James Butler, Earl of Ormond

1305 - 1338  (32 years)

• Name	James Butler
  	He was the first Earl of Ormonde. [4]
  Birth	possibly 18 Mar 1305	Ireland   [1, 2, 3]
  Father: Edmund le Boteler (1268-1321) Mother: Joan FitzGerald (c1282-1320) [2, 3]
  Title(s)	Oct 1328 (23 years)  [1, 3]
  He was created the 1st Earl of Ormond.
  Death	16 Feb 1338	Gowran Castle, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland   [2, 3]
  Burial	St. Mary's Collegiate Church Gowran, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland   [2]
  	Effigies of James le Butler and Eleanor de Bohun at Gowran Church, County Kilkenny
  Person ID, Branch	I23079
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2020

  
  

  Spouse / Partner	Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond,   b. 17 Oct 1304   d. 7 Oct 1363, Vachery Manor, Cranleigh, Surrey, England (Age 58 years)  [1, 2, 3, 4]  Other Partners: Thomas, Lord Dagworth  m. 24 Jan 1344
  Marriage	Feb 1328 to 21 Nov 1328  [1, 2, 3]
  Issue: 1. James Butler (1331-1382) 2. Petronilla Bulter [3]
  Age at Marriage	He : 22 years and 11 months - She : 23 years and 4 months.
  Notes	John Lodge, in his 1754 Peerage of Ireland, which Complete Peerage follows, provides no source for his marriage date of 1327, and the Patent Rolls show Eleanor was unmarried as late as February 1328. [1]
  Family ID	F7881	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Aug 2020

  
  

• Pedigree

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• Event Map		Birth - possibly 18 Mar 1305 - Ireland Death - 16 Feb 1338 - Gowran Castle, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland Burial - - St. Mary's Collegiate Church Gowran, Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

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• Sources 🟢 Primary Evidence 🟡 Secondary Evidence 🟠 Tertiary Evidence 🔴 Unreliable Evidence

  [S1875] Verity, Brad. "The Children of Elizabeth, Countess of Hereford, Daughter of Edward I of England", (Vowchurch, UK: Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, volume 6, 2014). [S1922] Verity, Brad. "Descendants to the Third Generation of Eleanor, Countess of Ormond (c.1310-1363)", (Vowchurch, UK: Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, Volume 8, 2016). [S59] Weis, Frederick Lewis. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 Fifth Editionif, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1982). [S304] Wikipedia. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford