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Tango01  | 27 Jun 2025 5:44 p.m. PST |
"Following his time spent in England after accusations of his maladministration Gerald FitzGerald, the 9th Earl of Kildare, was allowed to return to his Irish homeland in January 1523. The Earl of Surrey had acted as Lord Deputy during Kildare's absence and on his return he was keen to assert his authority once again despite the fact Piers Butler, the 8th Earl of Ormond had since been appointed Lord Deputy. In May of 1523 in support of his O'Neill allies, who had been at war with the O'Donnell, Kildare led an army into eastern Ulster in a raid against O'Donnell's ally, Aodh Buidhe (Hugh) O'Neill of Clandeboy. In a letter to Henry VIII of 24 May 1523 Kildare describes how the Clandeboy O'Neill had employed 1,500 Scots mercenaries. During the campaign Kildare destroyed Clandeboy's castle in Belfast along with two other tower houses belonging to the MacDonalds of the Glens (soon to become famous as the MacDonnell's under the leadership of Sorley Boy), the source of the Scots mercenaries. He also took the mayor and some of the aldermen of Carrickfergus prisoner as they had been trading with Bretons and Scots…" link link Camisado
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