Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of
- Kildare, Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of
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▪ Irish leader
born 1513, London, Eng.
died Feb. 3, 1537, London
leader of a major Irish rebellion against King
Henry VIII of England. The failure of the uprising ended the Fitzgerald family's hereditary viceroyalty of Ireland and led to the tightening of English control over the country.
When his father, the Irish lord deputy Gerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, was called to London in February 1534 to answer charges of disloyalty, Thomas Fitzgerald was left in charge of Ireland. Rumour that his father had been executed caused Fitzgerald to renounce allegiance to Henry VIII and assert allegiance to papal authority in June 1534. (His father was not to die until the following September—of natural causes.) Fitzgerald seized Dublin, and his partisans murdered Archbishop John Alen. Henry had already appointed Sir William Skeffington as lord deputy. Skeffington recaptured Dublin and in March 1535 stormed Fitzgerald's stronghold, Maynooth Castle. Recognizing that he would not receive the aid he had expected from Spain or Scotland, Fitzgerald surrendered in August 1535. After Ireland had been completely pacified 18 months later, he and his five uncles were hanged for treason.
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