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 370 K1LDAKE. (Fitz Gerald), 7th Earl ok Drsmontj [I.], by Mary, da. of TTHck de Burgh, of Clanricarde. Iterf. 25 March 1477, and was bur. in All Hallows, Dublin afsd. ilia widow d. I486 and was bur. in the monastery of Adare which she and her husband had founded. YIII. 1477. 8. Gerald (Fitz Gerald), Earl of Kildare [I.], s. and h., called " Gcroit More" or " Gerald the Great." He sue. to the Earldom [I.], 25 March 1177, and was during a space of 33 yean continually either Lord Justice or Lord Deputy [I.]. W«-i 1 177, 1483, 14S4, 14S5, 149(5, 149S, and 1503 to 1513. He was a zealous supporter of the house of York and acknowledged Lambert Sinmel( :l ) as the heir of the throne attending his Coronation, 2 May 1 IS7, at Dublin as King Edward VI. For this act he was pardoned, and was sum. with the rest of the Irish nobility in 14S9 to Greenwich, ('■) but he was, however, attainted; 11 ) 1494-9) (10 Hen. VII.) on suspicion of favouring the claims of Perkiu Warbeck and confined two years in the Tower of London^) but was restored and reappointed as Lord Deputy [I.] He repaid the confidence shewn him by successfully opposing Perkiu Warbeck, who had landed at Cork in 1497 to claim the Crown, ami defeating 19 Aug. 1504,atKnoek-Tuagh,( c ) near Galway, the largest army of Irish rebels raised since the invasion of 1169, He was, as a reward, o K.G-., being installed (by proxy) 4 May 1505, He m. firstly about 1 ISO Alison, da. and coheir of Rowland (Eustace), 1st Baron of Pohtlesteu [I.], by Maud, da, and coheir of Jenieo D'Artois, of Ardglass and Strangford, eo. Down. She, who inherited the manor of Portlester, co. Meath, d. (of grief) during her husband's captivity in England, 22 Nov. 1494. and was bur. in the Grey Abbey of Kilcullrn. He m. secondly, in England, in 149G Elizabeth, (') da. of Sir Oliver St. John, of Lydiard Tregoz, Wilts, by Elizabeth, da. of Henry (Scropf), 4ih Lord ScboPB of Bolton. The Earl was mortally wounded while besieging Lemyvanna (Leap Castle) in King's county and d. shortly afterwards at Kildare, 3 Sep. 1513, being bur. 16 Oct. at All Hallows (now Ch. Ch), Dublin afsd. His widow d. 28 June 1510. (") "It is remarkable that the Irish Annalists have always considered him as the true Earl of Warwick." J" Paris of Kildare," p. 47.] ( b ) See their names in the preface to vol. i, p. iii, note " a, 1 ' and sec also vol. iii, p Sti. note "a," sub " Desmond." The Earl of Kildare was the first in rank of them. The King received them graciously tho' he sarcastically said to the Lords who had supported Simnel that " they would crown apes [timiat] should he be long absent." ( c ) The war cry of these Earls " Crom-a-liuo " (as alsoother similar ones) was abolished by act 10 Hen. VII.. c. 20, the direction being that none should call on any but "St. George or the name of his Sovereign Lord, the King of England, for th< time being." (See appendix ii to the " Bark of Kildare.") This act was not repealed till 187( — ) tho' sometimes evaded by prefixing the words " Si Den plait " to the old motto. The war cry of the Eitz Geralds of Desmond, was " Shanet a Boo ;" that of the Burgha of Clanricarde, " Galriagh a Boo," that of the Butlers " Butler a Boo," &c, the words "a Boo" signifying "to victory" (or "for ever") while "Cram," " Shanet," See., were the names of fortified castles. ( a ) Many anecdotes arc told of him during this epoch, e.g., that having obtained the King's permission that he should have any councellor he chose to defend him, he replied that he would " choose the best in England - the King himself ;" also that being accused of having burnt the cathedral of Cashel, in consequenco of a feuil with the Archbishop, he replied " By my troth I never would have done it but 1 thought the Bishop was in it," and that finally the King, being much impressed with his frankness and quickness, in answer to an objection that "All Ireland cannot rule this man" replied " Then he shall rule all Ireland." ( e ) This battle '' certainly broke the strength of the western ami southern septs." [Earl) of Kildare.] (') She was cousin (of the half blood) to King Henry VII., their common ancestress, Margaret Beauchamp, being, by her second husband (John, Duke of Somerset), mother of Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, the King's mother, and, by her first husband (Sir Oliver St. John), mother of Sir Oliver St. John, of Lydiard Tregoz, father of Elizabeth, 2d wife of the 8th Earl of Kildare, as also of Sir John St. John, of Blctsho, the father of Dame Elizabeth Zouche, mother of Elizabeth, 1st wife of the 9th Earl of Kildare.