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.