Elizabeth Nugent (died 1645) was an Irish noblewoman from an Old English family, and a major patron of the Jesuit order in Ireland.
In 1616, he proposed that she should receive a third of the FitzGerald estate; in 1620 this was granted, subject to claims from Lettice Digby and her husband.
The match fell through after interference from Charles I, who was concerned about the prospect of FitzGerald marrying into a Catholic family.
[1] In 1627, she financed the building of a Jesuit novitiate on land she leased from Christ Church Cathedral.
[1][3] The novitiate was forced to shut down soon after, due to political strife, but in 1637 Nugent again offered funding to re-establish it.