256 DESMOND XF. 1595. 15- James FitzThomas (FitzGerald), s. and h., assumed the title of Earl of Desmond [I.] when he joined the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion in I598,(*) taking command in Munster, and was called "The Sugdn {i.e. "the Earl of Straw ").() He appears to have m., istly, in 1585, his cousin, Margaret, 2nd da. of John (Power), Baron le Power [I.], by Eleanor (or Ellice), da. of James Fitzjohn (FitzGerald), 13th Earl of Desmond. He ;«., 2ndly, Ellen, widow of Maurice FitzGibbon,(') sister of Theobald (Butler), jrdBARON Caher [1.], da. of Piers Butler, by ( — ), da. of ( — ) (Butler), Baron DuNBOYNE [I.]. She was living (though possibly divorced) 3 Oct. 1600. He was attainted 10 Mar. 1 600/1, and finally was taken prisoner 29 May 1601, in a cave near Slieve Grot, co. Tipperary, by Edmund FitzGibbon, the White Knight,() and sent to England, where he d. s.p. legit., in the Tower of London, and was bur. 28 Apr. 1607, in St. Peter's Chapel-C") XVl. 1608 16. John FitzThomas (FitzGerald), br. and h., or who assumed the title of Earl of Desmond [I.]. He 1 61 2. had assisted his brother in his rebellion, but fled to Spain in 1603. He m. ( — ), da. of Richard Comer- ford, of Dangenmore, co. Kilkenny. He was living in Spain in 1615. XVII. 1616. 17. Gerald FiTzJoHN (FitzGerald), only s. and h. to He appears also to have assumed the title of Earl of 1632. Desmond [I.], and served in the armies of the King of Spain and the Emperor. He d., unm., in 1632, in Germany, when the issue male of James (8th Earl), Maurice (9th Earl), (*) In 1 58 1 he petitioned the Queen and Lord Burghley that his father might be acknowledged Earl of Desmond and restored to the Earldom, and that he might have assistance to extirpate the present [Gerald Fitzjames] rebel Earl. V.G. C") Letters from him to the King of Spain, dated "from my camp, 14 Mar. 1599," and soliciting aid against the English, are printed in Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield MSS., part x, pp. 66-8. V.G. ("=) He, who was slain at Clogher, 1568, was s. and h. ap. of John Oge, the White Knight. V.G. C) This Edmund was next brother to Maurice FitzGibbon abovenamed, and sue. his father as White Knight in 1569. " He had one thousand pounds given him from her Majestic for the service." {Pacata Hibernia). V.G. (') Cox states that the Sugan Earl was the handsomest man of his time; and Sir George Carew, in a letter to the Privy Council, dat. at Cork, 3 June i6oi, refers to him as "a man the most generally beloved by all sortes (as well in this towne as in the contrey) that in my life I have ever knowen." V.G.
