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Mabel Digby | |
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| Lady of Dromana and Decies | |
| Born | Sometime after 1598 Coleshill, Warwickshire, England |
| Died | Unknown Dromana, County Waterford, Ireland |
| Noble family | FitzGerald |
| Spouse(s) | Sir Gerald FitzGerald, Lord of Dromana and Decies Donagh O'Brien |
| Issue | Sir John FitzGerald, Lord of Dromana and Decies Lettice FitzGerald Unnamed daughter |
| Father | Sir Robert Digby |
| Mother | Lettice FitzGerald |
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. She was the wife of Sir Gerald FitzGerald, Lord of Dromana and Decies. In 1642, during an Irish rebellion, she was openly sympathetic to the Irish and entertained them at Dromana Castle. She later handed the castle over to them.[1]
- ^ Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Villiers-Stuart papers, p.6, retrieved 22-12-09