Honora FitzGerald
b. 1575
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Honora FitzGerald was a daughter of Sir Edmond FitzGerald of Ballymaloe and Cloyne in east Cork, and she married Patrick, seventeenth Baron of Kerry and Lixnaw, by March 1618. She is one of a chain of Honoras that runs through this family for a century and a half, the name entering with the O'Briens of Thomond and passing down through the FitzMaurices to the Honora who married into the Piers family.
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✓ DOCUMENTED (Burke's LANSDOWNE lineage): HONORA, dau. of SIR EDMOND FITZGERALD, of BALLYMALOE and Cloyne, co. Cork; m. by March 1617/8 Patrick, 17th Baron Kerry. One of the chain of Honoras: her granddaughter Honora Fitzmaurice (m. Piers) carries the name onward - though the name enters the family earlier still via Lady Honora O'Brien (I99145). Direct ancestress. Added 21 Jul 2026. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| ✓ CP VII p.213: 'Honor, 2nd da. of Sir Edmond FitzGerald, of Ballymaloe and Cloyne (co. Cork), by Ellen, da. of David FitzJames (Barry), Viscount Buttevant'. Mother added 26 Oct 2026. Will dated 16 Jun 1680, pr. Dublin 1681. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. VII (1929), 'Kerry' pp.201-214 (article by J. Brownbill, revised by G.H. Orpen), read 25-26 Oct 2026 (archive.org djvu text).