brigid of Kildare as abbess of Kildare, and is recognised as a saint. She is recorded as having died one year to the day after Brigid, and shares the same feast day as the more famous abbess. Little is known of her family history. [1]
Leinster was High Sheriff of Kildare for 1843 and Member of Parliament for Kildare from 1847 to 1852. [1] In 1870 he was granted a seat in the House of Lords as Baron Kildare in the peerage of the United Kingdom; he succeeded his father as Duke in 1874. When he inherited the titles, he also inherited 73,000 acres in Counties Kildare and Meath. [2]
Kildare and Mabel Browne married during the reign of Mary I on 28 May 1554, in the Chapel Royal. Amongst a certain branch of the FitzGerald's, there was a belief/legend that the 11th Earl of Kildare had been married to an Ellinor O'Kelly by Thomas Leverous (later Bishop of Kildare) in 1545. This resulted in the birth of the progenitor of this ...