Agnes (Leigh) Fitzgerald (abt. 1520 - abt. 1590)

Born about 1520 in England

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Descendants

Died about 1590 at about age 70 in England

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Biography

Agnes Leigh was born approximately 1520 was the daughter of Sir John Leigh of Stockwell, Surrey ^[1] and his wife Elizabeth Darcy

By 1544 she had married Sir Thomas Paston of Norfolk who died 1550 ^[1]

Following Thomas’ Death in 1550 she married Edward Fitzgerald by whom she was the mother of the 14th Earl of Kildare. ^[2]

Issue by Thomas Paston

1. Catherine Paston (b c 1535) m. Henry Newton - Issue
2. Edward Paston (1550 - 1630) m.1588 Margaret Berney - Issue

Issue by Edward FitzGerald ^[3]

1. Gerald FitzGerald, 1599 14th Earl of Kildare m. 1600 Elizabeth Nugent - Issue
2. Dudley Fitzgerald. (Mentioned in his Will so living 1585) ^[1]
3. Thomas FitzGerald, of Walton-on-Thames, co. Surrey (d. 1619), mar. Frances Randolph, 1st dau. of Thomas Randolph, Postmaster of England, - issue:
4. Elizabeth FitzGerald ( Queen’s maids of honour), m. Sir John Hill
5. Lettice FitzGerald, m1). 1584 as his 1st. wife Sir Ambrose Coppinger, of Dawley court, co. Middlesex (dsp. before 7 Apr 1604), m2). Sir John Poyntz,
6. Douglas FitzGerald (1566 - 1621) m. pre 1597 Francis Aungier, 1st Baron Aungier - issue

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Houses of Parliament Online - Sir Thomas Paston
2. ↑ Houses of Parliament Online - Edward FitzGerald
3. ↑ Cracroft's Peerage - Kildare

See also:

• Wikipedia contributors, "Edward Paston," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Edward_Paston&oldid=997531932 (accessed November 8, 2021).
• Kildare, The Earls of, and their Ancestors: from 1057 to 1773, with Supplement: Marquis of Kildare. 2 vols. Dublin, 1858-'62

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Timothy Wells for creating WikiTree profile Leigh-398 through the import of My-Family-6-Feb-2013.ged on Feb 6, 2013.