Adrian Fortescue (martyr)
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Sir Adrian Fortescue was a courtier at the court of King Henry VIII of England and member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic who was executed in 1539 and later beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr.
A painting of Fortescue located at the Collegio di San Paolo in Rabat, Malta
Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, also known as Silken Thomas, was a leading figure in 16th-century Irish history.
Adrian Fortescue (martyr)
…Anne died in 1518. By his first wife, Fortescue had two daughters: Margaret, married to Thomas Wentworth, 1st baron Wentworth; Frances, married to Thomas Fitzgerald, 10th earl of Kildare. secondly to Anne, daughter of Sir William Rede, of Boarstall, Buckinghamshire and widow of Sir Giles Greville. By his second…
Thomas Fitz Gerald, 10th Earl of Kildare
Illustration of the Earl of Kildare throwing down the sword of state.