General Notes

Ancestor of the Knights of Kerry
"Said to be John's son by a wife of an O'Cinneidigh (o'Kennedy)
The long association between this family and Listowel is recalled in the name of the scenic stretch of land along the southern bank of the Feale, near the town, which is known as the 'Knight of Kerry's' or Ballinruddery, the Town of the Knight. The names are appropriate since, in earlier times, the Knights of Kerry intermittently occupied the partially ruined castle situated here and, later, until c.1870, lived in a beautiful, thatched, seventeenth-century mansion which stood nearby and ... which ... was re-named Woodford ... by the 18th century".

"The Knights of Kerry lived in Dingle. Rahinane Castle, was once home of the knights. This castle was the residential fort of the chieftains of the locality before the arrival of the Normans. The Fitzgeralds constructed a number of 'castles' (in reality fortified tower-houses) in the western part of the Dingle Peninsula, examples of which survive at Gallarus, Minard and at the family seat of Rahinane. The Knight of Kerry lived there until Cromwellian times. All the Fitzgerald castles were either captured or destroyed by Cromwellian forces around 1650. "

"It would seem that the property of the Knight[s] of Kerry remained considerable until at least the second half of the 17th century. Thus we know that John FitzGerald, 12th Knight of Kerry, successfully petitioned the House of Commons in 1665 for the return of property which he had held near Dingle and in the baronies of Clanmaurice, Iraghticonnor, Trughanacmy and Magunihy and which had been vested in the crown under the Act of Settlement. The family seems to have lost much of its Kerry property between this time and the middle of the 18th century."

Sources:
- person, family: Renaud de Paysac

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SOURCES:
"Ancestors/Descendants of Royal Lines" (Contributors: Manuel Abranches de Soveral, Reynaud de Paysac, F.L. Jacquier <Genealogy of Lewis Carroll, Justin Swanstrom, The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage; Debrett's Peerage & Baronage; Table of descendants French Canadian Genealogical Society; Families of Monfort-sur-Risle & Bertrand de Bricquebec; The Dukes of Normandy, XXXXI, Paul Leportier>, H.R. Moser <Burke Peerage>, L. Orlandini, O.Guionneau, L.B. de Rouge, E. Polti, A.Terlinden <Genealogy of the existing British Peerage, 1842>, L. Gustavsson, C. Cheneaux, E. Lodge, S. Bontron <Brian Tompsett>, R. Dewkinandan, C. Donadello) http://geneastar.org.