Notable Participants
Invasion/Rebellion side – the Irish and their Catholic supporters
- James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, cousin of the Earl of Desmond, organiser of the rebellions
- Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond
- Pope Gregory XIII, provided funds and forces
- Captain Thomas Stukley, English adventurer, leader of first proposed invasion force
- Giacomo Boncompagni, the illegitimate son of Pope Gregory proposed as King of Ireland
- William Allen English priest in Rome who supported the rebellion
- Nicholas Sanders, English priest and Papal legate on the invasion force
- Hercules of Pisano, military member of the first attempted invasion
- Sebastiano di San Giuseppe of Bologna, commander of the invasion garrison at Dún an Óir
- Philip II of Spain, provided forces
- King Sebastian of Portugal, diverted Thomas Stuckly and the first force to Morocco, where both were killed
- Matthew de Oviedo, accompanied Fitzmaurice on the second invasion force
- Earl of Kildare, Geraldine leader, requested to join the rebellion
- John of Desmond, a brother of the Earl of Desmond, succeeded as leader of the rebellion
- James Fitzedmund FitzGerald, Seneschal of Imokilly, succeeded as leader of the rebellion
- Captain Julian, Italian engineer who attempted to reconstruct Carrigafoyle Castle
- Juan Martinez de Recalde, Spanish member of the invasion force who returned later in the Spanish Armada
- Fiach MacHugh O'Byrne, Irish chieftain who rebelled in Leinster, Battle of Glenmalure
- James Eustace, 3rd Viscount Baltinglass of the Pale who joined the rebellion in Leinster, Battle of Glenmalure
- Creon MacMurrough Kavanagh, appointed King of Leinster by the rebellion
English crown side
- Elizabeth I of England
- Sir Henry Sidney, the former Lord Deputy of Ireland member of the Privy council
- Theobald Burke, cousin of James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald, whose forces killed him
- Sir William Winter, English naval commander
- Sir William Pelham, English army commander
- Sir George Carew, English army commander
- Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton, Lord Deputy of Ireland, army commander
- William Stanley, army commander
- Richard Bingham, member of the English army
- Sir Walter Raleigh, member of the English army
- Edmund Spenser, member of the English army
- Thomas Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde, supporter of the English forces
- Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, supporter of the English forces
- Owen MacCarthy Reagh, 12th Prince of Carbery, supporter of the English forces
- Maurice and the O'Moriarty clan, capture of the Earl of Desmond
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