Henry FitzGerald, 12th Earl of Kildare (1562 – 30 September 1597) was an Irish peer and soldier.
[1] His eldest brother died in 1580, and Henry inherited the earldom in 1585.
[citation needed] Nicknamed Henry "na Tuagh", or Henry "of the Battleaxes", he fought against the Spanish invaders in Ireland in 1588.
In 1597, he helped quell the Earl of Tyrone's uprising in Ulster, where he was mortally wounded.
[2] Kildare married Frances, daughter of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham and Katherine Carey, in 1589.