James Butler , 1st Earl of Ormond 
James was born about 1305 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland. James' father was Edmund le Botiller , 6th Butler, Ear of Carrick and his mother was Joan FitzGerald. His paternal grandparents were Theobald le Botiller , 4th Butler and Joan FitzJohn; his maternal grandparents were John FitzGerald , 1st Earl of Kildare and Blanche de la Roche. He was an only child. He died in Moyalvi, Tipperary, Ireland. He was buried in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland.General Notes
James Butler, Earl of Ormund, b. c 1305, d. Jan or Feb 1337/8, son of Edmund Butler, d. London, 13 Sep 1321, son of Theobald le Boteler and Joan Fitz John, daughter of Sir John Fitz Geoffrey and Isabel Bigod. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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Edmund was succeeded as 7th Butler by his teenage son, James, a liberal, pleasant and stately youth. As soon as James was 21 he was knighted. A year later he married the king's niece, Eleanor de Bohun, and, in the following year, October, 1328, he was created Earl of Ormond. As in the case of his father's "earldom" of Carrick, the creation charter is missing; but the earldom of Ormond was probably limited to the heirs-male, despite, the weighty opinion to the contrary of J. H. Round. The question did not arise until the death of the 7th Earl in 1515; but it may well arise again when the Ormonde Marquessate becomes extinct. [Note: the last Marquess of Ormond died in Chicago in 2001.]
A few weeks after he was created Earl of Ormond, James was granted, by Edward III, the regalities and liberties of Co. Tipperary. Later the king saw fit to seize all the Counties Palatine in Ireland, of such importance had they become. But the Palatine of Tipperary was restored to Ormond on account of his royal consanguinity by marriage. This was the period of the overmighty subject that led to the Wars of the Roses. Ormond himself had extensive and widely distributed properites. Yet he lived and fought chiefly in Ireland where, in the flower of his youth, he died in his manor, a stone tower covered with shingles, at Moyalvi, Co. Tipperary. [Butler Family History]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1165 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England d.>Apr 1206 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.1200 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.~ 1176 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1250 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.1223 in Norfolk, England d.26 Dec 1248 in Monastery of Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland
- b.~ 1170 in Huntspill, Somerset, England d. in Ireland
- b.~ 1202 in Ireland d.<04 Sep 1225
- b.~ 1242 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.26 Sep 1285 in Arklow Castle, Wicklow, Ireland
- b.~ 1178 in Norfolk, England d.1205 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1198 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland d.17 FEB 1242/43 in Gascony, France
- b.~ 1178 in Munster, Clare, Ireland
- b.~ 1224 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1190 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland d.~ 1211
- b.~ 1208 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1192 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1271 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.13 Sep 1321 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1138 in Costow, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1208 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258 in Farmbridge, Essex, England
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1168 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.<04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1137 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1252 in Shere, Surrey, England d.~26 May 1303
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1155 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.~ 1212 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1252
- b.1146 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Henley, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1305 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.6 JAN 1337/38 in Moyalvi, Tipperary, Ireland
- b.~ 1150 in Windsor, Berkshire, England d.1245 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1190 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland (Justiciar of Ireland) d.1257 in As a Friar at Franciscan Friary at Youghal, Ireland
- b.1165 in Offaly, Kildare, Ireland d.<Dec 1226
- b.1240 in Banada, Sligo, Ireland d.1271 in Ballyloughmask, Mayo, Ireland
- b.~ 1190 in Bampton, Devonshire, England d.1278
- b.~ 1223 in Bampton, Devonshire, England
- b.~ 1208 in Enniscorthy, Wexford, Ireland
- b.~ 1257 in Castle of Woodstock, Athy, Kildare, Ireland d.12 Sep 1316 in Laraghbryan, Maynooth, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1203 in Castle of Woodstock near Athy, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1240 in Athy, Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1281 in Offaly, Offaly, Ireland d.02 May 1320
- b.1160 in Rhos, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1190 in Roche Castle, Roch, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1165 in England
- b.~ 1220 in Roche Castle, Roch, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1252 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
- b.~ 1257 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland d.> 1327
- b.~ 1224 in Manor of Eglwys Cwmmin, Wales
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James and Eleanor de were married in a religious ceremony on October 17th, 1327 in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England. They had a son and a daughter, named James and Petronella (Pernel).
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Children
James Butler , 2nd Earl of Ormond
James was born on October 4th, 1331 in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland. He died at the age of 51 on October 18th, 1382 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland.
Petronella (Pernel) Butler
Petronella (Pernel) was born about 1332 in Ormonde, Kerry, Ireland. She died after May 28th, 1365.
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