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 1305 - 1338 (~ 33 years)
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James Butler |
| Title |
Sir |
| Suffix |
1st Earl of Ormond |
| Birth |
~ 1305 |
Arlow, County Wicklow, Ireland  [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Chief Butler of Ireland [1] |
| Death |
6 Jan 1338 |
Gowran Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland [1, 2, 3, 4] |
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| Burial |
St. Mary's Collegiate Church Gowran, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland [1] |
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| Person ID |
I44762 |
The Hennessee Family |
| Last Modified |
11 Sep 2016 |
| Father |
Sir Edmund Butler, Knight, Earl of Carrick, b. 1268, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland d. 13 Sep 1321, London, Middlesex, England (Age 53 years) |
| Mother |
Lady Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Carrick, b. ~ 1282, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland d. 2 May 1320, Laraghbryan, County Kildare, Ireland (Age ~ 38 years) |
| Marriage |
1302 [4, 5, 6] |
| Family ID |
F16844 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Lady Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde, b. 17 Oct 1304, Knaresborough Castle, North Yorkshire, England d. 7 Oct 1363 (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage |
1327 [1, 7] |
| Children |
| | 1. Sir James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, b. 4 Oct 1331, (Arlow, County Wicklow, Ireland) d. 18 Oct 1382, Knocktopher, Ireland (Age 51 years) |
| | 2. Petronella Butler, b. 1332, Ormonde, Kerry, Munster, Ireland d. 23 Apr 1368 (Age 36 years) |
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| Family ID |
F16297 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
30 Apr 2023 |
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| Photos |
 | Sir James Butler
a descendant of Edward I and 21st great grandfather of the grandchildren of Ma Byars... |
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| Notes |
- Father: Sir Edmund Butler of Gowran (1268-1321)
Mother: Joan Fitzgerald, Lady Butler of Gowran (~1282-1320)
Birth: 18 Mar 1305 Ireland
“28 Feb. 1327, Westminster…Order to deliver to James le Botiller, son and heir of Edmund le Botiler of Ireland, the issues of his father’s lands from 2 December, in the 19th year of the late king’s reign, when the said king took his homage for his father’s land, and rendered the same to him…that although he entered the lands in Ireland that are of his inheritance by pretext of the said order, the issues thereof from the said 2 December until 18 March following are detained from him” [CCR 1327-1330]; “25 Oct. 1327, Nottingham…as well of the inheritance of James le Botiller, lately a minor, as of others” [CPR 1327-1330]; “He was ‘lately a minor,’ 25 Oct. 1327. Possibly he came of age 18 Mar. 1325/6, to which date the issues of his lands were retained by the King’s officers.”1
Baptism:
“James’s name may reflect his father’s devotion to Santiago de Compostela, for in 1320 Edmund, his wife, and son were released from a vow to visit the shrine of St James.”2
Death: 16 Feb 1338 Gowran Castle, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
“1337…Item, eodem anno, obiit apud Baligaveran, dominus Jacobus le Botiller, primus comes Hermonie; vir liberalis et amicabilis, facetus et decorus, in flore juventutis flos emarcuit xii. Kal: Marcii, die Martis in sero” [Annalium Hiberniae Chronicon];3 “The account of James le Botiller, lately Earl of Ormond, father of James, now Earl, for the issues of the King’s prise of wines in Ireland from the feast of St. Hilary 8 Edward III…to February 16, 12 Edward III, on which day the said Earl died…August, 1364.”4 Friar Clyn stated the Earl died on 18 February, but the writs following his death were issued on that day, and instead 16 February, as reported by his son the second Earl in 1364, would seem to be the accurate date of death.
