Geraldines

From a world fraught with the menace of débutantes and the stupidity of many Geraldines he was thankfully delivered — rather should he emulate the feline immobility of Maury and wear proudly the culminative wisdom of the numbered generations.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Hot members they were all of them, the Geraldines.

Ulysses 2003

Nevir sithence did the Gerraldines of Mounster, the Butlers, ne Geraldines of

Catastrophic Dimensions:The Rupture of English and Irish Identities in Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1615 1999

Desmond was still detained in England, but the Geraldines in Munster had not been crushed either by Sidney or by Gilbert.

England under the Tudors

And in the south, the Butlers and Geraldines carried out that policy with devastatory results.

England under the Tudors

The great house of the Butlers, alone among the families of the conquerors, rivalled the Geraldines, their neighbours, kinsfolk and mortal foes.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

From the early years of the 14th century the Ormonde earls, generation by generation, were called to the chief government of Ireland as lords-keeper, lords-lieutenant, deputies or lords-justices, and unlike their hereditary enemies the Geraldines they kept a tradition of loyalty to the English crown and to English custom.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Ormonde however served as a permanent check on the Geraldines, while the young Kildare had neither the inclination nor the opportunity to head rebellions: and the great septs were far too ready to turn on each other for any effective combination.

England under the Tudors

One feature of this curious Act is that the Geraldines have got rid of the last of their property, and escaped all the forfeitures.

The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey

The most powerful of the nobles at this time were the Geraldines, at whose head were the Earls of

England under the Tudors