Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond

• Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl Ormond, Baron Ormond of Rocheford, Chief Butler of Ireland1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11
• M, #13903, b. circa 1424, d. 3 August 1515
• Father James Butler, 4th Earl Ormond12,13,14 b. 28 May 1393, d. 23 Aug 1452
• Mother Joan Beauchamp12,13,14 b. c 1399, d. 3 Aug 1430 or 5 Aug 1430
• Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl Ormond, Baron Ormond of Rocheford, Chief Butler of Ireland was born circa 1424 at of Swavesey, Cambridgeshire, England.15 He married Anne Hankford, daughter of Sir Richard Hankford and Anne Montacute, before 11 July 1445; They had 2 daughters (Anne, wife of Ambrose Cresacre, Esq. & of Sir James St. Leger; & Margaret, wife of Sir William Boleyn).15,2,4,7,9,10 Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl Ormond, Baron Ormond of Rocheford, Chief Butler of Ireland married Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley, Sheriff of Hampshire & Gloucestershire, Bailiff of Burley and Christian Holt, before November 1496; They had 1 daughter (Elizabeth).15,16,2,3,6,7,8 Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl Ormond, Baron Ormond of Rocheford, Chief Butler of Ireland left a will on 31 July 1515.2,7 He died on 3 August 1515; Buried in the chapel of St. Thomas Acon (Mercer's Chapel), Cheapside, London.15,2,6,7 His estate was probated on 25 August 1515.2,7
• Family 1 Lora Berkeley b. b 1466, d. b 31 Oct 1501
• Child
  • Elizabeth Butler d. 1510
• Family 2 Anne Hankford b. Jan 1431 or Feb 1431, d. 13 Nov 1485
• Children
  • Margaret Butler+17,2,5,7,11 b. c 1454, d. c 20 Mar 1540
  • Anne Butler+2,7 b. 1462, d. 5 Jun 1532
• Citations
• 1.[S3801] Unknown author, Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists, p. 108; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 1909.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 382-383.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 175.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 335.
• 5.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 402.
• 6.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 262-263.
• 7.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 52-53.
• 8.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 594.
• 9.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 665.
• 10.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 198.
• 11.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 313-314.
• 12.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 178.
• 13.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 380-381.
• 14.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 50.
• 15.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 179.
• 16.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 313.
• 17.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 178-179.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p463.htm#i...
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• Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde1
• M, #112845, d. 3 August 1515
• Last Edited=30 Apr 2008
• Consanguinity Index=0.93%
• Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde was the son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde and Elizabeth Beauchamp. He died on 3 August 1515.
• He gained the title of 7th Earl of Ormonde.1
• Child of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde and Anne Hankeford
  • 1.Margaret Butler+1 b. c 1465, d. bt 30 Sep 1539 - 20 Mar 1540
• Citations
• 1.[S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 10. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p11285.htm#i112845
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• Thomas BUTLER (7° E. Ormonde)
• Born: ABT 1426, Ormonde, Ireland
• Acceded: 1477
• Died: 3 Aug 1515
• Buried: St. Thomas Acon, London
• Notes: In 1475 the attainder against the Butler family was annulled by the Irish Parliament. The first English Parliament of Henry VII followed suit, so that the 7th Earl (the youngest of the three brothers), whom the Irish called "The Earl of Wool", was one of the wealthiest of the King's subjects in England. In 1489 he was created Lord Ormond, a barony in the peerage of England, which on his death fell into abeyance between his daughters. He spent the years from 1505 to 1515 in England. While there, the 7th Earl was granted a fine manor house at Beaulieu in Essex by King Henry VII. He entertained Henry VIII there in 1510 and again in 1515. On his death this English property went to his daughter, Margaret, who had married William Boleyn. The son of one her daughters inherited from him no less than 36 manors in England; the son of the other daughter was father of Anne Boleyn. After bequeathing his treasured heirloom of an ancient gold and ivory drinking horn to his namesake and grandson, Thomas Boleyn, the Earl died in 1515 and was buried in an Easter Sepulchre on the north side of the high altar in the chapel of St Thomas Acon, London, built where St Thomas Becket was supposed to have been born.
• Father: James BUTLER (4° E. Ormonde)
• Mother: Joan (Elizabeth) BEAUCHAMP
• Married 1: Anne HANKFORD (b. 1430/1 - d. 13 Nov 1485) (dau. of Richard Hankford and Anne Montague) BEF 11 Jul 1445
• Children:
  • 1. Anne BUTLER
  • 2. Margaret BUTLER
• Married 2: Lora BERKELEY (B. Mountjoy / C. Ormonde) BEF Nov 1496
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER.htm#Thomas BUTLER (7° E. Ormonde)

