James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde

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James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde (* around 1359 , † September 7, 1405 in Gowran Castle ) was a nobleman of the Peerage of Ireland . He was a great-great-grandson of King Edward I.

Life

When his father James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde died in 1382, he inherited his title of nobility. Three years later he built Gowran Castle . Gowran Castle, which was near the center of Gowran , became his main residence, from which he was nicknamed The Earl of Gowran .

In 1391 he bought Kilkenny Castle from Baron le Despencer , who had sold the castle on behalf of the English crown. He later had Dunfert Castle built and in 1386 founded a monastery in Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire .

From 1384 he was the deputy of Sir Philip Courtenay , who was Lieutenant of Ireland . Butler was now Governor of Ireland . When there was a dispute between Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay and Richard II , Butler sided with Richard II. This was followed by an uprising against Richard II, which is why he was forced to send a clientele under the banner of his friend Robert de Vere, Duke of Ireland, and put down the uprising. The clientele was led by John Stanley I , accompanied by Bishop Alexander de Balscot and Sir Robert Crull . Butler joined this clientele after it arrived in Ireland. Client success was based on the appointment of John Stanley as Lieutenant of Ireland, the appointment of Alexander de Balscot as Chancellor and the reappointment of Butler as Governor. On July 25, 1392 and 1401 he was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland . After Sir Stephen Scrope's departure for England on October 26, 1404, Butler was appointed provisional Keeper of Peace and Governor of Kilkenny and Tipperary Counties . With all his might he accepted this office, carried it out and kept it. In 1397 Butler helped Lord Lieutenant Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, in a dispute against O'Brien and took Teige O'Carrol, the Prince of Elye, prisoner.

Butler died at Gowran Castle in 1405 and was buried in St. Mary's Collegiate Church in Gowran, where his father, grandfather James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde and great-grandfather Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick are also buried.

Marriage and children

Before June 17, 1386 he married Anne Welles (around 1360-1397), the daughter of John de Welles, 4th Baron Welles . Together they had five children:

In 1399 he married again, this time Katherine FitzGerald of Desmond . He also had four children with her:

  • James "Gallda" Butler
  • Edmund Butler
  • Gerald Butler
  • Theobald Butler

Butler also had an illegitimate son named Thomas Le Boteller .

literature

  • Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Royal ancestry series. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2005. googlebooks.com
  • James William Edmund Doyle: The Official Baronage of England, Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations. London: Longmans, Green, 1886. googlebooks.com
  • thepeerage.com

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Borsay, Lindsay J. Proudfoot: Provincial Towns in Early Modern England and Ireland: Change, Convergence, and Divergence . New York 2002, ISBN 0-19-726248-1 , pp. 31 .
  2. ^ Butler Castle. (No longer available online.) Kilkenny Castle, archived from the original on November 15, 2017 ; accessed on June 8, 2018 .
  3. ^ John Lodge The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom , 1789, Vol IV, page 10.
  4. ^ Rolls of 9 Richard II- Part I Membrane 1, cont. June 18, 1386; Westminister {as before Membrane 6}, page 163. See also: Peter Crooks. The 'Calculus of Faction' And Richard II's Duchy of Ireland, September 1382 , V, ed. Nigel Saul. Woodbridge: England: The Boydel Press, 2008. 94-115; ISBN = 978-1-84383-387-1.
  5. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls 1385-9. 125-6, 128, 130-31
  6. ^ A History of St. Mary's Church; Imelda Kehoe; Gowran Development Association; 1992
predecessor Office successor
James Butler Earl of Ormonde
1382-1405 		James Butler
personal data
SURNAME Butler, James, 3rd Earl of Ormonde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish Earl
DATE OF BIRTH around 1359
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1405
Place of death Gowran Castle