Ancestral Trails 2016 » Henry FITZGERALD (1562-1597)

Personal data Henry FITZGERALD 


Household of Henry FITZGERALD

He is married to Frances HOWARD.

They got married in the year 1581 at Westminster, Middlesex, he was 19 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Elizabeth FITZGERALD  ± 1591-????
  2. Bridget FITZGERALD  1589-1682 


Notes about Henry FITZGERALD

Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare (1562 - 1 August 1597) was an Irish peer and soldier.

Kildare was the second son of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare and Mabel Browne. His eldest brother died in 1580, and Henry inherited the earldom in 1585.

Military career
Nicknamed Henry "na Tuagh", or Henry "of the Battleaxes", he fought against the Spanish invaders in Ireland in 1588. In 1597 he helped quell the Earl of Tyrone's uprising in Ulster, where he was mortally wounded. Wounded in a skirmish on the Blackwater in July 1597, he was brought to Drogheda where he died of his wounds 30 September 1597.

Family
Kildare married Frances, daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Katherine Carey, in 1589. They had no sons and Kildare was succeeded by his brother William FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Kildare. He had at least two surviving daughters:

Bridget, (c. 1590 - died between 1661 and 1683), married firstly Rory O'Donnell, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, and secondly Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall and had children in both marriages.
Elizabeth. who married Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall, when he was Baron Killeen. She died in London in 1611, whereas her widowed husband married three more times and became Earl of Fingall in 1628.

Notes
Lundy 2015, p. 1265 § 12649 cites Mosley 2003, p. 2299
Webb, Alfred. A Compendium of Irish Biography, Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, 1878
Lundy 2015, p. 1265 § 12649 cites Cokayne 2000, p. 428

References
Lundy, Darryl (29 June 2015), Henry FitzGerald, 2nd/12th Earl of Kildare, thepeerage.com, p. 1265 § 12649 cites:
Cokayne, G.E; et al., eds. (2000), The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, I (Reprint in 6 volumes ed.), Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, p. 428
Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003), Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 2 (107th in 3 volumes ed.), Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage, p. 2299
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_FitzGerald,_12th_Earl_of_Kildare

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Henry FITZGERALD

Gerald FITZGERALD
1487-1534
Elizabeth GREY
1497-> 1548

Henry FITZGERALD
1562-1597

1581

Frances HOWARD
1566-1628

Elizabeth FITZGERALD
± 1591-????
Bridget FITZGERALD
1589-1682

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Day of death August 1, 1597

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