Maurice L Fitzgerald

1390

Supervisor • Justice

Leader

With various irregulars and foot-soldiers assigned to defend County Kildare against rebel Irish, the earl was appointed, on September 14, 1358, supervisor of the four commissioners for raising and collecting their pay from that county....

1779

Member of the Parliament of Ireland • Barrister

Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry " Maurice FitzGerald, 16th Knight of Kerry " ( c.

FitzGerald died childless and was succeeded in his title by his uncle Robert FitzGerald, 17th Knight of Kerry.

Mayor

Dubhaltach MacFhirbhisigh states that: MacFhirbhisigh goes on to relate that they were kindred of the Mac Morris family of Brize, County Mayo,.

1520

Ellen Roche
Honora Fitzgibbon

Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond Thomas FitzJames FitzGerald
Ellice de Barry

Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond Image: Ireland 1450
' " The condition of the inhabitants within the Pale at this period is thus described by a cotemporary writer: ' What with the extortion of coyne and lyverye dayly, and wyth the wrongful exaction of osteing money, and of carryage and cartage dayly, and what with the Kinge's great subsydye yerely, and with the said trybute, and blak-rent to the Kinge's Iryshe enymyes, and other infynyt extortions, and dayly exactions, all the Englyshe folke of the countys of Dublin, Kildare, County Meath, and Airgíalla ben more oppressyd with than any other folke of this land, Englyshe or Iryshe, and of worsse condition be they athysside than in the marcheis.

but took him into favour, 26th August 1497, and granted him all the ' customs, pockets, poundage, and prize-wines of Limerick, Cork ( city ), Kinsale, Baltimore, County Cork, and Youghall, with other privileges and advantages.

16th-century Irish person • Person of the Tudor period

Extortion