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THE Fitzgerald family is of mixed Continental and Welsh origin. The ancestor of the Irish Fitzgeralds was Maurice Fitzgerald, a knight who, at the solicitation of King Dermod MacMorrough, went to Ireland in 1169, where he assisted Strongbow and Dermod in securing a footing.
May 9, 2014 · The FitzGerald family were originally located in Maynooth Castle, Co. Kildare. In later centuries they owned estates in Waterford with their country residence being Carton House, the magnificent Georgian edifice outside Maynooth.
Sep 12, 2013 · Perhaps the most important Anglo-Norman dynasties established in Ireland in the late 1160s, the Fitzgerald, or Geraldine, family gave Ireland two of its most famous noble houses, the earls of...
The main branches of the family are: The FitzMaurices and FitzGeralds of Kildare (Earls of Kildare from 1316, later Marquesses of Kildare and from 1766 Dukes of Leinster and Premier Peers of Ireland). The current head is Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster.
Jun 21, 2014 · One of Ireland’s premier aristocratic families, the FitzGeralds lived for almost 300 years in the Palladian mansion Carton House, outside Maynooth, in Co Kildare.
- Terence Dooley
They explore the rise and fall of the FitzGeralds of Kildare from their arrival with the Anglo-Normans in 1169, and how, as a family and large landowners, they charted their course politically, economically, culturally and socially through the following 800 years.
Feb 16, 2015 · Thomas Nelson argues that Fitzgeralds maintained a good relationship with their tenants throughout the Land War of the 1870s and 80s.
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