'Far-famed was he in feats of arms; in nine battles did he win the palm of victory... Another subject for congratulation had this Earl — the two Lords of Muskerry fell beneath his sword.

Eventually embarrassments attendant on the question of the succession obliged him to make every profession of loyalty to the King.

"[2] Connections with Spain were particularly strong, and in April 1529 The 11th Earl of Desmond and Don Gonzalez Fernandez, the ambassador of Emperor Charles V signed the Treaty of Dingle, which established the rights and privileges of Irish emigrants and exiles in Habsburg territories.

Her principal residence is at Inchiquin, in Munster, whither she undauntedlye proposeth (her Purpose accomplished) incontinentlie to return.

The Old Countess is said to have died at the age of 140 when she fell out of a cherry tree in the garden of her castle at Inchiquin while harvesting the fruit, though this appears unlikely.