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KILDARE. 371 IX. 1513. 9. Gerald (Fm Gerald), Earl of Kildare, s. and h. by first wife ; culled " Geroit Otjc " (i.e., the younger) and " Qarrctt SfcJliton" (after his mother); b. 1487; was in England as a hostage, 1497— 1503, attending the funeral of Arthur, Prince of Wales (1502) as "Lord Gkkalb"; High Treasurer [1.]. 1503-13 ; sue. to his father in the Earldom [I.]. 3 Sep. 1513, as also as Lord Justice [I.], 1513. and was four times, ri:., 1513, 1515-19, 1521-25, and 1532-34 ; LOUD DwrTY [I.], being, however, frequently (1518-28, 1525-30, 1531, and 1534), recalled to England on suspicion of treason. In June 1520 he accompanied the King to Prance, and was present at the " field of the clotli of gold." He m. firstly in England in 1503 Elizabeth, (") da. of Sir John Zouche, of Oodnor, co. Derby, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John St. John, of Bletsho, Beds. She il. at Luean. (i Oct. 1517, and was bur. at Kilcullen. He hi. secondly, in 1519, also in England, Elizabeth. (6) da. of Thomas (Grey), 1st Marquess of Dorset, by Cecilia, suo jure Baroness Haringtom and Bonviu.h. He in the Tower of Loudon (being at that date still Lord DKr-UTY [I.]) 13 Dec. 1534, and was bur. in the chapel there.( c ) M.I. His widow was living at Beamnanoir, co. Leicester, Sep. 1535. X. 1534, JO. Thomas (Fitz Gerald), Earl of Kildare [ I. ]( d ), to s. and h., by first wife, called " Silken 27io»'as,"(°) b. in London, 153G. 1513; was constituted Vice Deputy of Ireland by bis father, the Deputy, when leaving, Feb. 1534, for England. Having, however, heard a false report that his father was to be beheaded, he renounced allegiance to the English crown 11 June, 1534, and commenced a desperate insurrectionf), during which occurred the murder of John Allcu, Archbishop of Dublin. He finally surrendered, IS Aug. 1532, to the Lord Deputy Grey, on promise of pardon, and was im- prisoned in the Tower of Loudon for 16 months, when (in violation of the promise) he and his five uncles) were drawn, hanged, and quartered as traitors at Tyburn, 3 Feb. 1536/7. He in. Frances, yst da. of Sir Adrian Fohtf.scuf, K.B., being coheir of her mother, his first wife, Anne, da. and h. Of Sir William StoNOB, of Stonor, Oxon. He d, s.p., as afsd., in his 24th year. Before bis death, however, the Earldom of (») See p. 370, note "f." () She was cousin (of the half blood) to King Henry VIII., their common grand- mother Elizabeth Wondville, being, by her second husband (King Edward IV.), mother of Elizabeth of York, the King's mother, and by her first husband (Sir John Grey) of Thomas, Marquess of Dorset, the father of this lady. (o) " For him was made the stone tabic which is at Carton, and on which is inscribed QeraUut comes Kildare, Jilius Gcraldi, A.D.W., mccccc xxxiii, si Dieu plet, C'rom a Bo. His portrait, by Holbein, is also at Carton, and has the following superscription: Gcraldus, Hlius Gcraldi, Comes Kildaric, atutis 43, A. l)ni. 1530." See "Earls of Kildare," p. 120. ( tt ) "He docs not appear to have assumed the title, nor is it alluded to except in the Englith act of attainder, 28 Hen. VIII., c. IS." See " Earls of Kildare," p. 144. It may be mentioned that the noble author of this work, as also other modern writers, speak of this Thomas ipp. 129—144) as "Lord Offaly* but he never seems to be known as " Oilaly," or, indeed, as otherwise than "Thomas Fitz Gerald," and so (only) he signs his own name. In the excommunication he is so spoken of ; in the act of attainder (28 Hen. VIII.) his admission as Vice Deputy to his father is recited [not as that of " Lord Offal j/," but] as that of the Earl's "son and heyre, named Thomas Fitz Gerald," and finally in the act of restoration (12 Eliz.) he is spoken of as " Thomas' Fitz Gerald, son and heir unto the said Earl " [of Kildare], and as " the said Thomas, laic Lord Thomas." The note in "Lodge," vol. i, p. 92 (quoting " Stani- hurst "}, gives (apparently) a truer account of the non-user of the Earldom by this Thomas than that given in the "Earls of Kildare." ( e ) So called front his having been attended on the day he declared his rebellion (11 June 1534) by a guard of 140 horsemen in coats of mail with silken fringes on their helmets. ( f ) It is stated that this Geraldine rebellion cost the King £40,000 [State Papers, vol. i., p. 331]. (8) Two of these were apparently in no way implicated in the plot, but the idea seems to have been to extei initiate the whole of the Geraldine race. 2 A 2