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Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, P.C., was born c.1426 and died 3 August 1515. He was the son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond and Joan de Beauchamp. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII' s first Parliament, November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by Edward IV, which declared him and his brothers traitors, were utterly abrogated. He was afterwards sworn of the Privy Council of England, and had summons to Parliament, 14 November 1495, as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford.”

He was known as The Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.[1]

He married firstly, Anne Hankford, daughter of Sir Richard Hankford and Anne Montagu, and had two daughters and co-heiresses, who inherited the English estates:

• Anne Butler (b. c. 1455), married Sir James St. Leger, and had a son.
• Margaret Butler (b. c. 1454-bt 1539/40), married Sir William Boleyn, and had issue. Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII, was their granddaughter. Queen Elizabeth I was, therefore, their great-granddaughter.

He married, secondly, Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley, and widow of 3rd Lord Mountjoy and by her had issue:

• Lord James Butler murdered 1497 by Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, rival claimant to the Earldom
• Lady Elizabeth Butler, (died 1510).

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon.[2] He held this post until 1512.

References

• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Butler,_7th_Earl_of_Ormond
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Thomas Butler

7th Earl of Ormonde[1,2,3]

Sex Male

Lived In Ireland

Complete *

Died 3 Aug 1515

Person ID I00101384 Leo

Last Modified 17 Aug 1996

Father James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde, b. Abt 1392

Mother Joan de Beauchamp

Family ID F00044108 Group Sheet

Family 1 Anne Hankeford, b. Abt 1431

Married Bef 11 Jul 1445

Children

1. Lady Anne Butler
2. Lady Margaret Butler, b. Abt 1465

Last Modified 14 Sep 2002

Family ID F00018536 Group Sheet

Family 2 Lora Berkeley

Married Bef Nov 1496

Children

	1. Lady Elizabeth Butler

Last Modified 17 Aug 1996

Family ID F00044111 Group Sheet

Sources 1. [S01352] ~Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, London, 1938, Reference: Page 1909

2. [S00120] Cahiers de Saint Louis , Dupont, Jacques and Saillot, Jacques, Reference: 428

3. [S00058] The Complete Peerage, 1936 , Doubleday, H.A. & Lord Howard de Walden, Reference: X 131

^ Marie Louise Bruce, Anne Boleyn, p. 11

^ Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII, pgs. 59, 117

Marie Louise Bruce, Anne Boleyn, p.11

Antonia Fraser, The Wives of Henry VIII, pgs.59, 117

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From: A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire

By John Burke

Published by H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832

Item notes: 4th ed.:v.1(1832)

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Aug 1, 2007

This is a branch of the noble house of Ormonde, springing from, JAMES, third earl, who, besides legitimate children, had two illegitimate sons, Thomas, prior of Kilmainham, and lord-deputy of Ireland, in the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry V., and JAMES LE BOTILLER, whose descendants, by the settlement of Thomas, the tenth earl, were

made next in remainder to the house of Ormonde, after the family of Donboyne, From this James lineally descended THOMAS BUTLER, esq. of Caher, who m. Ellice, daughter of the Earl of Desmond, and was father of EDMUND BUTLER, esq.

