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Personal data Joan "Cam" Fitzgerald (FitzGerald) Countess of Kildare 

• She was born about 1410 in Laecagh, County Kildare, Leinster, Ireland.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1435 in Desmond Castle, Desmond, Leinster, Kerry, Ireland.
• Alternative: She was born in the year 1410 in Laecagh, County Kildare, Leinster, Ireland.Source 5
• Resident: Baile na n√Åth.Source 10
• She died on June 13, 1486 in Adare Friary, Adare, County Limerick, Leinster, Ireland.

  Attention: Deceased (June 13, 1486) prior to birth (??-??-1490) of child (Ellen Roche-Fermoy).

• Alternative: She died on June 13, 1486 in Monastery Adare, Adare, Limerick, Ireland.
• She is buried in Adare Friary, Adare, County Limerick, Leinster, Ireland.Source 10
• A child of James ·ÄúThe Usurper·Äù Fitzmaurice FitzGerald and Mary de Burgh (Burke)
• This information was last updated on February 11, 2019.

Household of Joan "Cam" Fitzgerald (FitzGerald) Countess of Kildare

(1) She is married to David van la Roche Viscount Fermoy.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Thomas Roche-Fermoy  1431-1490
2. Ellena Roche-Fermoy  

(2) She is married to Maurice "the 2nd Lord" Roche-Fermoy.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. David "the 3rd Viscount" Roche-Fermoy  1480-1539
2. Ellen Roche-Fermoy  1490-1535

(3) She is married to Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Anne Fitzgerald-Kildare  1453-????
2. Gear√≥id M√≥r "the 8th Earl" FitzGerald-Kildare  1456-1513
3. Gerald Gearoid M√≥r Fitzgerald  ± 1456-1513 
4. Thomas Fitzgerald-Laccagh  1458-????
5. Eilionoir Fitzgerald-Kildare  1460-1497
6. Margaret Fitzgerald  ± 1470-????

(4) She is married to Thomas Andrews.

Marriage
Date: abt 1440
Place: County Kildare, Ireland
Marriage
Date: 24 Jan 1446
Place: Ireland, Kildare, Ireland
Marriage
Date: ABT 1451
Place: Askeaton Castle, Limerick, Munster, Ireland
Marriage
Date: 24 Jan 1456
Place: Ireland, Kildare, Ireland

They got married at ...Ireland.

Child(ren):

1. Gerald "Gerald The Great" Fitzgerald  1438-1513
2. James FitzThomas FITZ GERALD  1441-1536
3. Maurice Bacach FITZGERALD  1445-1520 
4. Eleanor FITZ GERALD  1448-1549
5. Gerald 8 Earl of Kildare  1449-1513
6. Thomas Fitzgerald  1454-1487
7. Garret Fitzgerald  1456-1513
8. Eleanor FitzGerald  1460-1497 
9. Lady Anne Eustace Fitzgerald  1460-1497
10. Sir James Fitzgerald  1462-1536
11. Anne Eustace  1464-????
12. Lady Margaret (Countess of Castletown Ireland Windsor Ormonde) Fitzgerald  1464-1542
13. Margarita Goldring Fitzgerald  ± 1470-????

Notes about Joan "Cam" Fitzgerald (FitzGerald) Countess of Kildare

Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Kildare is your 19th great grandmother.
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your father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Henry Marvin Welborn, Sr.¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Calhoun H. Welborn¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Younger Welborn¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·ÜíWilliam "Billy" Welborn¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Elizabeth Wellborne¬â€ 
his mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Anna Younger (Nash)¬â€ 
her mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ John Nash¬â€ 
her father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Mary Nash¬â€ 
his mother¬â€ ·ÜíDorothy Jenkinson¬â€ 
her mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Edward Bullock Jr.¬â€ 
her father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Richard I Bullock¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Martha Bullock¬â€ 
his mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ James Butler¬â€ 
her father¬â€ ·ÜíHon. Pierce Butler, of Ballydroghid¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ 2nd/12th Baron Dunboyne James Butler¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne Edmond Butler¬â€ 
his father¬â€ ·ÜíLady Joan Butler (Butler)¬â€ 
his mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Lady Margaret FitzGerald, Countess Ormonde¬â€ 
her mother¬â€ ·Üí¬â€ Geroid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare¬â€ 
her father¬â€ ·ÜíJoan FitzGerald, Countess of Kildare¬â€ 
his mother

https://www.geni.com/people/Joan-FitzGerald-Countess-of-Kildare/6000000008628819934

Joan FitzGerald
Gender:
Female
Birth:
circa 1410¬â€ 
Laecagh, County Kildare, Leinster, Ireland
Death:
June 13, 1486¬â€ (72-80)¬â€ 
Adare Friary, Adare, County Limerick, Leinster, Ireland
Place of Burial:
Adare Friary, Adare, County Limerick, Leinster, Ireland
Immediate Family:
Daughter of¬â€ James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond¬â€ and¬â€ Mary Burke of Clanricarde¬â€ 
Wife of¬â€ Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare¬â€ 
Mother of¬â€ Geroid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare;¬â€ Sir James FitzGerald;¬â€ Sir Thomas FitzGerald of Laccagh;¬â€ Maurice FitzGerald;¬â€ Lady Eleanor FitzGerald;¬â€ Lady Alice Fitzgeraldand¬â€ Anne Fitzgerald¬â€ ¬´ less¬â€ 
Sister of¬â€ Thomas FitzJames FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond;¬â€ Honoria FitzMaurice¬â€ and¬â€ Gerald FitzJames FitzGerald of Dromnana¬â€ 

