Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies

Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies was the son of John Fitzgerald and Ellen, daughter of Maurice FitzGibbon, the White Knight, and was the third of the Lords of Decies.[1]

The Decies property was originally a part of the Desmond estate until James, the 8th Earl of Desmond, bequeathed to his younger son, Gerald, Decies and Dromana Castle.[2]

Sir Gerald Fitzgerald married Ellice, daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and had issue:[3]

  • Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
  • Sir James Fitzgerald
  • Gerald Fitzgerald
  • Mary, who married Sir Oliver Grace

See also

Notes
  1. Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire London: Harrison, p. 561
  2. Power, Patrick (1907). The Place Names of Decies London: David Nutt, p. 104.
  3. Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, p. 561

References
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by
John Fitzgerald		 Lord of Decies
1533–1553		 Succeeded by
Sir Maurice Fitzgerald

Ancestry

Bibliography
  • Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison.
  • Power, Patrick (1907). The Place Names of Decies. London: David Nutt.
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