Resultado da Busca
16th-century woodcut of Silken Thomas's attack on Dublin Castle. Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare (1513 – 3 February 1537), also known as Silken Thomas (Irish: Tomás an tSíoda), was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish history.
- Elizabeth Zouche
- Title forfeited
- 1534–1537
- Gerald FitzGerald
Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare (born 1513, London, Eng.—died Feb. 3, 1537, London) was the leader of a major Irish rebellion against King Henry VIII of England. The failure of the uprising ended the Fitzgerald family’s hereditary viceroyalty of Ireland and led to the tightening of English control over the country.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Contributed by. Lyons, Mary Ann. FitzGerald, Thomas (‘Silken Thomas’) (1513–37), 10th earl of Kildare , magnate and rebel, was the only son of Gerald FitzGerald (qv) (1487–1534), 9th earl of Kildare, lord deputy of Ireland, and his first wife, Elizabeth (d. 1517), daughter of Sir John Zouche of Codnor, Derbyshire, and his wife ...
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.
23 de mai. de 2018 · Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare. views 2,131,713 updated May 23 2018. Fitzgerald, Thomas, 10th earl of Kildare [I] (1513–37). In 1534 Fitzgerald's father, the 9th earl, was recalled as lord deputy to England and imprisoned in the Tower in disgrace.
Silken Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare. Alfred Webb. A Compendium of Irish Biography. 1878. FitzGerald, Thomas, 10th Earl of Kildare, son of the 9th Earl, commonly known as "Silken Thomas," was born in England in 1513. In 1534, then bearing the title of Lord Offaly, he was appointed Vice-Deputy by his father.
Thomas Fitzgerald, Lord Offaly, tenth earl of Kildare (1513–1537), leader of the Kildare rebellion (1534–1535), was born in London and spent much of his youth in England. In February 1534, before his father, Lord Deputy Gerald Fitzgerald (ninth earl of Kildare), answered a summons to the Henrician court, he appointed Thomas as vice-deputy ...
