Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare (1525 – 16 November 1585), also known as the "Wizard Earl" (a sobriquet also given to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland), was an Irish peer. He was the son of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and his second wife Elizabeth Grey, Countess of Kildare. FitzGerald became the sole male representative of the Kildare Geraldines at the age of twelve, after his half-brother, Silken Thomas, the tenth earl, was executed at Tyburn in 1537 with five of his uncles. He spent the next few years on the
Earl of Rothes She was wife of the Hon. George Waldegrave, younger son of William Waldegrave, 8th Earl Waldegrave. The courtesy title used by an heir apparent to the earldom is "Lord Leslie". The family seat is Littlecroft, near West Milton, Dorset. The heir presumptive is the present holder's only brother, Hon. Alexander John Leslie (b. 1962). Earl of Rothes Earl of Rothes (pronounced ""Roth"-is") is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1458 for George Leslie, 1st Lord Leslie. He had already been created Lord Leslie in 1445, also in the Peerage of Scotland. His grandson, the third