Everything about James Fitzedmund Fitzgerald totally explained
John Fitzedmund Fitzgerald was the hereditary
Seneschal of
Imokilly, an Irish nobleman of the Anglo-Norman Fitzgerald dynasty in the province of
Munster, who rebelled against the crown during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth of England.
Fitzgerald was the son of Edmund Fitzmaurice Riskald and Shylie, daughter of Maolrony O'Carroll, and the family's territory was in modern
County Cork.
First Desmond Rebellion
During the first of the
Desmond Rebellions in 1569, Fitzgerald was besieged in Ballymartyr by the lord deputy of Ireland, Sir
Henry Sidney, and having taken casualties he fled with his company through a bog which was hard by the walls of the town. He held out with his fellow rebel,
James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald in the woods of
Aherlow till February 1573, when he submitted with Fitzmaurice to the president of Munster, Sir
John Perrot, and was granted his pardon in the church of
Kilmallock. In March 1575 he accompanied Fitzmaurice and the White Knight,
Edmund Fitzgibbon, on the
La Arganys to
St Malo Brittany, where they were received by the governor; he returned in July of the same year. On the 16th of November 1576 he complained to Lord Justice Sir
William Drury that
Gerald Fitzgerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, was coshering 60 horse and 100 horseboys on his territory.
Second Desmond Rebellion
On Fitzmaurice's landing in July 1579 at the start of the
Second Desmond Rebellion, Fitzgerald went into rebellion instantly. After Fitzmaurice's untimely death he, rather than Desmond, became the real leader of the rebellion, receiving the brunt of the crown's offensive under the command of Sir
Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde. It was often reported that he'd been killed, but he survived many engagements, despite a severe wound and the death of his brother. In February 1581 he almost captured Sir
Walter Raleigh. In May 1583, as the rebellion petered out, his mother was executed by Ormond. On June 14 he submitted on conditions, having only 24 sword and 4 horse left at his command. Ormond respected his bravery and pleaded with the queen's secretary, Sir
William Cecil, for his pardon. His lands became a serious controversy in the subsequent plantation of Munster, and he was considered a main route for Spanish intelligence. In March 1587 he was arrested by Sir
Thomas Norris and confined in
Dublin Castle, where he died in February 1589, a few days after it had been decided that he should enjoy the profit of his lands.
Legacy
Fitzgerald married Honora Fitzmaurice, who bore him male twins in about 1589, and two daughters. His heir was granted in wardship, at the age of one and a half years, to one Captain Moyle.
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