The Fitzgeralds of Dublin #1-3 by Lorna Peel

Ireland in 1450, showing the Geraldine earldoms of Kildare and Desmond The Fitzmaurices and FitzGeralds of Desmond ( Barons Desmond, later Earls of Desmond).The current head is Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Duke of Leinster. The FitzMaurices and FitzGeralds of Kildare ( Earls of Kildare from 1316, later Marquesses of Kildare and from 1766 Dukes of Leinster and Premier Peers of Ireland).His father, Baron Walter FitzOther, was the first Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle for William the Conqueror, and was the Lord of 38 manors in England, making the FitzGeralds one of the 'service families' on whom the King relied for his survival. Gerald de Windsor ( Gerald FitzWalter) was the first Castellan of Pembroke Castle in Wales, and became the male progenitor of the FitzMaurice and FitzGerald Dynasty ('fitz', from the Anglo-Norman fils indicating 'sons of' Gerald). They achieved power through the conquest of large swathes of Irish territory by the sons and grandsons of Gerald de Windsor (c. The dynasty has also been referred to as the Geraldines and Ireland's largest landowners. They have been peers of Ireland since at least the 13th century, and are described in the Annals of the Four Masters as having become ' more Irish than the Irish themselves' or Gaels, due to assimilation with the native Gaelic aristocratic and popular culture. The FitzGerald dynasty is a noble and aristocratic dynasty of Cambro-Norman and Anglo-Norman origin. Arms of FitzGerald: Argent a saltire gulesĬarton House, was the ancestral seat for over 700 years of the Dukes of Leinster

The Fitzgeralds of Dublin #1-3 by Lorna Peel