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William de Beauchamp
Baron Bergavenny
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Sir William Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, KG
Born c. 1343
Died 8 May 1411 (aged 67-68)
Noble family Beauchamp
Spouse(s) Lady Joan FitzAlan
(m. 1392-1411; his death)

Issue
Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester
Joan Butler, Countess of Ormond

Father Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
Mother Katherine Mortimer

William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, KG (c. 1343 - 8 May 1411) was an English peer.

Beauchamp was the fourth son of Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick, and Katherine Mortimer. He served under Sir John Chandos during the Hundred Years' War, and was created a Knight of the Garter in 1376. He served as Captain of Calais in 1383.[1]

Upon the death of his first cousin once removed, John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke on 30 December 1389, William inherited the lordship of Abergavenny, including Abergavenny Castle.[1] He was summoned to Parliament on 23 July 1392 as "Willilmo Beauchamp de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have become Baron Bergavenny, a barony by writ.[2] In 1399, he was appointed Justiciar of South Wales and Governor of Pembroke.[3] He entailed the castle and Honour of Abergavenny on the issue male of his body, with remainder to his brother Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick and his heirs male; his wife enjoyed it in dower until her death in 1435. Bergavenny died in 1411 and was buried at Black Friars, Hereford.[4]

Marriage and offspring
Bergavenny married Lady Joan FitzAlan, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, and Elizabeth de Bohun, and they had the following children:

Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (bef. 1397 - 1422), married Isabel le Despenser, daughter of Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester and Constance of York, by whom he had one daughter Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny.
Joan de Beauchamp (1396 - 3 August 1430), married 28 August 1413 James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond and Anne Welles, by whom she had five children, including Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. Anne Boleyn and Mary Boleyn were notable descendants.

Family/Spouse: Joan FitzAlan. Joan (daughter of Richard FitzAlan and Elizabeth de Bohun) was born in 1375; died on 14 Nov 1435. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan de Beauchamp
Countess of Ormond
Born 1396
Died 3 or 5 August 1430 (aged 33-34)
Buried Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre, London
Noble family Beauchamp
Spouse(s) James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond

Issue
James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond
John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond
Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Shrewsbury
Anne Butler

Father William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny
Mother Lady Joan FitzAlan

Joan Beauchamp, Countess of Ormond (1396 - 3 or 5 August 1430) was the first wife of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, and the mother of his five children. Their principal residence was Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.

Joan de Beauchamp was the daughter of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny and his first wife, Lady Joan FitzAlan. She had a brother and sister:[1]

Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1397 - 18 March 1422), who married Lady Isabel le Despenser (27 July 1400 - 26 or 27 December 1439), by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny.[2]
Elizabeth de Beauchamp.[1]
Joan's paternal grandparents were Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick and Lady Katherine Mortimer, and her maternal grandparents were Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel and Elizabeth de Bohun.

Joan de Beauchamp died 3 or 5 August 1430, and was buried in the Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre, London.[3]

Marriage and issue
She married, before 28 August 1413, James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by whom she had three sons and two daughters:[3]

James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, who died without legitimate issue.
John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, who died without legitimate issue.
Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, whose daughter Margaret was a grandmother of Anne Boleyn.
Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and had issue.
Anne Butler, who died unmarried.

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Family/Spouse: Jamesle Boteler. Jamesle (son of Jamesle Boteler and Anne Welles) was born on 23 May 1393; died on 23 Aug 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

Birth:
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Family/Spouse: Anne Hankford. Anne was born in 1431; died in 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Lady Margaret Butler
Lady Boleyn
Born c. 1454
Kilkenny Castle, County Kilkenny, Ireland
Died 1539 (aged 84-85)
England
Noble family Butler
Spouse(s) Sir William Boleyn

Issue
Anne Boleyn
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire
John Boleyn
Anthony Boleyn
Jane Boleyn
Alice Boleyn
Margaret Boleyn
William Boleyn
James Boleyn
Edward Boleyn
Father Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond
Mother Anne Hankford

Lady Margaret Butler, Lady Boleyn[2] (c. 1454 [3] - 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn, was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, and great-grandmother of Anne and Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I of England.

Life
She was born at Kilkenny Castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond and Anne Hankford. Her paternal grandparents were James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond and Joan de Beauchamp. Her maternal grandparents were Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 - 1431) and Anne de Montagu.

She had two sisters: Anne who married Sir James de St. Leger, by whom she had issue, and Elizabeth. Anne and Margaret claimed to be co-heiresses of their father and the Earldom of Ormond, but their cousin, Piers Butler, who had physical control of the Irish estates and the backing of the Irish Council, claimed to be the heir through the direct male line. In 1520, the King granted her a pardon for the alienation of Fritwell Manor, Oxfordshire.[4] The issue wasn't resolved until 1528, by which time Margaret's position was good, with the influence of her granddaughter, then betrothed to Henry VIII, and Margaret's son, Thomas Boleyn's, status as King's adviser.[5]

In 1465 Margaret married Sir William Boleyn, and in total they had ten children. Her son, the ambitious courtier Sir Thomas Boleyn, became the first Earl of Wiltshire and by his marriage to Elizabeth Howard, the Duke of Norfolk's daughter, was the father of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England. Thus, Margaret was great-grandmother to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

Margarets role in the rise and fall of the Boleyn clan is unknown, although there has been much speculation and theorizing.[citation needed]

She was the last of the Boleyns to live in Hever Castle as it was given to Anne of Cleves in 1540 sometime after her death. Margaret's lands were claimed by her only surviving grandchild, Mary Boleyn and her husband William Stafford.[6]

Issue
Name Birth Death Notes
Anne 18 November 1475 6 January 1555 married John Shelton; had issue
Thomas, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde c. 1477 12 March 1539 married Lady Elizabeth Howard; had issue, including Queen Anne Boleyn
John 1481 1484
Anthony 1483 30 September 1493
Jane c. 1485 unknown married Sir Philip Calthorpe
Alice c. 1487 1538 married Robert Clere
Margaret c. 1489 unknown married John Sackville, Esq.
William c. 1491 18 December 1571
James c. 1493 5 December 1561 married Elizabeth Wood
Edward c. 1496 unknown married Anne Tempest


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Family/Spouse: Sir William Boleyn. William was born about 1451; died in 1505. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]