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Personal data James Butler 2nd Earl of Ormond 

• He was born on October 4, 1331 in Kilkenny, IRELAND.

  Attention: Age at marriage (May 15, 1346) below 16 years (14).

• He died on October 18, 1382 in Knocktopher Castle, Kilkenny, IRELAND, he was 51 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1382 in Gowran Church, Gowran, IRELAND.
• A child of James Boteler and Eleanor de Bohun
• This information was last updated on January 2, 2015.

Household of James Butler 2nd Earl of Ormond

He is married to Elizabeth d'Arcy.

They got married on May 15, 1346, he was 14 years old.

Marriage and issue

On 15 May 1346, he married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Sir John Darcy, Knight of Knaith (another Lord Justice of Ireland) and Joan de Burgh. They had four children:
James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (1376–1405).
Thomas Butler, Justice of Cork.
Eleanor Butler who married Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond. She died in 1404.
Jean Butler who married Teige O'Carroll, Prince of Éile. She died of the plague in 1383.

Child(ren):

1. James Butler  1362-1405 

Notes about James Butler 2nd Earl of Ormond

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James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 October 1331 – 18 October 1382) was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376, and a dominant political leader in Ireland in the 1360s and 1370s.
The son of James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond. James was born at Kilkenny and given in ward, 1 September 1344, to Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, for the fine of 2306 marks; and afterward to Sir John Darcy who married him to his daughter Elizabeth. He was usually called The Noble Earl, being a great-grandson, through his mother, of King Edward I of England.[1]

^ Lodge, John The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, 1789, Vol IV, p 8.
^ Lodge, John The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, 1789, Vol IV, p 9.
Richardson, Douglas, and Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta Ancestry A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Royal ancestry series. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2005. googlebooks Accessed November 9, 2007

Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent Together with Their Paternal Ancestry by Joseph Foster p 39 1884 Edition: 2nd Earl of Ormonde, lord-justice of Ireland 1359-1360, lord-deputy to the lord-lieut. Duke of Clarence 1364, lord-justice 1376, c

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