James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond [SEP] father
James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond
James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond (d. 1529) was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Desmond. He plotted against King Henry VIII with King Francis I of France in 1523 and with Emperor Charles V in 1528 or 1529.
Alfred Webb tells us of this earl that:
"[He] succeeded on his father's death in 1520. In 1529 he proffered fealty to the Emperor Charles V., and declared himself willing to enter into a league against
as the Battle of Cluhar and Moor, in 1521, against the Earl of Desmond, James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond, who was wasting much of Munster. The Earl of Desmond was slain in the battle. Cormac was under the command of his distant kinsman and future father-in-law Cormac Laidir Oge MacCarthy, Lord of Muskerry.
Marriage and issue.
Cormac na Haoine married Julia, daughter of Cormac Oge MacCarthy, 5th Lord of Muskerry, and they had issue:
1. Donal of