1. | James Butler was born about 1331 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland (son of James Butler and Eleanor de Bohun); died about 1382. Notes: James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 Oct 1331 - 18 Oct 1382) was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376. He was given in ward 1 Sep 1344, to Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, for the fine of 2306 marcs and afterward to Sir John Darcy who married him to his daughter Elizabeth. He was usually called The Noble Earl, being a great-grandson of King Edward I of England. He died 18 October 1382 in his castle of Knocktopher (near which he had, in 1356, founded a Friary for Carmelite friars). He was buried in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny. James married Elizabeth DarcyEngland. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children:
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2. | James Butler was born about 1305 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1338 in Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Notes: James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (c.1305- 6 Jan 1338 in Gowran, County Kilkenny), was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was the son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, Justiciar of Ireland, (1268 - 13 Sep 1321) and Joan FitzGerald, Countess of Carrick. Upon his father's death in 1321, the only hereditary title that James held was that of Chief Butler Of Ireland. A gap of 7 years was to follow before James was rewarded for his loyalty to the Crown with an earldom in his own right. His benefactor, King Edward III created him the 1st Earl of Ormond by patent, bearing date 2 Nov 1328 at Salisbury. In 1336 he founded the friary of Carrick-Begg (a townland on the River Suir opposite Carrick-on-Suir) for Franciscan Friars. On 3 Jun 1336 he gave the friars his castle and estate of Carrick. He married in 1327, Lady Eleanor de Bohun, (17 Oct 1304 - 7 Oct 1363) daughter of Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford by his spouse Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan, the eight daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. James married Eleanor de Bohun about 1327 in England. Eleanor (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Elizabeth Plantagenet) was born on 17 Oct 1304 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England; died about 1363 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
3. | Eleanor de Bohun was born on 17 Oct 1304 in Knaresborough Castle, Yorkshire, England (daughter of Humphrey de Bohun and Elizabeth Plantagenet); died about 1363 in England. Notes: Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (17 Oct 1304 - 7 Oct 1363) was an English noblewoman born in Knaresborough Castle to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. After the deaths of her parents, she was placed in the care of her aunt Mary Plantagenet and brought up at Amesbury Priory. Eleanor was married twice; first in 1327 to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, (son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and Lady Joan FitzGerald) who died in 1337 and secondly, in 1343, to Thomas de Dagworth who was killed in Brittany in 1352. By her first marriage, Eleanor was an ancestor of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr, Queen consorts of King Henry VIII of England. Other descendants include the dukes of Beaufort, Newcastle, Norfolk, earls of Ormond, Desmond, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Rochester, Sandwich, Arundel, and Stafford.
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6. | Humphrey de Bohun was born about 1276 in England (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud de Fienes); died on 16 Mar 1322 in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England. Notes: Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex (Abt 1276 - 16 Mar 1321/2) was a Magna Charta Surety and a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman family of the Welsh Marches* and was one of the Ordainers who opposed Edward II's excesses. He succeeded his father as Earl of Hereford and Earl of Essex, and Constable of England. and he held the title of Bearer of the Swan Badge, a heraldic device passed down in the Bohun family. He was married to Elizabeth Plantagenet of Rhuddlan about 1302 and they had an unknown number of children, possibly ten. He was slain at Boroughbridge 16 Mar 1321/2 - Magna Charta Sureties, 1215 In 1322, the Battle of Boroughbridge took place as King Edward II overpowered Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, bringing about the end of Edward II's retaliation against those who had opposed him in the Despenser War of 1320-1321 *The Welsh Marches (Welsh: Y Mers) is a term which, in modern usage, denotes an imprecisely defined area along and around the border between England and Wales in the United Kingdom. The precise meaning of the term has varied at different periods. The English terms Welsh March, The March of Wales, in Medieval Latin Marchia Walliae, were originally used in the Middle Ages to denote a more precisely defined territory, the marches between England and the Principality of Wales, in which Marcher lords had specific rights, held, to some extent, independently of the king of England. Humphrey married Elizabeth Plantagenet about 1302 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet and Leanor of Castile) was born on 7 Aug 1282; died on 5 May 1316 in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
7. | Elizabeth Plantagenet was born on 7 Aug 1282 (daughter of Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet and Leanor of Castile); died on 5 May 1316 in England. Notes: Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (7 Aug 1282 - 5 May 1316) was the eighth daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. First marriage In April 1285 there were negotiations with Floris V for Elizabeth's betrothal to his son John I, Count of Holland. The offer was accepted and John was sent to England to be educated. On 8 Jan 1297 Elizabeth was married to John at Ipswich. In attendance at the marriage were Elizabeth's sister Margaret, her father, Edward I of England, her brother Edward, and Humphrey de Bohun. After the wedding Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. It was later decided Elizabeth should follow her husband so she and her father traveled through the Southern Netherlands between Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven and Brussels, before ending up in Ghent. On 10 Nov 1299, John died of dysentery. No children had been born from the marriage. Second marriage On 14 November 1302 Elizabeth was married to Humphrey de Bohun at Westminster Abbey.
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12. | Humphrey de Bohun was born about 1249 in England (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Eleanor de Braiose); died on 31 Dec 1298 in Pleshy, England. Notes: Humphrey b. 1249 lives in history as one of the recalcitrant barons of the year 1297, who extorted from Edward I the Conffrmalio Cartarum. Humphrey married Maud de Fienes about 1275 in England. Maud and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
13. | Maud de Fienes and died.
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14. | Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England (son of Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanore of Provence); died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. Notes: Edward I House of Plantagenet, King of England 1272-1307 Known as "Longshanks" for his extraordinary height, Edward, son of King Henry III, was a strong-willed, militaristic king who succeeded in subduing Wales but failed to conquer Scotland. He made significant changes to feudal law, strengthening both the Crown and Parliament at the cost of the old nobility. Edward Longshanks was a statesman, lawyer and soldier. He formed the Model Parliament in 1295, bringing together the knights, clergy, nobility and burgesses of the cities, bringing Lords and Commons together for the first time. Aiming at a united Britain, he defeated the Welsh chieftains and desgnated his eldest son Prince of Wales. Edward married Leanor of Castile on 1 Nov 1254 in Abbey of Santa Mar. was born about 1241 in Kingdom of Castile, Hispania; died about 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
15. | Leanor of Castile was born about 1241 in Kingdom of Castile, Hispania; died about 1290 in Harby, Nottinghamshire, England. Notes: Eleanor of Castile (Abt 1241 - 28 Nov 1290) was the first queen consort of Edward I of England. She was also Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband. Eleanor was born in Castile [Hispania] daughter of Saint Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon and his second wife, Joan, Countess of Ponthieu. Her Castilian name, Leonor, became Alienor or Alianor in England, and Eleanor in modern English. She was the second of five children born to Fernando and Jeanne. Her elder brother Fernando was born in 1239/40, her younger brother Louis in 1242/43; two sons born after Louis died young. For the ceremonies in 1291 marking the first anniversary of Eleanor's death, 49 candlebearers were paid to walk in the public procession to commemorate each year of her life. This would date her birth to the year 1241.
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