Sir Thomas Fitzmaurice, 16th Lord of Kerry

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ame: Thomas FITZMAURICE Suffix: [15th Lord of Kerry] Prefix: Lord 1 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1502 2 Death: 16 DEC 1590 in Lixnaw, Co Kerry, Ireland 1 3 Burial: Ardfert Cathedral, Ardfert , Co Kerry, Ireland 1 Note: 1

   Acceded: 1550

   The Complete Peerage vol.VI, pp. 209-211.

Father: Edmund FITZMAURICE Mother: Una MACMAHON

Marriage 1 Margaret "the Fair" FITZGERALD

Children

   Has Children Patrick FITZMAURICE b: 1541 or 1555

Marriage 2 Penelope O'BRIEN

Marriage 3 Catherine MACCARTHY

Sources:

   Text: Brian Tompsett's Royal Genealogy & Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, World Wide Web site: Available: [Online]: www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal

   Text: Calculated approximately

   Title: Cokayne's Complete Peerage

   Author: George E. Cokayne

   Publication: 1887, 1910-1959, 1984

   Repository: Book

   Repository: Cont. by John Young

   Text: the best source for British gentry and nobility

   Text: 7:206-207 

Thomas FitzMaurice, 16th Baron of Kerry Born A.D. 150279. Died 16 December 159079 at Lixnaw.

As the fourth son of Edmund (10th Baron) and Úna (daughter of Teige Mac Mahon), Thomas (16th Baron) could not reasonably expect to inherit the title.

Thomas was trained as a soldier at Milan in Italy and served many years under the Emperors of Germany79. When Gerald (15th Baron) died, the whereabouts of Thomas (16th Baron) were unknown and another person temporarily assumed the title and estates of the Lord of Kerry. Then, Joan Harman, the old childhood nurse of Thomas, set off to find him. She went first to France and then to Italy. She finally found him at the court of the Duke of Milan. Joan died not long after delivering her message65.

Thomas (16th Baron) returned to Ireland where he apparently had no trouble in claiming his title and estate65. Thomas (16th Baron) sat in the Parliaments 3 and 4 Philip and Mary, and 2 Queen Elizabeth, and in that of Lord Deputy Sir John Perrott 158479.

Thomas is said to have revolted against Queen Elizabeth.

From Ref. 39, p. 255: .....the FitzMaurices had been dispossessed of their ancient burial place in the preceding century by Governor Zouch, who.... refused to allow Thomas the sixteenth Lord Kerry to be buried with his forefathers in the abbey. According to Burke's Peerage79, Thomas (16th Baron) married firstly Catharine, daughter of Teige MacCarthy Mór, a brother of Dónal, Earl of Clancare and had four sons and one daughter:

• Patrick, 17th Baron

• Edmund, killed at Kingsale, leaving a daughter Mary who married Teige MacCarthy of Cosmange.

• Robert, killed in the Isles of Arran, leaving a son, Gerald, a chief Cmdr. under Philip III of Spain.

• Richard, who had a son, Gerald, whose son, Edmund, d.s.p.

• Joan, married 3rd Earl of Thomond.

According to the Four Masters as quoted by Cusack86, Thomas (16th Baron) married Catherine, the daughter of Fergus, son of Donnell, son of Cormac Ludheach MacCarthy. According to the Four Masters, this Catherine died in A.D. 1582.

According to Burke's Peerage79, Thomas (16th Baron) married secondly, circa 1550, Margaret, daughter of 15th Earl of Desmond; and thirdly Penelope, daughter of Sir Donal O'Brien, brother of Conor, 3rd Earl of Thomond, but had no issue by the last two marriages.

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