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Biography of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard -1657

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Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard was born to [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond.

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

After 18th 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 24th June 1627 [her brother-in-law] Charles Cockayne 1st Viscount Cullen (age 24) and [her sister] Mary O'Brien Viscountess Cullen (age 18) were married at Church of St Gile's in the Fields. She the daughter of [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 39) and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 47). He the son of William Cockayne and Mary Morris Countess Dover (age 62).

On 21st August 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).

In 1639 [her brother-in-law] Edward Somerset 2nd Marquess Worcester (age 36) and [her sister] Margaret O'Brien Marchioness of Worcester were married. She by marriage Marchioness Worcester. She the daughter of [her father] Henry O'Brien 5th Earl Thomond (age 51) and [her mother] Mary Brereton Countess Thomond (age 59). He the son of Henry Somerset 1st Marquess Worcester (age 62) and Anne Russell Countess Worcester (age 61). They were fourth cousins.

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

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

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

On 11th August 1642 [her brother-in-law] Charles Cockayne 1st Viscount Cullen (age 40) was created 1st Viscount Cullen. [her sister] Mary O'Brien Viscountess Cullen (age 33) by marriage Viscountess Cullen.

John Evelyn's Diary. 19th March 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.

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

John Evelyn's Diary. 28th October 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.

John Evelyn's Diary. 10th 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 daughter] Elizabeth Gerard was born to Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard and Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard. She married before 1687 her fourth cousin William Spencer, son of William Spencer 2nd Baron Spencer and Penelope Wriothesley Baroness Spencer Wormleighton.

Royal Ancestors of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard

Kings Wessex: Great x 17 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings Godwinson: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of King Harold II of England

Kings England: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 16 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 21 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Elisabeth O'Brien Baroness Gerard

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: James Butler 5 x Great Grand Son of

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

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sabh Macmurrough Kavanagh

Great x 2 Grandmother: Helen Butler 7 x Great Grand Daughter of

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

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

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Grey 5 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Grey 1st Marquess Dorset 6 x Great Grand Son of

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

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Grey Countess Kildare 4 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bonville 6th Baron Harington 6 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandmother: Cecily Bonville Marchioness Dorset 3 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Neville Baroness Bonville and Hastings 2 x Great Grand Daughter of

GrandMother: Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Thomond 6 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Browne

Great x 3 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 2 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 4 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mabel Browne Countess Kildare 5 x Great Grand Daughter of

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

Great x 4 Grandfather: Andrew Brereton

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Brereton

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Brereton 7 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Savage 5 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Savage 6 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dorothy Vernon

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Brereton 8 x Great Grand Son of

GrandFather: William Brereton 1st Baron Brereton 9 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Warburton

Great x 2 Grandfather: Peter Warburton of Arley

Great x 1 Grandmother: Jane Warburton 14 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Winnington 11 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Winnington 12 x Great Grand Son of

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Winnington 13 x Great Grand Daughter of

Great x 4 Grandfather: Randall Grosvenor

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Anne Grosvenor

Mother: Mary Brereton Countess Thomond 10 x Great Grand Daughter of