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Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana
Lord of the Decies
Tenure 1643�1664
Predecessor Gerald FitzGerald of Dromana
Born c.?1635
Died 1662 or 1664
Spouse(s)
1. Katherine Power
2. Helen MacCarthy
Issue
Detail Katherine, Vicountess Grandison
Father Gerald FitzGerald of Dromana
Mother Mabel Digby
Sir John FitzGerald of Dromana (c.?1635 � 1662 or 1664) was the last of the
FitzGeralds of Dromana. He sat as MP for Dungarvan in the Irish Parliament of
1661�1666.

Birth and origins

Family tree
John FitzGerald with his two wives, his parents, and other selected relatives.[a]
John Oge
Power
d.v.p.* John Oge
FitzGerald
of Dromana
d. 1626 Robert
Digby
1574�1618
courtier Lettice
Baroness
Offaly
1580�1658
John
Power
5th Baron
Curraghmore
c. 1599 � 1661 Gerald
FitzGerald
of Dromana
1610�1643 Mabel
Digby Donough
1st Earl
1594�1665
Richard
Power
1st Earl
Tyrone
1630�1690 Katherine
Power
d. 1660 John
FitzGerald
of Dromana
d. 1664 Helen
d. 1722 George
4th Viscount
Grandison
c.?1617 � 1699
John Power,
2nd Earl
of Tyrone
d. 1693 Katherine
1660�1725 Edward
Villiers
c. 1654 � 1693
d.v.p.*
John
Villiers
1st Earl
1684�1766
Legend
XXX Subject of
the article XXX Power of
Curraghmore XXX Earls of
Clancarty XXX Viscounts & Earls
of Grandison
XXX Baron
Offaly
*d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)
John was born about 1635[3] probably at Dromana, the only son of Gerald FitzGerald
and his wife Mabel Digby. His father was esquire of Dromana and styled Lord of the
Decies. His family was a cadet branch of the FitzGerald of Desmond, an Irish Old
English family. The Dromana branch started when Gerald FitzGerald, the second son
of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond (died 1462) was given Dromana as appanage.
[4]
His mother was the second daughter of Sir Robert Digby and his wife Lettice Digby,
1st Baroness Offaly.[5] Her family was English and Protestant.

Irish Wars
His father was a protestant like his wife and sided with the government during the
Irish Rebellion of 1641 and the ensuing Irish Confederate Wars. He died in 1643 in
his early thirties, probably killed in action while fighting the Confederates.
Dromana castle had been lost to the insurgents in 1642 or 1643 when his mother
surrendered the castle to them. Murrough O'Brien, 6th Baron Inchiquin retook the
castle in April 1647.[6]

First marriage and child

FitzGerald married first in 1658 Katharine, daughter of John Power, 5th Baron
Curraghmore[7][8] and sister of Richard Power, 1st Earl of Tyrone.[9]

John and Katherine had an only daughter:

Katherine, rich heiress, who married first John Power, 2nd Earl of Tyrone, secondly
Edward FitzGerald-Villiers, and thirdly William Steuart
FitzGerald's first wife died on 22 August 1660.[10]

Second marriage
FitzGerald married secondly Helen, daughter of Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of
Clancarty.[11] The marriage was childless.[12]

House of Commons
When Charles II summoned the Irish Parliament of 1661�1666, FitzGerald stood for
Dungarvan Bourough and was elected[13] as one of its two representatives.

Death
FitzGerald died in 1662[14] or 1664.[11]

Notes and references

Notes
This family tree is based on genealogies of the FitzGeralds of Dromana[1] and the
Powers of Curraghmore.[2]
Citations
Burke 1866, p. 561.
Cokayne 1895, pp. 285�287.
Mackenzie 1907, p. 112. "his [Gerald's] son John, at this time [1643] about eight
years old ..."
Burke 1866, p. 204, right column. "II. Sir Gerald More FitzGerald, ancestor of the
FitzGeralds of Dromana, County Waterford, Lords of Decies"
Burke 1838, p. 462, left column. "2. Mabel m. [married] first to Gerald
Fitzgerald, esq. of Dromana, in the county of Waterford; and secondly, to Donagh
O'Brien, of Arragh."
Bagwell 1895, p. 323, left column, line 14. "Cappoquin and Dromana against which
he had cherished designs since 1642 were easily taken. There was a little fighting
at Dungarvan ... This was early in May [1647]."
Cokayne 1895, p. 286. "He [John Power] was born about 1599, being 8� years old in
1607, and was sent to England for education and admitted to the Inner Temple 1614.
Having been a lunatic for above 21 years before 1654, he escaped
'transplantation'.&mnsp... He d. 1661."
Mackenzie 1907, p. 119. "In 1658 ... John FitzGerald of Dromana ... took unto
himself as a wife Katharine, daughter of John Power, 5th Lord Power of
Carroghmore."
Burke & Burke 1909, p. 1839, line 54. "1. Katherine, m. [married] 1658, John
FitzGerald of Dromana, Lord of the Decies, and d. [died] 22 Aug. 1660."
Burke 1866, p. 561, line 72. "Sir John FitzGerald, of Dromana, Knt., M.P. for
Dungarvan, m. [married] 1st Catherine, dau. [daughter] of John, Lord Poer, she d.
[died] 22 August 1660, and 2ndly Helen, dau. of Donogh MacCarthy; he d. 1 March
1664 ..."
Burke 1866, p. 561, line 72. "Sir John FitzGerald, of Dromana, Knt., M.P. for
Dungarvan, m. [married] 1st Catherine, dau. [daughter] of John, Lord Poer, she d.
[died] 22 August 1660, and 2ndly Helen, dau. of Donogh MacCarthy; he d. 1 March
1664 ..."
Mackenzie 1907, p. 124. "John had no children by his second marriage, and when he
died in 1664, his daughter Katherine was left as the sole heiress of all his broad
acres."
House of Commons 1878, p. 635. "1661 / 11 April / John FitzGerald, esq. /
Dromana / ditto [Dungarvan Borough]"
Fuller 1904, p. 11. "To make matters still worse, her [Catherine's] father died in
1662."
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Bagwell, Richard (1895). "O'Brien, Murrough, first Earl of Inchiquin (1614�1674)".
In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. XLI. New York:
MacMillan and Co. pp. 320�327. OCLC 8544105.
Burke, John (1838). A Genealogic and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great
Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions or High Official Rank. Vol.
IV. London: Henry Colburn. OCLC 13131620.
Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited
and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC
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Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth Peter (1909). A Genealogical and Heraldic History
of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (71st
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Cokayne, George Edward (1895). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland,
Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant. Vol. VI (1st
ed.). London: George Bell and Sons. OCLC 1180818801. � N to R (for Power)
Fuller, James F. (1904). "The Heiress of Dromana, Two Hundred Years ago" (PDF).
Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. 2. 10 (61): 10�18.
House of Commons (1878). Return. Members of Parliament � Part II. Parliaments of
Great Britain, 1705�1796. Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801�1874. Parliaments
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Parliament of Ireland
Preceded by
Sir Richard Osborne, 2nd Baronet
John Hore
Member of Parliament for Dungarvan Borough
1661�1666
With: Sir Allan Broderick Succeeded by
John Hore
Martin Hore
Categories: Anglo-Irish familiesFitzGerald dynastyIrish MPs 1661�1666Members of the
Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Waterford constituenciesPoliticians
from County Waterford1630s births1660s deaths
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