368 KILBRYDE — KILDAKE. KILBRYDE. i.e., " Braco of Kilbryde, co. Cavan," Barony [LI (Duff), er. 1735 ; see " Fife Earldom [I.], cr. 1759. 1ULCOXNEL OF GARBALLY. i.e., " Kiicoxxel ok Garbau.y, co. Galway," Barony [1.1 (Trench) cr 1737', see "Clancartt" Earldom [I.], cr. 1603. KILC0UR8IE. i.e, " Kilcour«ie, in the Kino's county," Viscountcy (Lamhart), cr. 1647, with the Earldom of Cavan [I.], which Bee. KILCULLEN. i.e., " Kilcitllex, co. Kildare," Barony [I.] (Eustace), cr. 1535; sec Baltixglass " Viscountcy [I.], cr. 16*1 ; both dignities forfeited 1685. KILDARE.Cj Earldom [I.] 1. John Friz Thomas Fitz Gerald^ 1 ') Lord of the I 131G Barony of Oft'aly, co. Kildare, a. and h. of Thomas Fitz Mac-hick, of Geashill. by his first wife, Kohesia, da. and h. of Richard de St, Michael, of liheban, Atliy, and Woodstock (which Thomas was yr. br. of Maurice Fitz Maurice and yet, S. of Maurice Fitz Gerald, both Lords of the Barony of Offaly nfsd., 1205 to 1277), was 4. about 1250 ;|, c ) sue. in 1287 by settlement, his cousin, Gerald Fitz Maurice, Lord of the Barony of Oft'aly (1277 to 12*7) becoming, either at that date or certainly before ]298,( a ; the heir male of those Barons; received from the King in 1297 a grant of the manors of Kildare, Rath- angan. &0., on tlie surrender of William de Vesci,(°) their former owner ; assisted the King in the Scotch wars, 12% — 1301 ; was in command, in 1312, against the rebel Irish in Monster, and, 1315-16, distinguished himself against the usurpation of Edward Bruce (who was crowned King of Ireland) and was in reward thereof cr. by patent at Westm. 14 May 13IG, EAEL OF KILDARE [I.] with rem. to the heirs male of his body.(f) He i». Blanche, da of John Kochk. of Fermoy, by Eleanor, da. of Maurice Fitz Thomas (Fitz Maurice), 2d Baron of Khrry and Lixnaw [I.] lie <1. at Maynooth (or Laraghbryan) 10 Sep. 1318 (a few months after his deration to the Earldom) and was bur. in the Grey Abbey at Kildare. (») See vol. Hi, p 358, note " a," sub " Fitz Gerald," for notice of the Duke of Leinstev's -work entitled " The Earls of Kildare " and the " Addenda" thereto. ( b ) See vol. iii, p. 359, sub " Fitz Gerald of Offaly," for some account of him and his ancestry. ( c ) See vol. iii, p. 83, note " e," sub " Desmond," as to the anecdote of a monkey retcuing a baby of the Geraldine family from impending destruction, sometimes told as happening to r.his John Fitz Thomas in the Castle of Woodstock, near Atliy, during an alarm of fire, and sometimes as happening to Thomas Fitz Maurice (Eitz Gerald), Lord of Decies and Desmond [L], at Traleein 1261 (when aged nine months) on the slaughter of his father and grandfather. See " Earls of Kihlarc " (as in note •' a " next above), p. 20. ( d ) See vol. iii, p. 359, note b," as to this point. ( c ) See vol i, p. x (preface) as to the devolution of the honour of Kildare from Dermot Mi Horough (thro' the families of Marshall and Ferrers) to Vcsci. ( f ) The patent is set out in " Lodge," vol. i, p. 78, as also in " the Earlt of Kildare " (see note " a " next above), p. 305, where it is stated that Selden in his " Titles of Honour " says that " this iB the most ancient form of creation he had seen."
