Lettice Digby, 1st Baroness Offaly
Lettice FitzGerald, 1st Baroness Offaly (c.1580 – 1 December 1658) was an Irish noblewoman and a member of the FitzGerald dynasty.
Although she became heiress-general to the Earls of Kildare on the death of her father, the title instead went to the next FitzGerald male heir when her grandfather, the 11th Earl of Kildare, died in 1585.
In 1620 she was created "suo jure" Baroness Offaly by King James I of England.
She was the wife of Sir Robert Digby, a landed English aristocrat by whom she had ten children.
They were a notoriously litigious couple, who spent many years asserting their rights before numerous courts, and were quite prepared to accuse even their closest relatives of wrongdoing.
In early 1642, at the age of about sixty-two, her castle of Geashill was besieged by a force of insurgents from the O'Dempsey clan; she managed to hold out against them until October 1642.
Her defence has been described as having been the "most spirited episode in the history of the Irish Rebellion of 1641".
Robert Digby (courtier)
Sir Robert Digby PC(I)
(1574 – 24 May 1618) was an English courtier who owned an estate at Coleshill, Warwickshire.
His marriage to Lettice FitzGerald, heir-general to the 11th Earl of Kildare, led him to spend his life litigating over her claims to the Kildare lands.
He divided his time between local business in Warwickshire and in Ireland.
Digby was the eldest son of George Digby of Coleshill and his wife Abigail, daughter of Sir Anthony Heveningham.
Robert was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he took a BA, and then as a barrister at the Middle Temple, which he entered in 1595.
He received his MA from Magdalen in 1598.
Around this time, he married Lettice FitzGerald, the daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, Lord Offaly.
They had seven sons and three daughters:
Lettice's father had died in 1580, around the time of her birth, and her grandfather the Earl of Kildare had died in 1585, leaving all of his property to his heirs male.
She and her husband became increasingly convinced that her grandmother Mabel, the earl's wife, had forged the will in the interest of her sons, Lettice's uncles.
After Lettice's last surviving uncle William FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Kildare was lost at sea in April 1599, she assumed the title of "Lady Offaly" and laid claim to that barony and some of the Kildare estates.
Meanwhile, Robert was knighted in Dublin on 4 August 1599 by the Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his wife's first cousin.
Digby divided his energies between affairs in Ireland, where his litigation against the 14th Earl of Kildare for Lettice's claims became extremely involved, and in Warwickshire, where he was appointed a justice of the peace for Warwickshire in 1601.
His family's long-standing connection with the locally influential Knollys family, reinforced by his marriage to Lettice (whose mother was a Knollys), probably helped secure his return as Member of Parliament for Warwickshire in the same year.
He was named an esquire of the body to Queen Elizabeth before her death in 1603.
During the reign of James I, Digby assisted Sir Richard Verney, then High Sheriff of Warwickshire, in apprehending some of those involved in the Gunpowder Plot in November 1605.
Litigation in Ireland over the Kildare estates continued; King James offered to hear the suit in person in 1610, but Lord Kildare declined on the grounds that he could not afford to plead before the English courts.
Kildare died in 1612, and Digby had been appointed to the Privy Council of Ireland by 1613, when he sat as MP for Athy but the issue was still unresolved when he died on 24 May 1618.
The expenses of litigation had impaired his estate, and he was forced in his will to ask her to provide settlements for their children from the revenues of her Irish lands and a sum of money held by his brother.
A settlement was finally achieved in July 1620: Lettice was created Baroness Offaly for life, with remainder to her grandfather's heirs male, and received the manor of Geashill, with 30,000 acres of land, for herself and her children.
Her eldest son Robert was simultaneously created Baron Digby, of Geashill.
Mary Abercromby, 1st Baroness Abercromby
Mary Anne Abercromby, 1st Baroness Abercromby ("née" Menzies, born before 1752 – 11 February 1821) was a Scottish socialite and suo jure peeress.
Essex Digby
Essex Digby, DD was an English Anglican priest in Ireland in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Digby came from an eminent family.
He was the son of Sir Robert Digby of Coleshill, Warwickshire and Lettice FitzGerald, of Geashill, Ireland, granddaughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 11th Earl of Kildare.
John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol, was his uncle, Robert Digby, 1st Baron Digby, his brother and Simon Digby his son.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin.
Dean of Cashel from 1661 until 1671 and Bishop of Dromore from his consecration on 27 February 1671 until his death on 12 May 1683.
Agnes Macdonald, 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe
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John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol
John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol( February 1580 – 21 January 1653), was an English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War.
Mary Grey, Countess of Kent
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Maria Helena de Albuquerque, 1st Baroness of Oliveira Lima
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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.
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.
Elizabeth Sackville-West, Countess De La Warr
Elizabeth Sackville- West, Countess De La Warr and 1st Baroness Buckhurst( 11 August 1795 – 9 January 1870), was a British peeress.

Question: Where did Lettice Digby, 1St Baroness Offaly's husband graduate from?
Answer: Magdalen College