Biography of Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde 1426-1515
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On 07 Sep 1405 [his grandfather] James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde (age 46) died. His son [his father] James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 12) succeeded 4th Earl Ormonde.
In 1413 [his father] James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 19) and [his mother] Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde. They were third cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
In 1426 Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde was born to James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 32) and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde.
In or after 1427 Elizabeth Fitzwarin 8th Baroness Fitzwarin (age 24) died. Her daughter [his future sister-in-law] Thomasine Hankford 9th Baroness Fitzwarin (age 4) succeeded 9th Baroness Fitzwarin.
On 18 Jul 1432 [his father] James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 39) and [his step-mother] Joan or Elizabeth Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. She the daughter of Gerald Fitzgerald 5th Earl of Kildare and Margaret Rocheford Countess Kildare. He the son of James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde and Anne Welles Countess Ormonde. They were half second cousins. He a great x 3 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
In 1445 Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 19) and Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 14) were married. She the daughter of Richard Hankford and Anne Montagu Duchess Exeter (age 44). He the son of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 51) and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England. She a great x 4 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
Before 25 Oct 1445 William Bourchier Baron Fitzwarin (age 30) and [his sister-in-law] Thomasine Hankford 9th Baroness Fitzwarin (age 22) were married. He by marriage Baron Fitzwarin. He the son of William Bourchier 1st Count Eu and Anne of Gloucester Plantagenet Countess Eu and Stafford. He a great grandson of King Edward III of England.
On 23 Aug 1452 [his father] James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (age 59) died at Dublin [Map]. He was buried at St Mary's Abbey, Dublin. His son [his brother] James Butler 1st Earl Wiltshire 5th Earl Ormonde (age 31) succeeded 5th Earl Ormonde.
In 1453 [his sister-in-law] Thomasine Hankford 9th Baroness Fitzwarin (age 30) died. Her son Fulk Bourchier 10th Baron Fitzwarin (age 7) succeeded 10th Baron Fitzwarin.
Around 1454 [his daughter] Margaret Butler was born to Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 28) and [his wife] Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 23).
In 1455 [his daughter] Anne Butler was born to Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 29) and [his wife] Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 24).
In 1465 [his son-in-law] William Boleyn (age 14) and [his daughter] Margaret Butler (age 11) were married. She the daughter of Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 39) and Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 34). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
On 14 Dec 1476 [his brother] John Butler 6th Earl Ormonde (age 54) died. His brother Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 50) succeeded 7th Earl Ormonde. [his wife] Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 45) by marriage Countess Ormonde.
Around 1477 John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy (age 27) and [his future wife] Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy.
In 1485 [his wife] Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde (age 54) died.
After 12 Oct 1485 Thomas Montgomery and [his future wife] Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married.
After 02 Jan 1495 Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 69) and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde. He the son of James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde and Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde. He a great x 4 grandson of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
Around 1497 [his step-son] William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 19) and Elizabeth Saye Baroness Mountjoy (age 18) were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy. He the son of John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde.
Before 30 Jul 1509 [his step-son] William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 31) and Inez Venegas Baroness Mountjoy were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy. He the son of John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde.
In 1510 [his brother-in-law] Thomas Berkeley (age 40) died at Tetbury, Gloucestershire. His death year if usually reported as after 1500 but since his daughter Elizabeth was born in 1510 we have adjusted his death date to her birth date.
In Feb 1515 [his step-son] William Blount 4th Baron Mountjoy (age 37) and Alice Keble Baroness Mountjoy were married. She by marriage Baroness Mountjoy. He the son of John Blount 3rd Baron Mountjoy and Lora Berkeley Countess Ormonde.
Archaeologia Volume 3 Section V. 31 Jul 1515. I, Thomas Butler (age 89) knt. erle of Ormonda, do make this my last will and testament, &c.
