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 364 KERRY. (before his father) when the Viscountcy of Kitmaulc and the Barony of Odoriwj [I.] became extinct. XII. 1541. 12 Patrick (Fitz Maurice), Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw p.), br, ami h. male.!*) He m. (by dispensation) Slauy, da. of Murromjh (O'Brien), 1st EiBL ok TnoMOND [I.], by Eleanor, ila. of Thomas Fitz Gerald, Knight of the Valley. He tt. (of a cold taken after hunting) at Drumleggah in 1517 and was bur. at Ardfert. His widow HI. Sir Donald O'Bmen, of Dnagh. XIII. 1547. 18. Thomas (Fitz Maurice), Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw [I.], b. tmd h. He (/. uuui. and under age at Listowel Castle, co. Kerry (being in ward to the Earl of Desmond [I.J) and wan bur. at Ardfert 1519. XIV. 1549. 14- Edjiond (Fitz Maurice), Baron m Kerry and LtXKaW [I.J, br. and h. He also d. num. and under age at Beaulieu (alias Beale) Castle near Listowel (being iu ward to the said Karl of Desmond [I.]) a few months after his brother iu 1549. XV. 1549. 15. Gerard (Fitz Maurice), Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw [I.], uncle an! h. male, being 3d s. of Edmond, the 10th Barou, by his first, wife. He was called " the red-haired." He m. Julia, da. of Cormac Oge Mac Caiithv, Chieftain of Muskerry. He </. s.p. a month after his marriage, being slain at Desmond and was bur. 1 Aug. 1550, at Ardfert. His widow m. Cormac Mac-Carthy-Keagii, Chieftain of Carbery, XVI. 1550. 16. Thomas (Fitz Maurice), Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw [I.], only surv. br. and h„ being yst. s. of Edmond, the 10th Baron, by his first wife, was b. about 1502; served in the Imperial service in the wars at Milan till he sue. to the peerage [I.J in 1550 at which date he returned to Ireland.( b ) Hesatin the Paris. [I.] of 1556-57 (3 and i Ph. and Mary) and of 1560 (2 Eliz.) as also iu that of 1585.( c ) He was P.C. [I.] to Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queeu Elizabeth; was knighted in 1567 by the Lord Deputy Sidney. During the rebellion of James Fit/. Maurice, 1569-73, his conduct was suspicious, and in 1581 he raised a rebellion in Munster but, being defeated, returned to his allegiance shortly afterwards. He apparently as his first wife, Catharine, da. and h. of Teige Mac- Cafthy-More, elder br. of Donald, 1st Eaul OF Clancahe [I.J She d. of the small pox in the island of Eleanmoylenea in Louglene and was bur. (with her ancestors) in the Grey Friary of Irrelaugh. He m. apparently as his second wife (when aged 48) Margaret (called " the fair "), da. of James Fitz John (Fitz Gehald), Eahl of Desmoid [I.], by his second wife, More, da. of Sir Maolrouy O' Carroll. She d. 1563. He m. thirdly Penelope, da. of Sir Connor O'Bkikn, br. to Connor, 3d Eahl ok Thomond [1.] He d. at Lixnaw 16 Dec. lSHO^' 1 ) aged 88, and was bur. in the cathedral(') of Ardfert. His widow, by whom he had no issue, m. Anthony 0'Laughi.an, of Burreu. ( a ) As iu other Irish Baronies the succession devolved on the heir Wale to the exclusion of the heir general. ( b ) One Gerald Fitz Maurice having, before the Barou's arrival, eutered upou Lixnaw as the next heirmale, opposed tin; possession of the estate and title for nearly two years. In 1551, however, beissty led (in adted)"Lordof Kerry and captain of his nation," and on 1 Sep. 1554, he received Royal letters directed to " the Barou of Kierry," nnd on 23 Oct. a confirmation of his estate. ( c ) He is said to have been placed (by Mr. Molyneux, Ulster King of Amis), in the Pari, of 1556 "as the first Baron of Ireland, the Lord Athenry being marshalled next after him," but to have been placed in the Pari, of 1560 "after the Baron of Trimleston " [a Barony cr. in 1462.J ( 4 ) " He was the most beautiful man of that age and of such great strength that within a few months before his death, altho' then 88 years old, not three men in Kerry could bend his bow." [Ledge.] (») The Gov. of the garrison in the Abbey of Ardfert refused him burial there among hie ancestors,