Biography of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657

Paternal Family Tree: Obrien

Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard was born to Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond.

On 11 May 1623 Gilbert Gerard 2nd Baron Gerard died. His son [her future husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 10) succeeded 3rd Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.

After 18 May 1625 [her future husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 12) and Mary Fane Baroness Gerard (age 19) were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland (age 45) and Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland (age 43).

On 21 Aug 1636 Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 23) and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard were married. She by marriage Baroness Gerard of Gerard's Bromley. She the daughter of Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 48) and Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 56).

On 26 Jul 1639 [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 51) died. His brother [her uncle] Barnabas O'Brien 6th Earl Thomond succeeded 6th Earl Thomond.

In 1640 [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 60) died.

On 24 Apr 1640 [her husband] Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard (age 27) died. His son [her step-son] Charles Gerard 4th Baron Gerard (age 6) succeeded 4th Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley.

In 1642 Peter Leicester 1st Baronet (age 27) and [her former sister-in-law] Elizabeth Gerard Lady Leicester were married.

In 1644 John Byron 1st Baron Byron (age 45) and [her former sister-in-law] Eleanor Needham Baroness Byron (age 17) were married. She by marriage Baroness Byron of Rochdale in Lancashire. The difference in their ages was 28 years.

Evelyn's Diary. 19 Mar 1652. Invited by Lady Gerrard, I went to London, where we had a great supper; all the vessels, which were innumerable, were of porcelain, she having the most ample and richest collection of that curiosity in England.

Evelyn's Diary. 21 Jun 1653. My Lady Gerrard, and one Esquire Knight, a very rich gentleman, living in Northamptonshire, visited me.

Evelyn's Diary. 28 Oct 1653. Went to London, to visit my Lady Gerrard, where I saw that cursed woman called the Lady Norton, of whom it was reported that she spit in our King's face as he went to the scaffold. Indeed, her talk and discourse was like an impudent woman.

Evelyn's Diary. 10 May 1654. My Lady Gerrard treated us at Mulberry Garden [Map], now the only place of refreshment about the town for persons of the best quality to be exceedingly cheated at; Cromwell and his partisans having shut up and seized on Spring Garden, which, till now, had been the usual rendezvous for the ladies and gallants at this season.

Around 1657 Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard died.

[her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond were married. She by marriage Countess Thomond. He the son of Donogh O'Brien 4th Earl Thomond and Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Thomond.

[her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond succeeded 5th Earl Thomond.

[her daughter] Elizabeth Gerard was born to Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard.

Ancestors of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657

Great x 3 Grandfather: Connor O'Brien King of Thomond

Great x 2 Grandfather: Donough O'Brien 2nd Earl of Thomond

Great x 1 Grandfather: Connor O'Brien 3rd Earl of Thomond 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Butler 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Piers "Red" Butler 8th Earl Ormonde 1st Earl Ossory 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sabh Macmurrough Kavanagh

Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Butler 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 8th Earl of Kildare

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzeustace Countess Kildare

GrandFather: Donogh O'Brien 4th Earl Thomond 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Father: Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzgerald 7th Earl of Kildare

Great x 3 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 8th Earl of Kildare

Great x 2 Grandfather: Gerald Fitzgerald 9th Earl of Kildare

Great x 4 Grandfather: Rowland Fitzeustace 1st Baron Portlester

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Fitzeustace Countess Kildare

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gerald "Wizard Earl" Fitzgerald 11th Earl of Kildare 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grey 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Woodville Queen Consort England 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Countess Kildare 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bonville 6th Baron Harington 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Baroness Bonville and Hastings 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

GrandMother: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Thomond 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Browne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mabel Browne Countess Kildare 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Gage

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Gage

Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Gage

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Guildford

Great x 3 Grandmother: Philippa Guildford

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ann Pympe

Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Brereton

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brereton

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Brereton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Savage 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Savage 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Vernon

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Brereton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

GrandFather: William Brereton 1st Baron Brereton 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Warburton

Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Warburton of Arley

Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Warburton

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Winnington

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Winnington

Great x 4 Grandfather: Randall Grosvenor

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Anne Grosvenor

Mother: Mary Brereton Countess Thomond 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England

Royal Ancestors of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657

Ancestors of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657