Skip to content
Curated category

People of Elizabethan Ireland

  • Lady Joan FitzgeraldJoan Fitzgerald was born in 1514 within the rolling hills of Munster, Ireland. She stood alone as the only daughter and heiress to James fitz Maurice…
  • Edmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was born in East Smithfield, London, around the year 1552. His parentage remains obscure to modern historians, though evidence suggests he was…
  • Walter RaleighSir Walter Raleigh was born on the 22nd of January 1552 in East Budleigh, Devon. His father held Fardel Manor while his mother Katherine Champernowne owned…
  • Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of SouthamptonHenry Wriothesley entered the world on the 6th of October 1573 at Cowdray House in Sussex. He was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton…
  • Humphrey GilbertSir Humphrey Gilbert entered the world around 1539 as the fifth son of Otho Gilbert, a man who held estates at Compton, Greenway, and Galmpton in Devon.