Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies was the son of John Fitzgerald and Ellen, daughter of Maurice FitzGibbon, the
White Knight.
The Decies property was originally a part of the Desmond estate until James, the 8th
Earl of Desmond
Earl of Desmond is a title in the peerage of Ireland () created four times. When the powerful Earl of Desmond took arms against Queen Elizabeth Tudor, around 1578, along with the King of Spain and the Pope, he was confiscated from his estates ...
, bequeathed to his younger son, Gerald, Decies and Dromana Castle.
John Fitzgerald died at Dromany on December 18, 1524, when his son and heir Gerald Fitzgerald entered into possession of the premises. Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies, died at
Templemichael, February 25, 1553, and was succeeded by his son and heir, Maurice, first Viscount Decies.
Sir Gerald Fitzgerald married Ellice, daughter of
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1539) also known as Red Piers (Irish ''Piers Ruadh''), was from the Polestown–– branch of the Butler family of Ireland. In the succession crisis at the death of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl ...
and had issue:
[Burke, ''A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire'', p. 561]
*Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
*Sir James Fitzgerald
*Gerald Fitzgerald
*Mary, who married Sir Oliver Grace
See also
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Ashfield Gales
The Ashfield Gales consisted of six generations of a Gale family who owned the Ashfield estate in Killabban Parish, Queens County, Ireland (subsequently renamed County Laois) from the mid-17th Century until 1851.
History
The lineage of the Ashfi ...
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1553 deaths
16th-century Irish people
Gerald
Gerald is a male Germanic given name meaning "rule of the spear" from the prefix ''ger-'' ("spear") and suffix ''-wald'' ("rule"). Variants include the English given name Jerrold, the feminine nickname Jeri and the Welsh language Gerallt and Iris ...
Year of birth unknown