James le Botiller 
James was born on October 4th, 1331 in Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. James' father was James le Botiller and his mother was Eleanor De Bohun. His paternal grandparents were Edmund le Botiller and Joan FitzThomas; his maternal grandparents were Humphrey De Bohun and Elizabeth Plantagenet. He had three sisters named Anne, John and Petronella. He is the second youngest of the four children.General Notes
REFN: 10140AN
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; Constable of Dublin Castle; Lord Justici
ar of Ireland
2nd son and heir
Older titles of Earl of Ormond (created 1328) and Chief Butler of Irela
nd (created c.1171)
Acceded 1338; the Noble Earl designation referred to the fact that he w
as the great grandson of King Edward I.
"James the Chaste" was used by the Irish and he resided chiefly in Ireland
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Will dated 31 Aug 1379; proved 28 Apr 1386
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Cokayne's Complete Peerage in Dave's Database.
Dave's Database. Utzinger, Dave, Rootsweb's WorldConnect, World Wide We
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db=utzing) [30 August 2002].
EARLDOM OF ORMOND [IRL]
II. 2. JAMES BUTLER (or LE BOTILLER), 2nd Earl of Ormond, was born at Kilk
enny on 4 Oct 1331. He resided chiefly in Ireland, distinguishing himse
lf in the wars there, and receiving many grants for his good service
s. He was several times Chief Governor of Ireland. He was married (with pa
pal dispensation dated 15 May 1346, the parties being related in the four
th degree) to ELIZABETH DARCY, daughter of John Darcy, Knt., of Knaith (
of baronial descent), probably by his second wife Joan, fourth daught
er of Richard Burgh, Earl of Ulster [IRL] ( of Magna Charta Surety desce
nt and descendant of Charlemagne). JAMES BUTLER, Earl of Ormond, died ag
ed fifty-one in his castle of Knocktopher on 18 Oct. (or 6 Nov.) 1382, a
nd was buried at Gowran. [CP 10:119-21, 14:516], , , , , ,
Text: -Vol. X, pp. 119-121; vol. XIV, p. 516
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1200 in Arklow, Wicklow, Lenster, Ireland d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.~ 1218 in Ireland d.1248 in Ireland
- b. in Staffordshire, England
- b.~ 1242 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.>21 Mar 1307 in Arklow Castle, Wicklow, Ireland
- b.~ 1200 in Connaught, Ireland d.17 Feb 1243
- b.~ 1220 in Galway, Galway, Ireland
- b.~ 1200 in Meath, Irreland
- b.~ 1271 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland d.13 Sep 1321 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1162 in Northhampton, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Walden, Essex, England
- b.29 May 1205 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258 in Farmbridge, Essex, England
- b.1172 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1252 in Sherre, Surrey, England d.~26 May 1303 in Ireland
- b.1186 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.18 Feb 1225 in England
- b.~ 1210 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1258
- b.1193 in Norfolk, England d.27 Mar 1248
- b.1304 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.06 Jan 1338 in Cowran, Kilkenney, Ireland
- b.~ 1261 in Kildare, Ireland
- b.~ 1281 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland d.02 May 1320
- b.~ 1190 in Roche Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1220 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland d.> 1260
- b.~ 1257 in Fermoy, Cork, Ireland d.> 1327 in Offaly, Ireland
- b.~ 1224 in Manor of Eglwys, Cwmmin, Wales
- b.04 Oct 1331 in Kilkenny, Co Kilkenny, Ireland
- b.~ 1208 in Herfordshire, England d.24 Sep 1274
- b.12 Aug 1231 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.27 Aug 1265 in Beeston Castle, Cheshire, England
- b.1208 in La Marche, Peisteu, France d.14 Aug 1241
- b.1249 in Herefordshire, England d.31 Dec 1298 in Pleshey Castle, Essex, England
- b.~ 1198 in Brecknock, Surrey, England d.02 May 1230 in Wales
- b.1230 in Brecon, Breconshire, Wales d.20 Feb 1313 in Llanthony Inn, Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1206 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1246
- b.~ 1276 in Pleshey Castle, Essex, England d.16 Mar 1322 in Battle of Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1170 in Buckinghamshire, England d.1241 in Palestine
- b.1192 in Knights Tolleshunt, Essex, England d.1267 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1177 in Dammartin, Sem, France
- b.~ 1235 in Wendover Manor, Buckinghamshire, England d.06 Nov 1298
- b.1177 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.1203 in Hampden, Buckinghamshire, England
- b.<17 Oct 1305 in Quendon, Essex, England d.07 Oct 1363 in Ireland
- b.24 Dec 1167 in Beaumont Palace, Oxforshire, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, England
- b.01 Oct 1207 in Winchester, England d.16 Nov 1272 in Bury St Edmund, Suffolk, England
- b.1188 in Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.18 Jun 1239 in Westiminister, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England
- b.1198 in Aix-En-Provence, Provence, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1218 in Aix-en-Provence, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1198 in Savoy, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.Aug 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales d.05 May 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England
- b.15 Aug 1171 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva, De Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Castile, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.08 Jan 1181 in Segovia, Castile, Spain d.08 Nov 1246 in Burgos, Spain
- b.~ 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.29 Nov 1290 in Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1180 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, France
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, France d.16 Mar 1279 in Abbeville, Somme, France
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Normandy, France d.1250 in Normandy, France
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They had a son named James.
Family Notes
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Children
James Le Botiller
James was born in 1362 in Gowran, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. He died at the age of 43 on September 6th, 1405 in Gowran, Co Kilkenny, Ireland.
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