From Darryl Lundy's Peerage page on Joan Fitzgerald:
http://www.thepeerage.com/p15142.htm#i151420
Lady Joan FitzGerald [1]
F, #151420,
d. 13 June 1486
Last Edited=1 May 2009
Lady Joan FitzGerald was the daughter of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond and Mary de Burgh.[1],[2]
She married Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare, son of John fitz Maurice FitzGerald and Rose Basset.[3]
She died on 13 June 1486.[1],[3]
As a result of her marriage, Lady Joan FitzGerald was styled as Countess of Kildare.
Children of Lady Joan FitzGerald and Thomas FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Kildare
1. Sir Thomas FitzGerald+3 d. 1487
2. Sir James FitzGerald+3 d. 1513
3. Lady Eleanor FitzGerald+3 d. 14 Nov 1497
4. Lady Anne FitzGerald3
5. Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare+1 b. a Jan 1455/56, d. 3 Sep 1513
Citations
1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 229. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume IV, page 247.
3. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2298. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Countess of Desmond (ca. 1509 or ca. 1514 ·Äì 2 January 1565) was a Norman-Irish noblewoman and heiress, a member of the Fitzgerald family, who were also known as the "Geraldines". She married three times. Her first husband was James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, who had been proposed as a bridegroom for Anne Boleyn in 1522 to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond. Her second husband was courtier Sir Francis Bryan. Her third marriage to Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond brought peace to Ireland for a few years until he broke his truce with her eldest son Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and warfare broke out between the rival Butler and Fitzgerald clans, who had been hereditary enemies for many generations.

Joan carried on an amicable correspondence with Queen Elizabeth I of England who recognized Joan's skill in diplomacy, and relied upon her to restore and keep the precarious peace in Munster.

Contents
1 Family 2 Marriages and issue 3 Faction fighting between the Butlers and Fitzgeralds
Family

Lady Joan was born in Desmond Castle, Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland in about 1509 or 1514, the daughter and heiress-general of James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond and Amy O'Brien. She had a younger sister, Lady Honora Fitzgerald (died 1577), who later married Pierce Butler.

Marriages and issue

Sometime before 21 December 1532, she married her first husband James Butler, who succeeded as 9th Earl of Ormond on 26 August 1539. James had been proposed as a bridegroom to his cousin Anne Boleyn in 1522 in an attempt to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the earldom of Ormond to which Anne's father, Sir Thomas Boleyn had a claim as his mother had been Lady Margaret Butler, eldest daughter of the 7th earl of Ormond. For reasons unknown, the marriage negotiations came to a halt and Anne later became the second wife of King Henry VIII of England.

Together James and Joan had seven sons:
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond (c.1532- 22 November 1614), married firstly Elizabeth Berkeley; secondly, Elizabeth Sheffield, by whom he had issue; thirdly, Helen Barry John Butler of Kilcash (died 10 May 1570), married Katherine MacCartie, by whom he had a son, Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond. Edward Butler, married Mary Bourke, by whom he had issue. Walter Butler, married and had one daughter. Sir Edmund Butler (1534·Äì1602), married Eleanor Eustace, by whom he had issue. James Butler of Duiske Piers Butler
On 17 October 1546, James went to dine at Ely House in Holborn, London. He fell victim of a mass poisoning along with his steward and 16 of his servants.[6] He eventually died on 28 October, leaving Joan a widow in her thirties. As a widow, she could legally act independently and she regained control of her dowry. She also sought the help of influential people at Court to protect her children's inheritance.

She had desired to marry as her second husband, her cousin, Gerald FitzGerald, heir to the earldom of Desmond and many years her junior; however, she was persuaded to marry the English courtier and diplomat Sir Francis Bryan in August 1548. He was appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and the couple returned to Ireland in November 1548. Due to his reputation of being a rake and libertine at the English court, Sir Francis Bryan earned the nickname "Vicar of Hell". While he lay dying at Clonmel, Joan was allegedly out on a hunting expedition with her cousin, Gerald.[8] He died on 2 February 1550, and she married Gerald in 1551. Their marriage brought about a temporary peace in Ireland between the rival families of Butler and FitzGerald. Gerald succeeded to the earldom in 1558, making Joan the Countess of Desmond. She used her considerable talent for diplomacy to act as a "peacemaker" between her eldest son and third husband.

Faction fighting between the Butlers and Fitzgeralds

Joan maintained a friendly correspondence with Queen Elizabeth I, who recognised her ability, and relied on her to restore and keep the precarious peace in Munster after her husband, allegedly tired of Joan's domination over him, broke the truce with her eldest son, Thomas, who had succeeded his father as Earl of Ormond. After the two factions began making raids against one another, Joan spent nearly two weeks journeying back and forth on horseback to arbitrate between the two enemy camps, before a tenuous peace was finally re-established. In 1562, her husband was sent to the Tower of London for his insolent behaviour before the Privy Council. Joan worked hard attempting to persuade Queen Elizabeth to release him. She was eventually successful in 1564; however, she herself died shortly afterward on 2 January 1565. She was buried at the Friary of Askeaton in Limerick.

Following her death, open warfare broke out between the Butlers and Fitzgeralds, with her son emerging the victor after the Battle of Affane in 1565.

Joan, in her various roles as landowner, household manager, and parent, wielded a powerful influence upon the lives of her tenants, retainers, and children. As a countess-albeit by marriage, she participated significantly in the world of Irish politics and the royal Tudor court.

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