Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory 1532-1614

Around 1532 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory was born to James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory [aged 31] and Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 23].

Before 21st December 1532 [his father] James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory [aged 31] and [his mother] Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 23] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond. He the son of Piers "Red" Butler 8th Earl Ormonde 1st Earl Ossory [aged 65] and Margaret Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory. They were fifth cousins.

On 26th August 1539 [his grandfather] Piers "Red" Butler 8th Earl Ormonde 1st Earl Ossory [aged 72] died. His son [his father] James [aged 38] succeeded 9th Earl Ormonde, 2nd Earl Ossory. [his mother] Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 30] by marriage Countess Ormonde, Countess Ossory.

On 28th October 1546 [his father] James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory [aged 45] died. His son Thomas [aged 14] succeeded 10th Earl Ormonde, 3rd Earl Ossory.

In August 1548 [his step-father] Francis Bryan [aged 58] and [his mother] Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 39] were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond.

In 1551 [his step-father] Gerald Fitzgerald 14th Earl Desmond [aged 18] and [his mother] Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 42] were married. No issue. A political marriage; the age difference being twenty-four years. She was the eldest daughter of [his grandfather] James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond. The marriage brought a temporary truce to the Desmond and Ormonde factions. The difference in their ages was 24 years; she, unusually, being older than him. She the daughter of James Fitzgerald 10th Earl Desmond. He the son of James Fitzgerald 13th Earl Desmond and More O'Carroll. They were second cousins.

Chronicle of Queen Jane and Two Years of Queen Mary 1553. 19th December 1553. The xix. daie, the erle of Ormonde [aged 21], sir (blank) Courteney knight, and mr. Barnaby, fell out in the night with a certayn priest in the streat, whose parte a gentyllman comyng by chance took, and so they fell by the eares; so that Barnabye was hurt. The morowe they were ledd by the ij. sheryves to the counter in the Pultry, where they remayned (blank) daies.

Around 1559 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 27] and Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 24] were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde, Countess Ossory. He the son of James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory and Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 50].

Henry Machyn's Diary. 11th July 1559. The xj day of July ther was mad a plasse [for the queen's] pensyoners to rune with-owt a tyltt with spayrers [spears]. [There were three] chalengers, my lord of Urmon [aged 27], and ser John Paratt [aged 30], and master [North], and ther wher (blank) deffenders boyth with spares [spears] and sw[ords.] Abowt v [5] of the cloke at after-non the Quen('s) [aged 25] grace [came,] and the inbassadurs, and dyver lordes and lades stode [over the] gatt for to se; and after thay rane one chassy[ng the other], and after the Quen('s) grace cam down in-to the parke [and] toke her horse, and rod up to the bankett howse, [with] the inbassadurs and the lordes and lades, and so to soper [and] a maske, and after a grett bankett, and after grett castyng [of fire] and shutyng of gunes tyll xij [12] at nyght.

On 2nd January 1565 [his mother] Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 56] died.

On 1st September 1582 [his wife] Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Ormonde and Ossory [aged 47] died. She was buried in Westminster Abbey [Map].

On 9th November 1582 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 50] and Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde, Countess Ossory. He the son of James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory and Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory.

Before 4th September 1583 [his son] James Butler was born to Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 51] and [his wife] Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory. He died aged five point nine zero four six five in 1589.

In 1588 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 56] was appointed 370th Knight of the Garter by Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland [aged 54].

In 1589 [his son] James Butler [aged 5] died.

Before 1601 [his son] Thomas Butler was born to Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 68] and [his wife] Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory. He died aged five point zero zero zero zero five in 1606.

In 1601 [his son] Piers FitzThomas Butler died.

In 1601 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 69] and Eleanor Barry Countess Ormonde and Ossory were married. She by marriage Countess Ormonde, Countess Ossory. He the son of James Butler 9th Earl Ormonde 2nd Earl Ossory and Joan Fitzgerald Countess Ormonde and Ossory. They were second cousin twice removed.

In 1606 [his son] Thomas Butler [aged 5] died.

Around September 1614 Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond and Elizabeth Butler were married. The King imposed this marriage on Black Tom, Elizabeth's father, who did not want the royal favourite for a son-in-law but could not oppose the King's will. She the daughter of Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 82] and Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory.

On 22nd November 1614 Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory [aged 82] died. His nephew Walter [aged 55] succeeded 11th Earl Ormonde, 4th Earl Ossory. Helen Butler Countess Ormonde and Ossory by marriage Countess Ormonde, Countess Ossory.

In 1631 Thomas Somerset 1st Viscount Somerset [aged 52] and [his wife] Eleanor Barry Countess Ormonde and Ossory were married. She by marriage Viscountess Somerset of Cashel. He the son of Edward Somerset 4th Earl of Worcester and Elizabeth Hastings Countess of Worcester. They were fifth cousin once removed.

[his daughter] Elizabeth Butler was born to Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory and Elizabeth Sheffield Countess Ormonde and Ossory. She married (1) her first cousin Theobald Butler (2) September 1614 Richard Preston 1st Earl Desmond and had issue.

John Power and Eleanor Barry Countess Ormonde and Ossory were married. They were fourth cousins.

[his son] Piers FitzThomas Butler was born to Thomas "Black Tom" Butler 10th Earl Ormonde 3rd Earl Ossory. He married Catherine Fleming, daughter of Thomas Fleming 10th Baron Slane, and had issue.