Burial: St Mary Collegiate Church, Gowran, co. Kilkenny, Ireland
“And was bur. at Gowran, the chief seat of the family before the purchase of Kilkenny Castle. His father had founded a chantry there (Journal, R. Soc. Antiq. [I.], vol. xl, p. 344; O.D., vol. i, no. 470).”1
Occupation: 1st Earl of Ormond 1328-1338
Spouse:
Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond
Marriage: 21 Nov 1328
Date is of marriage pardon: “21 Nov. 1328, Westminster. Pardon and acquittance to James le Botiller, earl of Ormound, the king’s kinsman, who married Eleanor de Bohoun, the king’s kinswoman, with his consent, of the arrears of the fine of 2,000 marks, made by him with the late king for the marriage” [CPR 1327-1330]; “Having, in 1327, married Eleanor, fecond daughter of Humphrey Bohun, the fourth Earl of Hereford and Effex.”5 Lodge, whom CP follows, provides no source for his marriage date of 1327, and the Patent Rolls show Eleanor was unmarried as late as February 1328. The marriage likely took place in the autumn of that year, close to the time James was created Earl of Ormond.
Children:
John Butler (1330-by 1332)
James Butler (1331-1382)
Pernel Butler (~1335-1368)
Sources
1. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant – New Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged, George Edward Cokayne et al (eds.), St. Catherine Press Limited (London: 1910-1959), 13 vols.
2. Robin Frame, “Butler, James, first earl of Ormond (c.1305–1338),” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004.
3. The Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn, Together with the Annals of Ross, Very Rev. Richard Butler (ed.), Irish Archaeological Society (Dublin: 1849).
4. Calendar of Ormond Deeds: Volume III, 1413-1509 A.D., Edmund Curtis (ed.), Irish Manuscripts Commission (Dublin: 1935).
5. John Lodge, The Peerage of Ireland: or, a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom: Revised, Enlarged and Continued to the Present Time, Mervyn Archdall (ed.), James Moore (Dublin: 1789), 7 vols.
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- James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (c. 1305 – 6 January 1338. James is buried in St. Mary's Collegiate Church Gowran, Gowran, Co. Kilkenny), was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland.
Ancestry
He was the son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, Justiciar of Ireland, (1268- 13 September 1321) and Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick. His paternal grandparents were Theobald le Botiller (1242–1285), (son of Theobald le Botiller and Margery de Burgh), and Joan FitzJohn (FitzGeffrey) (died 4 April 1303), daughter of John FitzGeoffrey, Lord of Shere,[1] Justiciar of Ireland, and Isabel Bigod. His maternal grandfather was John FitzThomas FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Kildare.
Titles
Upon his father's death in 1321, the only hereditary title that James held was that of Chief Butler Of Ireland. As the 7th Chief Butler, he inherited the title from his ancestor Theobald Fitzwalter whose successors adopted the surname Butler.[2] A gap of 7 years was to follow before James was rewarded for his loyalty to the Crown with an earldom in his own right. His benefactor, King Edward III created him the first Earl of Ormond by patent, bearing date 2 November 1328 at Salisbury, the King then holding a Parliament there, with the creation fee of ¹10 a year.[3] Seven days afterwards, by patent dated at Wallingford, in consideration of his services, and the better to enable him to support the honour, the King gave to him the regalities, liberties, knights fees, and other royal privileges of the county of Tipperary, and the rights of a palatine in that county for life.
At the same time, the king created Roger Mortimer as the 1st Earl of March.[4]
In 1336 he founded the friary of Carrick-Begg (a townland on the River Suir opposite Carrick-on-Suir) for Franciscan Friars. On 3 June of that year, he gave the friars his castle and estate of Carrick, of which they took possession on Sunday the feast of SS. Peter and Paul.
Marriage and issue
In 1327, he married Eleanor de Bohun, daughter of The 4th Earl of Hereford and The Lady Elizabeth, herself a daughter of King Edward I of England, and they had two daughters and two sons:
John Butler (born at Ardee on St. Leonard's day (6 November) 1330, died an infant)
Petronella Butler (d. 23 April 1368), married Gilbert Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot, son of Richard Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot and Elizabeth Comyn, and had issue.
