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unusual facts about Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly


Mabel Digby

Mabel Digby, Lady of Dromana and Decies (dates of birth and death unknown) was an Anglo-Irish noblewoman being the eldest daughter of Sir Robert Digby and Lettice FitzGerald, 1st Baroness Offaly.


Geashill

In 1598, Lettice Fitzgerald, daughter and heir of Gerald, the Lord Offaly of the time, married a Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire, who was brother of the 1st Earl of Bristol and whose son was created Ist Baron Digby of Geashill in 1620.

Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly

She was the wife of Sir Robert Digby, a landed English aristocrat by whom she had ten children.

On the same day of her investure as Baroness Offaly, her eldest son, Robert was made Baron Digby.


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