Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies

Sir Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies was the son of John Fitzgerald and Ellen, daughter of Maurice FitzGibbon, the White Knight, and was the third of the Lords of Decies.^[1]

The Decies property was originally a part of the Desmond estate until James, the 8th Earl of Desmond, bequeathed to his younger son, Gerald, Decies and Dromana Castle.^[2]

Sir Gerald Fitzgerald married Ellice, daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and had issue:^[3]

• Sir Maurice Fitzgerald
• Sir James Fitzgerald
• Gerald Fitzgerald
• Mary, who married Sir Oliver Grace

See also

• Ashfield Gales

Notes

1. Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire London: Harrison, p. 561
2. Power, Patrick (1907). The Place Names of Decies London: David Nutt, p. 104.
3. Burke, A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, p. 561

References

Ancestry

Ancestors of Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies

Gerald FitzMaurice, 4th Earl Desmond               James FitzGerald, 7th Earl Desmond                       Eleanor Butler               Gerald FitzGerald, 1st Lord Decies                             Ulick FitzRickard Burke               Mary Burke                       John FitzGerald, 2nd Lord Decies                                   MacRichard Burke                       Margaret Burke                             Gerald Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord Decies                                         Maurice Fitzgibbon, the White Knight                             Ellen Fitzgibbon

Bibliography

• Burke, Sir Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. London: Harrison.
• Power, Patrick (1907). The Place Names of Decies. London: David Nutt.