• John Butler, Earl of Gowran (1643–1677) was an MP in the Irish Parliament 1661–1666 before being created Earl of Gowran in 1676. He married but died childless...
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    History of St. Mary’s Church. Text by Imelda Kehoe. Published by the Gowran Development Association 1992 Webb. Alfred. "Butler, James, 3rd Earl of Ormond"...
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  • son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran (1643–1677), seventh son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde John Butler, 12th...
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    FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (19 October 1610 – 21 July 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from...
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    (1420–1461) John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond (1422–1478) Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (c. 1426–1515) Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 1st Earl of Ormond...
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  • and died in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland. James Butler was the son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, (1268 – 13 September 1321), Justiciar of Ireland and...
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    Richard Butler, 1st Earl of Arran (1639–1686) was Lord Deputy of Ireland from 1682 to 1684 while James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, his father, the Lord...
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    Chichester (died 1697) who married firstly John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran and secondly Francis Aungier, 1st Earl of Longford. Lord Donegall died after a short...
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  • James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (c. 1359 – 7 September 1405), was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He acceded to the title in 1382, and built Gowran Castle...
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    Ormond earldom between his father, Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, and Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. Butler died from poison in London. James was...
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    widow of John Butler, 1st Earl of Gowran. He had no children and was succeeded by special remainder in his titles by his brother Ambrose. History of Parliament...
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    priests in St. Mary’s Church Gowran to celebrate masses forever, for himself, his wife Joan, his son, James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde, his daughters and...
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    Geraldines". She married Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, by whom she had three sons and six daughters. In 1501, she rebuilt Gowran Castle. In 1502, she also...
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    the Kings of Gowran. Edward the Bruce with his army of Scots and Ulstermen took the town in 1316. James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde built Gowran Castle in...
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  • of Ireland, and had issue. Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and 1st Earl of Ossory (1467-1539), also known as (Irish Piers Ruadh) Red Piers. Butler dynasty...
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  • Butler of Polestown, (1595 - 21 April 1636), was a descendant of the Butler family - the Earls of Ormond. He was the eldest son of Walter Butler of Poletown...
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    Kilkenny, Ireland, a grandson of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (c. 1359 – 1405) of Gowran Castle in Ireland. Butler dynasty Blazoned as Gules, three...
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  • Edmund Butler (died 1321), 6th Chief Butler of Ireland and nominally Earl of Carrick, was an Irish magnate who served as Justiciar of Ireland during the...
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    the Norman invasion. They originally settled in Gowran where James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond built Gowran Castle in 1385. The family had become wealthy...
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  • John Butler, 17th Earl of Ormonde, 10th Earl of Ossory (1740–1795) was an Irish peer and Member of Parliament (MP). He became a Protestant in 1764. He...
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  • James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond. Elizabeth Darcy was born on 3 April 1332 at Platten, County Meath, Ireland, the daughter of Sir John Darcy, 1st Baron...
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  • mother of Richard FitzPatrick, 1st Baron Gowran, who was a son or grandson of Andrew Fitzpatrick of castle Fleming. Dunboyne 1968, pp. 16–17. "Butler Family...
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    Duke of York John (1643–1677), became the Earl of Gowran Mary (1646–1710), married William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire As a consequence of the marriage...
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    was created the Earl of Bessborough in 1739, and his first wife, Sarah Margetson Colvill. He was the grandson of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon...
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    of Plantagenet John FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Desmond (died 1399) (son of preceding), grandson of James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, and descendant of Edward...
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  • tradition of public service. Through his mother he was a first cousin of Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain...
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    Clavering-Cowper, 2nd Earl Cowper leighrayment.com Peerage: Cowper to Cutts of Gowran[usurped] L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct...
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  • Anne Butler, Countess of Ormond (née Welles; 1360 – 13 November 1397), was the first wife of Irish noble James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, and the mother...
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  • probably born at Gowran Castle on 25 March 1734. On 20 March 1760, James married Lucia Martin, daughter of John Martin and widow of Henry Boyle-Walsingham...
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    Elizabeth, Lady Thurles (category Butler dynasty)
    known as Lady Thurles, was the mother of the Irish statesman and Royalist commander James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde. Elizabeth was born in 1587 at...
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