James FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond

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James FitzGerald
Earl of Desmond
Tenure	1600–1601
Predecessor	–
Successor	–
Born	c.1570
Died	November 1601
Parents	Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond Eleanor Butler

James FitzGerald (c. 1570 – November 1601), an Irish nobleman, was the successor of Gerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond. He assumed the title of Earl of Desmond, which had been suppressed in 1582 after the Desmond Rebellions. He spent much of his life in captivity, and was temporarily, but unsuccessfully, restored to the earldom in 1600–01 by the English in an attempt to pacify Munster during the Nine Years War. He thus became the 1st Earl of Desmond, but soon returned to England, where he died in obscurity.