Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (c. 1528–1589)
Fitzgerald, Elizabeth (c. 1528–1589)
English noblewoman who was celebrated in verse. Name variations: Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald; The Fair Geraldine. Born at Maynooth, Ireland, around 1528; died in 1589; youngest daughter of George Fitzgerald, 9th earl of Kildare; married Sir Anthony Browne (d. 1548); married Edward Fiennes de Clinton, earl of Lincoln, around 1552.
Lady Elizabeth Fitzgerald, member of the household of the Princess Mary (Mary I ) and later Queen Catherine Howard , was married at age 15 to Sir Anthony Browne. He died five years later in 1548. She then married Edward Fiennes de Clinton, earl of Lincoln, around 1552. Fitzgerald has been celebrated in verse by Michael Drayton and Sir Walter Scott. Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, addressed a series of songs and sonnets to her, first published in Tottel's Miscellany in 1557.