Genealogie Wylie » Piers Rua Butler , 8th Earl of Ormond qqq (± 1467-1539)

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1. Butler Family History, 7th Edition 1991, by Lord Dunboyne, Kilkenny Castle Book Shop, 13-14
2. Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999, 1680
3. Wikipedia, via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Butle..., 13. Mai 2009

   Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond
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   Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and 1st Earl of Ossory (c. 1467 – 26 August 1539), also known as The Red Piers, was the son of Sir James Butler, of Polestown, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, and Sabh Kavanagh, the daughter of Donel Reagh Mac-Morrough Kavanagh.
   
   Piers was cousin and heir of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde and great-great-grandson of James Butler, the third Earl. On 20 March 1489, King Henry VII appointed him Sheriff of Kilkenny. He was knighted prior to September 1497 and on 28 February 1498 he received a pardon for crimes committed in Ireland, including the murder of James Ormonde, also heir to the Earl of Ormond. He was also made Senechal of the Liberty of Tipperary on 21 June 1505.
   
   On the death of Thomas Butler on 3 August 1515, Piers Butler became the 8th Earl of Ormond. On 6 March 1522, the King appointed him Chief Governor of Ireland as Lord Deputy; he held this office until 13 May 1524 when he became Lord Treasurer.
   
   As the king wanted the Earldom of Ormond for Thomas Boleyn, he induced Piers and his coheirs to resign their claims on 18 February 1528. Five days later, Piers was made Earl of Ossory. On 22 February 1538, the Earldom of Ormond was restored to him.
   
   He died on 26 August 1539 and was buried in the church of St. Canice, Kilkenny.
   
   
   [edit] Family
   In about 1485, he married Lady Margaret FitzGerald, daughter of Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare and Alison Eustace. They had children, including:
   
   Ellice Butler b.1481-d.1530. Married 1503 Lord Gerald Fitzgerald of Decies b.1482-d.1533-grandson of James FitzGerald, 6th Earl of Desmond (d. 1463)
   James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond (b.c.1501-1546), married Lady Joan FitzGerald, daughter and heiress of 11th Earl of Desmond, and had issue.
   Catherine Butler {b.1506-d.1552/53} married Richard Lord Le Poer;parents of Lord John Le Poer-husband of Ellen, daugther of James 14th Earl of Desmond
   Helen Butler (b.1523-1597), married Donough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond, son of Conor O'Brien, Prince of Thomond and Annabell de Burgh
   Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret (b. 1539), married Eleanor Butler, daughter of Theobald Butler, had issue.
   Margaret Butler, married Barnaby FitzPatrick, 1st Lord of Upper Ossory and had issue.[citation needed]
   Joan Butler (b. b 1528), married James Butler, 2nd Baron Dunboyne son of Edmund Butler, 1st Baron Dunboyne and Julia MacCarthy and had issue.
   
   [edit] References
   The Lineage and Ancestry of H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales Edinburgh, by Gerald Paget (1977)
   Peerage of Ireland
   Preceded by
   New creation Earl of Ossory
   1528–1539 Succeeded by
   James Butler
   Preceded by
   Thomas Butler Earl of Ormond
   1538–1539
   
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   ID: I08967
   Name: Piers BUTLER , 8th Earl of Ormond 1 2
   Sex: M
   Birth: ABT 1467 in Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland
   Death: 26 AUG 1539 in Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
   Burial: St Canice Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland
   Note:
   BUTLER FAMILY HISTORY
   
   [The 7th Earl of Ormond, known as "The Earl of Wool" had two daughters, one of whom married Thomas Boleyn and became mother of Anne Boleyn, wife of Henry VIII and mother of Elizabeth I. When he died the Earldom was passed to a cousin, although much of the land & wealth went to his 2 daughters and their husbands.]
   
   The earldom of Ormond then passed to his heir male, "Red Piers", great grandson of Sir Richard Butler of Knocktopher.....
   
   Piers and his wife, Margaret FitzGerald, daughter of the 8th Earl of Kildare, were a determined couple. In the early years of their marriage they were reduced to penury by Sir James Ormond, the ambitious agent, and bastard nephew, of the absentee Earl of Wool. Such was their plight, according to Stanihurst, that they were forced to lurk in the woods where "the noble woman, being great with child and upon necessity constrained to use a spare diet (for her only substance was milk) she longed sore for wine and calling her lord and a trusty servant of his, James White, unto her, she requested them both to help her to some wine...."Truly, Margaret", quoth Sir Pierce, "Thou shalt have store of wine within this four and twenty hours, or else thou shalt feed alone on milk for me". The next day following Pierce, having intelligence that his enemy, the base Butler, would have travelled from Donmore to Kilkenny, notwithstanding he were accompanied with six horsemen, yet Pierce having none but his lackey, did forestal him in the way, and with a courageous charge gored the bastard through with his spear".
   
