Knight of Glin
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The Knight of Glin (
The family name "FitzGerald" comes from the (Norman) French "Fils de Gerald," i.e. "Son of Gerald."
- The coat-of-arms of the Glin family is: griffins collared and chained, and have a second crest: a castle with two towers, issuant from the sinister tower a knight in armor holding in the dexter hand a key proper. The Glin family seat is at Glin, Glin Castle, County Limerick, Ireland.[5]
- The coat-of-arms of the Glin family is:
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John Fitz-Thomas FitzGerald, by virtue of his
(VII) Sir John Fitz-John, Knight, was the first Knight of Glin, and had from his father the castles of Glincarbery and Beagh, county Limerick, Ireland. Children: John Fitz-John, mentioned below. Gerald Fitz-John, ancestor of the family of Clenlish and Castle Ishen, County Cork, Baronets.
VIII) Sir John Fitz-John del Glin was succeeded by his son.[5]
- "The earliest tradition I could find about Glin went back to 1569, when the [15th] knight, Thomas FitzGerald, was barbarously executed[why?] in Limerick. His mother, who was present at the execution, seized his head when he was beheaded and drank his blood. She then collected the parts of his dismembered body and put them in a linen sheet. When she set out for home with her precious burden she was followed by an immense concourse, including one hundred keening women.
- Somewhere east of O'Connor Kerry."[10]
- Somewhere east of
According to another legend, in the early 16th century under
- The tradition about the siege of Glin castle differs in many respects from the facts as given by Carew in Pacata Hibernia. We do know that tradition can be a completely distorting mirror, but the popular memory of a local event such as a battle, siege or massacre would be more vivid and more lasting and in essence more trustworthy than Carew's narrative, who was prejudiced and gives a complete travesty of the facts.
- The garrison of the castle, according to tradition, was divided into two sections, one of which was commanded by Donall na Searrach Culhane and the other by Tadhg Dore. Before the siege began, Carew, who had the knight's child as hostage, sent an order to the knight to surrender the castle at once or else he would blow the child out of the mouth of the cannon. The knight's answer was remembered but can only be rendered here by algebraic symbols[why?]: Gread leat. Ta X go meidhreach fos agus Y go briomhar. Is fuiriste leanbh eile do gheiniuint.
- The assault on the castle then began under the command of Capt. Flower but was beaten back with slaughter by the defenders. Three brothers named Giltenan played a heroic part in repulsing the attack and slew some of the best of Flower's men. Carew called up fresh reinforcements, which he placed under the leadership of Turlough Roe MacMahon, who lived at Colmanstown castle, County Clare, almost opposite Glin. Turlough was a man of evil reputation who had already committed many dreadful crimes against his own kith and kin and against the Irish people at large. He was the father of the celebrated Maire Ruadh MacMahon. He is referred to in a poem of the time as
- Traolach Ruadh an fhill agus an eithigh
- do mhairbh a bhean agus a leanbh in eineacht.
("Turlough Roe, the turncoat and vulture,/Killed his wife and child together.")
- The second assault also failed, but Turlough was determined to carry it through, for he hated with a hatred which evil men are known to feel towards those they have mortally injured. In the meantime the cannonading had played havoc with the defences of the castle. In the third attempt MacMahon was able to move in a large body of men who, after a gallant defence by the garrison, succeeded in capturing the castle. The Giltenans, Tadhg Dore and his brother, and Donall Culhane and two of his sons were slain in the final defence. Some of the garrison tried to escape by jumping into the water surrounding the castle, but only three men succeeded in getting away. These were Mahon Dillane, Lewy O'Connor and Donall Beag Culhane (whose father was slain in the last defence of the castle).[12]
The "Old Castle" of Glin, the scene of the above battle, is a ruin. The tower still stands with a historic plaque in place. After the destruction of the old castle, the Knights built the "New Castle", a beautiful Georgian mansion, on the banks of the Shannon Estuary about a mile west of the old site. The last Knight lived there until his death (as well as in Dublin and London).[citation needed]
The 17th Knight,
Under the
Following the war of independence and during the ensuing Civil War, in the early 1920s,
The 29th and last Knight (dormant or extinct) was Desmond FitzGerald, son of
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References
- ^ "Cartlann Téacsanna".
- ^ Graves, James, and Samuel Heyman, editors. "Unpublished Geraldine Documents, The Whyte Knight." The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, vol. IV, pg 37. Dublin University Press, Ireland. 1885, p. 3-27-37
- ^ "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage". 1850.
- ^ a b "BRITISH TITLES - KNIGHT". Burke's Peerage. Retrieved 4 June 2009.
- ^ a b c Genealogical and family history of northern New York
- ^ Graves, James (1869). "The Earls of Desmond". The Journal of the Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland. 1 (2): 459–498.
- ^ FITZGERALD Transcribed by Coralynn Brown from NORTHERN NEW YORK Genealogical and family history of northern New York: a record of the achievements of her people and the making of a commonwealth and the founding of a nation. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co. 1910.
- ^ The Glin Papers UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK OLLSCOIL LUIMNIGH Special Collections Library & Information Services Archived 2015-04-20 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Irish Independent, "After 700 years, I'm the last of the Irish knights", pg 16.
- ^ Folk traditions of the Knights 'Traditions of Glin and its neighbourhood' by Thomas F. Culhane in Home Thoughts from abroad - the Australian letters of Thomas F. Culhane published Glin, Glin Historical Society, 1998
- ^ "Desmond FitzGerald". The Daily Telegraph. 16 September 2011.
- ^ Culhane, 1998
- ^ heraldry.ws
- ^ a b Victoria Mary Clarke Archived 2007-10-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ RTE news June 2010
- ^ FITZGERALD Genealogical and family history of northern New York: 1910.
- ^ The Knights of Glin: A Geraldine family, J. Anthony Gaughan, Kingdom Books, Dublin, 1978
- ^ Feudal Warlords: the Knights of Glencorbry, Kenneth Nicholls, Paul MacCotter, 2009, https://www.academia.edu/2058504/Feudal_warlords_the_Knights_of_Glencorbry_with_Kenneth_Nicholls_