Item I give and devise to my dar dame [his daughter] Anne St. Leger (age 60) — to my dar dame [his daughter] Marg’t. Bolin (age 61), late the wife of Sir [his former son-in-law] Wm. Bolin knt. my manor of Newhall in Essex
Item when my lorde my father, whose soul God affoile [?], left and delivered unto me a lytle whyte horne of ivory , garnished at both thendes with gold, and corse thereunto of whyte sylke , barred with barres of gold, and a tyret of golde thereupon, which was myn auncetours at fyrst time they were called to honourb, and hath sythen contynually remained in the same blode, for wych cause my seid lord and father commanded me upon his blessing, that I shuld doo my devoir to cause it to contynue still in my blode as far furth as that myght lye in me soo to be doone to the honor of the same blode. Therefore for the accomplishiment of my seid father’s will, as farr as it is in me to execute the same, I will that my executors delyver unto Sir Tho. Boleyn (age 38) knt. son and heir apparent of my said dar Margaret (age 61), the said lytle white horn and corse, he to keep the same to the use of the issuee male of his body lawfully begotten. And for lack of such issue the said horne to remayne and be delyvered to Sir George Seyntleger (age 31) knt. son of my said dar Anne, and to the issue male which successively shall come of the body of the said George. And so to contynue in the issue male of the bodies of the same dame Margaret and dame Anne, as long as shall fortune any such issue male of their bodies to be. And alls for default of issue male of the body of any of my said daughters, the said horn to remaine, and to be delivered to the next issue male of my said auncetors, so that it may contynew styl in my blode hereafter as long as it shall please God, lyke as it hath doone hytherto to the honor of the same blode.
Note a. He was the 7th Ead of Ormond, and 3d son of James the 4th Earl. He was attainted by E. IV, but restored by H. VII. sworn of the privy-counci, and summoned as a baron to the English parliament by the title of Thomas Ormond de Rochford. He died 1515, and was buried in the church of Sir Thomas D'Acres, now Mercers Chapel, London. His two daughters married as above, Sir James St. Leger, ancestor to the family of Eggesford, in Devonshire, and Sir William Bullen, Knight of the Bath, and father of Tho. Viscount Rochford (age 38), [who was the father of] Queen Anne (age 14), and Mary (age 16) wife of Wm. Carey (age 15), ancestor to the Lord Hunsdon.
Note b. Q. Whether, on Henry II's appointing Theobald, the first of this family, butler of Ireland, 1177, or on the creation of the first Earl of Ormond, by E. I, when the county of Tipperary was made palatine.
On 03 Aug 1515 Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde (age 89) died. His first cousin twice removed Piers "Red" Butler 8th Earl Ormonde 1st Earl Ossory (age 48) succeeded 8th Earl Ormonde. Margaret Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory by marriage Countess Ormonde.
On 08 Dec 1529 King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 38) created three Earldoms ...
Thomas Boleyn 1st Earl Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 52) was created 1st Earl Wiltshire, 1st Earl Ormonde. Elizabeth Howard Countess of Wiltshire and Ormonde (age 49) by marriage Earl Wiltshire, Countess Ormonde. His [his daughter] mother (age 75) was the daughter of the last Earl Ormonde Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde.
George Hastings 1st Earl Huntingdon (age 42) was created 1st Earl Huntingdon. Anne Stafford Countess Huntingdon (age 46) by marriage Countess Huntingdon.
Robert Radclyffe 1st Earl of Sussex (age 46) was created 1st Earl of Sussex by King Henry VIII of England and Ireland (age 38). Elizabeth Stafford Countess Sussex 1479-1532 (age 50) by marriage Countess of Sussex.
Letters and Papers 1530. 01 Oct 1530. P. S. 6658. [his daughter] Anne Seyntleger (age 75) and [his daughter] Margaret Boleyn (age 76), Widows.
Livery of lands in Ireland as daughters and heirs of Thomas Earl of Ormond, deceased. Hampton Court [Map], 24 Sept. 22 Henry VIII. Del. Chelsea, 1 Oct.
Pat. 22 Henry VIII. p. 2, m. 8.
R.O. 2. Original patent of the preceding.
02 Oct 1530 Vit. B. XIII. 87 b. B. M. 6659.
As the beast, whom his correspondent knows, takes no account of his duty, nor of his own nor the King's honor, having no fear of deceiving or imposing on any one, I suggest that, for revenge, you should write to me, begging for the remainder of the money, mentioning my promises and your deserts, which were the chief cause of gaining friends for the King at Padua, and of the Paduan instrument, which the King highly values. You must also praise Simonetus, saying that Ambrose would have done nothing without him; and, without abuse of the Bishop, bewail his shabbiness. I will attest everything to the King from the relations of others. You must write to me two letters; one copy I will show to the man himself, and thus compel him to perform his promises, not without interest. If he does not do so soon, will take care that the King reads the other letter. The consequences will be more than perhaps you hoped. You may be sure that I will do what I can, either by myself or through friends. Venice, 2 Oct.