   Piers himself then became Ormond's agent and presumably Margaret got her wine. But it required all his pertinacity to get himself recognised as the true heir to the earldom. The existence of two elder brothers would have been an insuperable stumbling block, had not both of them been born before their parents had received the necessary papal dispensation for marriage. Then there was the Boleyn bombshell. In 1529 Henry created Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Ormond, after making Red Piers, who had been governor of Ireland, Earl of Ossory. But ten years later, after the Boleyns had fallen from favour, Piers emerged from the interlude with two Earldoms and died the next year in 1539. He was the first of the earls of Ormond to be buried in St Canice's Cathedral. He and his formidable Countess, "a ladie of such port that all estates of the realm crouch unto her", are recorded as having founded Kilkenny College "out of which schoole have sprouted such proper ympes" and as having "planted great civility in the countyes of Tipperary and Kilkenny and, to give a good example to the people of that country, brought out of Flanders and other countryes, Artificers who...made Diaper, Tapistry Turkey-Carpetts, cushions and other like works."
   
   Red Piers was succeeded in his earldoms of Ormond and Ossory by his 35-year-old eldest son, James the Lame. [Butler Family History]
   
   
   
   
   
   Father: James BUTLER , Sir b: ABT 1437 in Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland
   Mother: Sarah KAVANAGH b: ABT 1440 in Ireland
   
   Marriage 1 Margaret FITZGERALD b: ABT 1480 in Castletown, Kildrought, Kildare, Ireland
   Children
   Thomas BUTLER , of Dedham b: 1498 in Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland
   
   Sources:
   Title: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley Editor-in-Chief, 1999
   Page: 1680
   Title: Butler Family History, 7th Edition 1991, by Lord Dunboyne, Kilkenny Castle Book Shop
   Page: 13-14

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   The Butler Lordship
   
   Tomb of Piers Butler and Margaret Fitzgerald Double tomb of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Fitzgerald in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
   Kilkenny County Library Photographic Collection
   Tomb of Piers Butler and Margaret Fitzgerald
   Kilkenny County Library Photographic Collection
   Tomb of Piers Butler and Margaret Fitzgerald Double tomb of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Fitzgerald in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny
   Kilkenny County Library Photographic Collection
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   James, 9th Earl of Ormond (Seamus Bacach)James, 9th Earl of Ormond painted by Holbien the Younger
   Kilkenny County Library Stock
   James, 9th Earl of Ormond (Seamus Bacach)
   Kilkenny County Library Stock
   James, 9th Earl of Ormond (Seamus Bacach)James, 9th Earl of Ormond painted by Holbien the Younger
   Kilkenny County Library Stock
   Enlarge image1391 James Butler, third Earl of Ormond buys Kilkenny Castle
   
   1394 King Richard II in Kilkenny. The Earl of Ormond, a fluent Irish speaker, is his chief adviser.
   
   1461 James Butler, fifth Earl of Ormond is executed after the battle of Towton in England, where Edward IV defeats Henry VI and takes his place as King of England.
   
   1461 The dead earl's brother Sir John Butler is defeated at the battle of Piltown, in South Kilkenny by the Earl of Desmond, a supporter of Edward IV. The town of Kilkenny supplied men for the Butler army and lost their rights as a result.
   
   1466 Act of Parliament restoring the rights of Sovereign, William Archer, and to the Burgesses of Kilkenny.
   
   1515 Thomas, 7th Earl of Ormonde dies. After his death Sir Piers Rua Butler becomes the chief power in Ormond, but does not get the title of 8th Earl until 1538
   
   1536 Henry VIII declared Supreme Head of the Church in Ireland
   
   1540 St. Francis Abbey and St. John's Priory suppressed
   
   1543 Black Abbey suppressed
   
   1546 James 9th Earl of Ormond (Séamus Bacach) poisoned at a feast at Holborn in London.
   
   1564 A great flood in which St. John's Bridge and Castle fell down.
   
   
   Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
   Kilkenny County Library Stock1565 Thomas 10th Earl of Ormond (Tomás Dubh) defeats the Earl of Desmond at Affane - the last 'private' battle between noblemen in Ireland. Both earls were brought to London and reprimanded, but only Desmond was imprisoned in the Tower of London.
   
   1569 The Earl's brothers revolt against the crown. Kilkenny is besieged for some days, but survives.
   
   1579 Earl Thomas made Lord General of the army in Munster to deal with the rebellion of he Earl of Desmond.
   
   1582 The Shee Alnshouse in Rose Inn Street is founded by Sir Richard Shee.

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• Sterbedatum 26. August 1539

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