From: A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire

By Bernard Burke

Published by Harrison, 1866

Original from Harvard University

Digitized Sep 1, 2005

THOMAS BUTLER, of Cahir-dun Eske, Esq., m. Ellice, dau. of

Thomas, 8lh Earl of Desmond, and was father of EDMUND

BUTLER, who, by Catharine, dau. of Sir Pierce le Poer, Knt.,

left Issue,

I. THOMAS, of whom presently.

Il. Pierce, who was father of

THEOBALD, who became Baron Caher.

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This person in NOT the Sir Thomas Boteler of Bewsey, Lancashire, the first, XVth Baron of Warrington, b 1461, d 27 Apr 1522, son of Sir John Boteler and Margaret Stanley who married Margaret Delves born c1492, daughter of Sir John Delves of Doddington, Knight, and Elen de Egerton.

Contents

[hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Note 2 Sources 2.1 Acknowledgments Biography

Thomas Butler 7th Earl of Ormonde was born about 1424.[1]

Thomas was the son of Joan Beauchamp, b. Abt 1396, d. 3 Aug 1430, Shere, Surrey, England, and James IV Le Butler, Earl Of Ormonde, b. 1392, d. 23 Aug 1452, Ardennes, Luxembourg, Netherlands.

Thomas had siblings:

James, Earl of Wiltshire & Ormonde;[1] Thomas was made an esquire in 1442.[1] He was attainted in November 1464, and restored in October or November 1472.[1] He succeeded his brother James as Earl of Ormonde and Chief Butler of Ireland, on 14 October 1478.[1] On 5 July 1483 Thomas was knighted.[1] As Baron Rochford he was summoned to Parliament on 14 October 1495.[1]

Thomas was appointed Chief Inspector and Commission of Array in counties Devon and Cornwall on 17 December 1484.[1] Between 15 February 1486 and February 1502, he was Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth (of York).[1] He was Joint Ambassador to treat with Bretagne, 19 July, 1486; Chief Ambassador to France, September, 1492; and Ambassador to Burgundy in 1497.[1] Thomas was appointed Privy Counsellor on 17 December 1504.[1] In 1509, he became Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, Katherine of Aragon.[1] He was appointed Justice of the Peace in co Devon in December 1484 and in co Essex.[1]

Thomas married Anne Hankford, the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hankford, knight,[1] before 1450. Thomas and Anne had children:

Margaret Butler. After the death of his first wife, Thomas married Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley.

The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Butler Seventh Earl of Ormonde, Chief Butler of Ireland, Baron Rochford died 2 August 1515,[1] and was buried in August at St. Thomas Acon, London, Middlesex, England.

Note

Ancestor of Anne Boleyn. Called the Wool Earl. Sources

↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 James E Doyle, The Official Baronage of England showing the Succession, Dingities and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1855, Vol. III Dukes - Viscounts Pembroke-Zetland, (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1886), https://archive.org/stream/officialbaronage03doyl#page/156/mode/2up pp.157-8. See also:

Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=18646117&pid... http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=17142559&pid... Acknowledgments

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http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Butler-840

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Biography

Thomas Butler 7th Earl of Ormonde was born about 1424.[1]

Thomas was the son of Joan Beauchamp, b. Abt 1396, d. 3 Aug 1430, Shere, Surrey, England, and James IV Le Butler, Earl Of Ormonde, b. 1392, d. 23 Aug 1452, Ardennes, Luxembourg, Netherlands.

