Sir Thomas Butler

Abt 1425 - 1515  (~ 90 years)

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• Name	Thomas Butler  [1]
  Title	Sir
  Born	Abt 1425
  	Butler-840
  Gender	Male
  Reference Number	8060
  Died	3 Aug 1515
  Person ID	I8060	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Jamesle Boteler,   b. 23 May 1393,   d. 23 Aug 1452  (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Joan Beauchamp,   b. 1396,   d. 3 Aug 1430  (Age 34 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2404	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Hankford,   b. 1431,   d. 1485  (Age 54 years)
  Children	+ 1. Margaret Butler,   b. Abt 1454,   d. 1539  (Age ~ 85 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2386	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond Born 1426 Kilkenny, Ireland Died 3 August 1515 (aged 88-89) London, England Buried Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre, London Spouse(s) Anne Hankford Lora Berkeley Issue Anne Butler Margaret Butler Elizabeth Butler Father James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond Mother Joan de Beauchamp 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 Bench end in Monkleigh Church, Devon (parish church of Annery) showing the Ormonde knot and arms of Butler: Gules, three covered cups or,[2] both displayed on escutcheons within Gothic cusped lancet arches 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S808] Magna Carta Ancestry: A study in Colonial and Medieval Families Vol 1, Douglas Richardson, (Date: 2011;).