Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare (1562 – 30 September 1597) was an Irish peer and soldier.

Background

Kildare was the second son of

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and Mabel Browne. cites His eldest brother died in 1580, and Henry inherited the earldom in 1585.

Military career

Nicknamed Henry "na Tuagh", or Henry "of the Battleaxes", he fought against the Spanish invaders in Ireland in 1588. In 1597, he helped quell the Earl of Tyrone's uprising in

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, where he was mortally wounded. Wounded in a skirmish on the Blackwater in July 1597, he was brought to Drogheda where he died of his wounds on 30 September 1597.

Family

Kildare married

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, daughter of

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and Katherine Carey, in 1589. They had no sons, and Kildare was succeeded by his brother William FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Kildare. He had at least two surviving daughters: *

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, cites (''c.'' 1590 – died between 1661 and 1683), married firstly

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, and secondly Nicholas Barnewall, 1st Viscount Barnewall and had children from both marriages. *

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, who married

Luke Plunkett, 1st Earl of Fingall Lucas More Plunket of Killeen, County Meath (before 1602 – 29 March 1637), styled Lucas Môr, tenth lord Killeen, created Earl of Fingall on 26 September 1628, was an Irish peer. Biography Plunket was the elder son of Christopher Plunket, 9th B ...

, when he was still Baron Killeen. She died in London in 1611, whereas her widowed husband married three more times and became Earl of Fingall in 1628.

Notes

References

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1562 births 1597 deaths People from County Kildare 16th-century Irish military personnel People of Elizabethan Ireland Earls of Kildare Barons Offaly