Elizabeth Butler

Abt 1420 - Abt 1473  (~ 53 years)

• Name	Elizabeth Butler  [1]
  Birth	Abt 1420	Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1473  [1]
  Person ID	I1211	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	13 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	James Butler,   b. Abt 1390, Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland d. Abt 1452 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Beauchamp   d. Abt 1430
  Marriage	England
  Family ID	F322	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Talbot,   b. Abt 1413, England d. 10 Jul 1460, England (Age ~ 47 years)
  Marriage	Abt May 1444	England
  Children	1. Gilbert Talbot,   b. Abt 1452, Worcestershire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F311	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Jul 2011

  
  

• Photos

  Butler Coat of Arms

  
  

• Notes

  Elizabeth Butler was a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun (himself a descendant of Magna Charta Surety Henry De Bohun) who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou-Plantagent (Kings of England). Carrick-on-Suir (originally called Carrig Mac Griffin) was formed on an island settlement upstream of Waterford. (The town remained as an island until the 18th century, when small rivers were diverted to form dry land north and west of the town).The earliest known records of a settlement are dated to 1247, when a charter of 3 fairs per year was awarded to Matthew Fitzgriffin, Lord of the manor of Carrick, and a member of the Hiberno-Norman nobility. By the early 14th century, Carrick Mac Griffin had become home to a prosperous Hiberno-Norman family - the Butlers. The first significant leader of the Butler clan, Edmond Butler (a.k.a. Edmund le Bottilier) was created Earl of Carrick in 1315. However, his son James did not inherit the title. Instead, 7 years after the death of his father, he was created Earl of Ormond in his own right. In 1447, Edmund MacRichard Butler founded the first bridge over the estuary at Carrick-on-Suir. Other notable members of the Butler clan were Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond (a.k.a. Black Tom) who built the Tudor Manor House extension to Ormonde Castle and James the 12th Earl and 1st Duke of Ormond, who founded the town's woollen industry in 1670. Edmond le Bottiler erected two large, heavily garrisoned castle keeps named the Plantagenet Castle on the north bank of the Suir, just east of what is now Main St. In the 15th century, a four towered castle was erected on the same site, two of which are now incorporated into the Elizabethan Manor House built by Black Tom Butler, c. 1560. [3, 4]

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), p55ff (Reliability: 3). The Ancestry of Grace (Chetwood) Bulkeley [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), p55ff (Reliability: 3). [S364] Frederick Lewis Weis and Arthur Adams, Magna Charta Sureties, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999). [S535] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrick-on-Suir (Reliability: 3).