Alianore Butler (died 1392), married after 20 July 1359, Gerald FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond, son of Maurice FitzThomas, Earl of Desmond and Aveline FitzMorice, and had issue.
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 Oct 1331 – 18 Oct 1382), married Elizabeth Darcy daughter of Sir John Darcy, Lord Justice of Ireland, and Joan de Burgh, and had issue. James was born at Kilkenny and given in ward, 1 September 1344, to Maurice, Earl of Desmond, for the fine of 2306 marcs; and afterward to Sir John Darcy who married him to his daughter Elizabeth. He was usually called the noble Earl, on account of his descent from the Royal Family.[5]
James' successors held the title Earl of Ormond, later merged with the higher title of Duke of Ormonde and held palatine rights in County Tipperary[4] until the County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715.
See also
Barony of Iffa and Offa East
Butler dynasty
References
Jump up ^ H.E. Malden (editor) (1911). "Parishes: Shere". A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 7 November 2013.
Jump up ^ http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Butlers+of+Ormond
Jump up ^ Lodge, John The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, 1789, Vol IV, p 7.
^ Jump up to: a b Mountmorres of Castlemorres, Hervey Redmond Morres; Robert Southwell (1792). The History of the Principal Transactions of the Irish Parliament, from ... 1634 to 1666: Containing Proceedings of the Lords and Commons During the Administration of the Earl of Strafford, and of the First Duke of Ormond. New York Public Library: T. Cadell. p. 194.
Jump up ^ Lodge, John The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, 1789, Vol IV, p 8.
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- History of The Butler Dynasty from Wikipedia ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_dynasty
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- James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond. Knight of the Garter, Knight of Knocktopher, Kilkeney, Nenah and Thurles, Tipperary, Aylesbury, Grewt Lindford and Rotherfield Peppard, Buckinghamshire. Of Sopley, Hampshire, of LaVacherie and Shere, Surrey, of Weeton, Lancashire. Hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland, Lieutenant of Ireland.
Son and heir of Sir Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, Justiciar of Ireland and Joan FitzThomas.
First husband of Eleanor de Bohun, 2nd surviving daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Elizabeth of England. They had two sons and one daughter: John, James, Pernel.
He was only three when he served as a hostage for his father, held in Dublin Castle in 1317. His father's will was dated 1321, and death the same year, listed James, who would be the 7th Chief Butler of Ireland, from long line of ancestors named FitzWalter, adopting the surname of Butler. He received protection (permission) to cross to Ireland in 1326. In 1327, Eleanor was offered to James with an arrangement of the castle and manor of Kilpeck, Herefordshire for life.
King Edward III created him the first Earl of Ormond by patent, bearing date 2 November 1328 at Salisbury with the creation fee of ¹10 a year. At the same time, the king created Roger Mortimer as the 1st Earl of March.
In 1336 he founded the friary of Carrick-Begg for Franciscan Friars. On 3 June of that year, he gave the friars his castle and estate of Carrick, of which they took possession on Sunday the feast of SS. Peter and Paul.
James died 06 Jan 1338 and was buried at Gowran. His widow would remarry to Sir Thomas de Dagworth.
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| Sources |
- [S8648] "James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (~1305-1338)" biography, abstracted November 29, 2015 by David A. Hennessee, https://e.
- [S6642] "Sir James Butler" biography, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=butler&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1338&GSdyrel.
- [S8649] "Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde" biography, abstracted November 29, 2015 by David A. Hennessee, https://en.wikipe.
- [S6648] "James Butler, 1st Earl Of Ormond" biography, http://www.royaldescent.net/james-butler-1st-earl-of-ormond/, accessed Sep.
- [S10105] "Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick" biography, accessed & downloaded Tuesday, December 6th, 2016 by David A. Hennessee, htt.
- [S10584] "Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick" biography, which was abstracted, downloaded and published Sunday, March 5th, 2017.
- [S10405] "James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (~1305-1338)" biography, abstracted November 29, 2015 by David A. Hennessee, info@clas.
- [S8653] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_dynasty.
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