Thomas had siblings:

James, Earl of Wiltshire & Ormonde;[1] Thomas was made an esquire in 1442.[1] He was attainted in November 1464, and restored in October or November 1472.[1] He succeeded his brother James as Earl of Ormonde and Chief Butler of Ireland, on 14 October 1478.[1] On 5 July 1483 Thomas was knighted.[1] As Baron Rochford he was summoned to Parliament on 14 October 1495.[1]

Thomas was appointed Chief Inspector and Commission of Array in counties Devon and Cornwall on 17 December 1484.[1] Between 15 February 1486 and February 1502, he was Lord Chamberlain to Queen Elizabeth (of York).[1] He was Joint Ambassador to treat with Bretagne, 19 July, 1486; Chief Ambassador to France, September, 1492; and Ambassador to Burgundy in 1497.[1] Thomas was appointed Privy Counsellor on 17 December 1504.[1] In 1509, he became Lord Chamberlain to the Queen, Katherine of Aragon.[1] He was appointed Justice of the Peace in co Devon in December 1484 and in co Essex.[1]

Thomas married Anne Hankford, the daughter and heir of Sir Richard Hankford, knight,[1] before 1450. Thomas and Anne had children:

Margaret Butler. After the death of his first wife, Thomas married Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley.

The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Butler Seventh Earl of Ormonde, Chief Butler of Ireland, Baron Rochford died 2 August 1515,[1] and was buried in August at St. Thomas Acon, London, Middlesex, England.

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Thomas was the 7th Earl of Ormond.

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Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, P.C. (1426 – 3 August, 1515) was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII' s first Parliament in November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by Edward IV, which declared him and his brothers traitors, were abrogated.

Family Thomas Butler was the third son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by his first wife, Joan de Beauchamp (d. 3 or 5 August 1430). He had two elder brothers, James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, as well as two sisters, Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Butler (d. 4 January 1435), who was contracted to marry Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, although the marriage appears not to have taken place. [3]

Career Thomas Butler, as an Irish peer, should only have sat in the Irish Parliament. However, as a personal friend of Henry VII he was summoned to the English Parliament in November 1488 as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford chevaler". At this time he was already 8th Earl of Carrick and 7th Earl of Ormond,[4] having succeeded his elder brothers James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, neither of whom left legitimate issue.

He was afterwards sworn of the Privy Council of England.

He was known as The Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.[5]

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon.[6] He held this post until 1512.

Marriage and progeny He married twice: Firstly in 1445 to Anne Hankford (1431–1485), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 – 1431) of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, jure uxoris feudal baron of Bampton[7] (grandson of Sir William Hankford (c. 1350 – 1423), Chief Justice of the King's Bench) by his 2nd wife Anne Montagu (d.1457), a daughter of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 – 1400).[8] By Anne Hankford he had two daughters and co-heiresses who inherited the Butler estates in England:

Lady Anne Butler (1455-June 5, 1533), heiress through her mother of Annery,[9] who married firstly Ambrose Cressacre, esquire, by whom she had no issue, and secondly Sir James St Leger (d.1509), by whom she had two sons, Sir George St Leger, and James St Leger.[10]

Lady Margaret Butler (1465–1537), who married Sir William Boleyn, by whom she had six sons and five daughters, including Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, father of Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII.[11]

Secondly in 1486[citation needed], he married Lora Berkeley (1454–1501), widow successively of John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy (by whom she had two sons and two daughters[12][13][14][15]), and Sir Thomas Montgomery (d. 2 January 1495) of Faulkbourne, Essex, and daughter of Edward Berkeley (d. March 1506) of Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire, by his wife Christian Holt (d.1468), second daughter and coheir of Richard Holt. By his second wife Lora Berkeley, Ormond had one daughter: Elizabeth Butler[16] (d.1510).[citation needed]

Death & succession Ormond died on 3 August 1515 and was buried in the Mercers' Chapel of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acre in the City of London.[17] As he died without male progeny the barony supposedly created in 1488 fell into abeyance. The Earldom devolved to his heir male and distant cousin Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1467-1539), the grandson of his first cousin Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler (1420-1464) of Polestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland, a grandson of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (c.1359-1405) of Gowran Castle in Ireland.