James St Leger and [his daughter] Anne Butler were married. She the daughter of Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde and Anne Hankford Countess Ormonde. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England.
Around 1497 Thomas Berkeley and Elizabeth Neville were married. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.
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Great x 4 Grandfather: Theobald Butler
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Butler 1st Earl Carrick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Fitzjohn
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Butler 1st Earl Ormonde
Great x 1 Grandfather: James Butler 2nd Earl Ormonde Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Fiennes Countess Essex and Hereford
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Bohun Countess Ormonde Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward "Longshanks" I of England Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
GrandFather: James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Norman Darcy
Great x 3 Grandfather: Roger Darcy
Great x 2 Grandfather: John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy of Knayth
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Aton
Great x 3 Grandmother: Isabel Aton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Darcy Countess Ormonde
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Burgh 1st Earl Ulster
Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard "Red Earl" Burgh 2nd Earl Ulster
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Burgh Countess Kildare
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Burgh
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Burgh Countess Ulster
Father: James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Adam Welles 1st Baron Welles
Great x 2 Grandfather: Adam Welles 3rd Baron Welles
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Welles 4th Baron Welles
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Bardolf 1st Baron Bardolf
Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret Bardolf Baroness Welles
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Grandison 1st Baron Grandison
Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Grandison Baroness Bardolf
Great x 4 Grandmother: Sibylla Tregoz Baroness Grandison
GrandMother: Anne Welles Countess Ormonde 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Ros
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel D'Aubigny
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Ros 2nd Baron Ros Helmsley
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Vaux
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Vaux Baroness Ros
Great x 1 Grandmother: Maud Ros Baroness Welles 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gunselin Badlesmere
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Fitzbernard
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margery Badlesmere Baroness Ros Helmsley 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas de Clare 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Clare Baroness Badlesmere 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Fitzgerald 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Thomas Butler 7th Earl Ormonde 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Beauchamp
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Maudit
Great x 2 Grandfather: Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzgeoffrey
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Fitzjohn Countess Warwick
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabel Bigod
Great x 1 Grandfather: Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Tosny 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Ralph Tosny 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Bohun
Great x 2 Grandmother: Alice Tosny Countess Warwick 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
GrandFather: William Beauchamp 1st Baron Bergavenny 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 1st Baron Mortimer of Wigmore Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer of Wigmore 2 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud de Braose
Great x 2 Grandfather: Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March 3 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Fiennes
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Fiennes 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Beaumont 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Katherine Mortimer Countess Warwick 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Geneville 1st Baron Geneville
Great x 3 Grandfather: Piers Geneville
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Lacy Baroness Geneville
Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Geneville Baroness Mortimer 2nd Baroness Geneville 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hugh Lusignan XII Count Lusignan VII Count La Marche III Count Angoulême 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jeanne Lusignan 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Jeanne Fougères Countess Lusignan Countess La Marche and Angoulême
Mother: Joan Beauchamp Countess Ormonde 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 8th Earl Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel 4 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel 8th Earl Surrey 5 x Great Grand Son of King John "Lackland" of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Warenne
Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Warenne Countess Arundel
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Vere
Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Fitzalan 9th Earl Surrey 11th Earl Arundel 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl of Leicester 3rd Earl Lancaster Grand Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Blanche Capet Queen Navarre 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Maud Chaworth
Great x 4 Grandmother: Isabella Beauchamp Baroness Monthermer
GrandMother: Joan Fitzalan Baroness Bergavenny 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 3rd Earl Hereford 2nd Earl Essex
Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford 3rd Earl Essex
Great x 4 Grandmother: Maud Fiennes Countess Essex and Hereford
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Bohun 1st Earl of Northampton Grand Son of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: King Edward "Longshanks" I of England Son of King Henry III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Bohun Countess Arundel and Surrey Great Grand Daughter of King Edward "Longshanks" I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gunselin Badlesmere
Great x 3 Grandfather: Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere
Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Fitzbernard
Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Badlesmere Countess Northampton 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas de Clare 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Clare Baroness Badlesmere 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliana Fitzgerald 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England