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Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525 – 16 November 1585), also known as the "Wizard Earl" (a sobriquet also given to Henry Percy), was an Irish peer. He was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his second wife Elizabeth Grey of the Royal House of Grey .
Fitzgerald, Gerald (1525–85), 11th earl of Kildare , was the son of Gerald FitzGerald (qv), 9th earl of Kildare, and his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Grey, marquis of Dorset. He was born on February 28, probably at his father's residence, Maynooth castle.
9 de mai. de 2014 · The earldom was under attainder since May 1536; Thomas’s half-brother and only male heir, Gerald FitzGerald, was created Earl of Kildare in the Peerage of Ireland on 13 May 1553. He was subsequently restored to the original Patent in 1569, as eleventh Earl.
FitzGerald, Gerald, 11th Earl of Kildare, brother of the preceding, was born 25th February 1525, and was consequently but ten years old at the time of Lord Thomas's arrest.
The ‘Great Earl’, the most authoritative figure in the English lordship from the late 1470s until his death, greatly augmented his familial estates in Kildare and beyond, and established the foundations for the Kildare ascendancy during the period c.1478–1534 – the high point in that dynasty's history.
This period of English governmental neglect came to an end in 1534 when Henry VIII was forced to intervene directly in Irish affairs in order to crush the revolt of his most prominent Irish servitor, Garret Og Fitzgerald, eleventh Earl of Kildare.
When Sir Gerald FitzGerald 11th Earl of Kildare was born about 1525, his father, Sir Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, was 40 and his mother, Elizabeth Grey, was 30. He married Mabel Browne on 29 May 1554, in London, England.
