James Butler

Aft 1361 - Abt 1405  (~ 43 years)

• Name	James Butler  [1]
  Birth	Aft 1361	Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1405  [1]
  Person ID	I1234	Cooley Miller Sears Barnhouse
  Last Modified	12 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	James Butler,   b. Abt 1331, Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland d. Abt 1382 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Darcy   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	England
  Family ID	F324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Welles   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	England
  Children	1. James Butler,   b. Abt 1390, Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland d. Abt 1452 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Family ID	F323	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2011

  
  

• Photos

  Butler Coat of Arms

  
  

• Notes

  James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (b. before 1376 - died 7 September 1405), was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He acceded to the title in 1382 and built Gowran Castle three years later making it his usual residence, whence his common epithet, The Earl of Gowran. In 1391 he purchased Kilkenny Castle by deed from Sir Hugh le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester and Isabel his wife, daughter of Gilbert de Clare. He also built the castle of Dunfert (also called Danefort) and in 1386 founded a Friary of minorities at Ailesbury in Buckinghamshire. In 1384 he was deputy to Philip deCourtenay, the King's cousin. In 25 July 1392, he was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland as he was again in 1401. On the departure of Sir Stephen Scrope to England on 26 October 1404, by commission, dated at Carlow, 12 February 1388-9, he was appointed keeper of the peace and governor of counties Kilkenny and Tipperary. He was vested with full power to treat with, to execute, to protect, and to give safe conduct to any rebels, etc. In 1397 he assisted Edmond Earl of March, L.L. against O Brien, and in 1390 took prisoner Teige O Carrol, Prince of Elye. James Butler b. after 1361 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-Plantagenet (Kings of England) [1, 2, 3] (Research):Later research shows that there was no English Earl of Ormond. There was a Scottish Earl of Ormond and an Irish Earl of Ormond, both historically existing much later than the Butlers in Bulkeley. Marriage and issue Some time before 17 June 1386, he married Anne Welles, the daughter of John de Welles, 4th Lord Welles by his spouse Maud (n

  
  

• Sources

  [S29] Donald Lines Jacobus, M.A., Bulkeley **main, (New Haven, Connecticut, 1933), pp82-83 (Reliability: 3). [S364] Frederick Lewis Weis and Arthur Adams, Magna Charta Sureties, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1999). [S535] Wikipedia.