Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-10-27
The KNIGHT Of Gin is dead.

Justice Of the peace for County LINER
lex. Unlike the dashing, dueling
hard-riding, and, in many cases, hard
drinking squircs who preceded him IN
the title-one OF whom is supposed to
have afforded Lever the leading or IL
tie character for his knight CT
Gwynne"-the late knight led the lie
OF a quiet country gentleman. He mar
ried. In 1861, Isabella, daughter or Rev
Ilovd Apiohn. of Linfield, County Linn
erick. and by her leaves four children
the eldest OF whom, Desmond + ltz-JoIH
FITZGERALD now succeeds TO the JlIle'
A brother Of the deceased knight is no"
living with his family in Chicago; eX-
cluded bv law of entail from any snare
in the ancient family estates, ne Is
manfully earning his bread in the sweat
of his brow. Just like any ordinary man
who has no pedigree stretching away
bacl, to the DAYS Of William the Con-
Queror cor ,,15r1p
WHERE TIE KNIGHTS GO1 1hElI'
TITLE.
Clin. from which these modern
l,nirhts take their title, is little town
noar he mouth of the shannon, III tle
County Limerick. So the place Is wei
known TO numerous Chicago loiA' anu
some well known citizens nave COnIe
from there or thereabouts, notaDly ne ne, .
Thomas Pope Hodnett, pastor Oh -
lIalachy's Church, and OinceIs JONI
ColliDs. who arrested Martin BurA at
Wiunineg. Gliu is not many mics
west OF sweet Adare," the magnificent
cot ~ that cnterprising Irish sports
man Ouin. Earl Of Dunraven, ana own
er of the Valkyrie, and is IN the lilill0-
dio+e uaiohbOrhOOd Of the tragic apO0
,,bero The brute Seaman and his mend
ieb colleague drowned the poor ColleeH
T D. and gave Griffin the foundation
NJ his novel and Boucicault the plo1 o.
his play. IN front OF Gin casCc' . ~
seat of the knight. spreads ouC .le
broad estuary of the shannon WIZ ~
blne hills Of Clare looming III lho us
lance. It is a picturesque place, ~. ~ IL
m Quaint legend and batned III inc VIZ
let light of romance. ooo,,,,+ of
on. Dunraven's name, on account Vi
Tho recent yacht race, is now q nous
Ma -.ord The world over; but his l&ul-
ii,- end title are rs Of YESTERDAY VIZ" VIZ.
' 80 with those Of his heieiA.0i'
the <niCht OF Gin. ,.,.o5od
when the Anglo-NormanS III 80
1ra1ond In the twelfth century anus li',it5
tla most valient and powerful Oh -! -
VIC NJ 10 Titzgeralds or Geradlhes.
W., ~ so,-i1,- was supposed to have come
.r;oiroIlv from Italy. Some acco'ii0'
VI 80 fbom rs the descendants on me
SURVIVING Trojan hero. Aneas' Wlo nee 80
from Troy to Italy, and conheelioII-S3 VI
he cberardini Of Florence. UeI"lu VI
windsor VINO obtained WINDSOR oas'i5 l
FROM william the COnqueror III Ic" uI "
fo r'' ee,,vices i'm the battle OF hastings
~. the beautiful but infamous
- If Wales. who had been prev
o,,slv mistress of Henry l. FROM IAelI
o,',,'' Maurice. the first to carry the Ge,
Hive banner into Ireland, the ITI5u
EitzooraIds are descended. -,,,.,
AVIS TRIBUTE TO The GhN-Al--
"a DIMES.
nrolifc and entc-pr.sing race lhe
1,,.zge~qlds spread themselves over
NOS of the fairest land CT Mul5 I.ii
Thsir castles br.s.led upon every n.ll'
+5eic Tag was foremcs, in every nshl.
Thomas Davis, the Irish poe,' says OF
them.
We Geraldines! We Geraldines.-hoW
royalty We reisned --.,,
O,or Do-nond broad. and rich kildare
and English art disd2ned;
your sword made knights, your banner
waved. free was your bugle call
p,, clin,s green slopes and Dinsle's tide,
from Barrow's banks to fouSnai'
What gorgeous ghrines, what Drehoh
lore. what minstrel feas-s SneTe
were
In and around MaynoCth's grey keep
and palace filed Adare.
plt NOT for rite or feast We stayed, wheN
friend or kin were pressed;
And foemen fed when "Crom aboo' be-
spoke your lance n rest.
Tobn Fitz-Thomas Fitzgerald received
from King Henry H. grant OF the
lands of Gin; tina. is, the English KING
cave hfn his gracious permission 10
t9ke and hold those lands, provided ne
corld subdue by force of arms the ma
live Irish owners. which he succeeded
IN doing. He chen built on the banks
of shannon the fortaliCe known TO the
Tr.sb as "Clcchgleanna," or stone castle
Of Inc glen. or "glin," the English and
irish words being equivalent. me
Farls of Desmond. descended from the
aboye-men.ioned Fitzgerald were, by
Succeeding English Kings, created
princes palat;ne in Ireland, WIN the
mower of making tenures in capire and
creating barons Accordingly, they ere
ated one member of their family Knight
of Gin. another the knight Of Kerry,
another the White Knight, and so on:
The titles .hus conferred by the Gerald
inc some eight centuries ago are still
recognized. The Knights Of Gin and
some Of their peers. whose titles were
conferred by Geraldine, accolade. have
bad those same titles observed and re-
famed in acts Of Parliament, patents IN
der the great seal, and other legal dec
unents. down to the present time.
THE FIRST KNIGHT OF GLIN.
Sir John Fitz-JOhn Fitzgerald, 20
whom his father gave the castles of
Glvncorbury and Beagh, County Linn
erick. was the first knight Of Gin.
Glin,s relative, the Knight Of Kerry.
led his armed bands into that territory
VIII the ancestors of Justice Prindi-
Vile in his train, and subdued the an
cessors Of Alderman Maurice O'Connor.
and Of several other Kerrymen of note
in Chicago. In the south their relative
Gerald.nes made Roadway against the