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Personal data Thomas BOTELER 

• He was born in the year 1427 in Ormonde, Kerry, Ireland.
• Title: 7th Earl of Ormond
• (Alternative Name) : Le Botiller.
• (Nickname) : "The Wool Earl".
• He died on August 3, 1515 in London, Middlesex, he was 88 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1515 in St Thomas Acon, London, Middlesex.
• A child of James IV BOTELER and Joan BEAUCHAMP

Household of Thomas BOTELER

(1) He is married to Anne HANKFORD.

They got married on July 11, 1445 at London, Middlesex, he was 18 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Anne BOTELER  1462-1533 
2. Margaret BOTELER  1465-1537 

(2) He is married to Lora BERKELEY.

They got married November 1496 at London, Middlesex, he was 69 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth BOTELER  ± 1497-1510

Notes about Thomas BOTELER

third son THOMAS became 7th Earl of Ormond, 13th Chief Butler (died 1515) in 1489 under King Henry VII and was one of the wealthiest of the King’s subjects; he had 2 daughters: the son of one inheriting 36 manors in England; the other married Sir William Boleyn, and their son, Thomas Boleyn had a daughter Ann Boleyn who married King Henry VIII and had a daughter, Elizabeth, who became Queen Elizabeth I. Thomas Boleyn was made Earl of Ormonde in 1527 but the Peerage returned to kinsman, Piers Butler 8th Earl, when Ann and her brother were beheaded in 1536.
SOURCE: http://butlergenealogyireland.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/the-butler-pedigree.html

Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, P.C. (1426 - 3 August, 1515) was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII' s first Parliament in November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by Edward IV, which declared him and his brothers traitors, were abrogated.

Thomas Butler was the third son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by his first wife, Joan de Beauchamp (d. 3 or 5 August 1430). He had two elder brothers, James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, as well as two sisters, Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury, and Anne Butler (d. 4 January 1435), who was contracted to marry Thomas FitzGerald, 7th Earl of Desmond, although the marriage appears not to have taken place.

Career
Thomas Butler, as an Irish peer, should only have sat in the Irish Parliament. However, as a personal friend of Henry VII he was summoned to the English Parliament in November 1488 as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford chevaler". At this time he was already 8th Earl of Carrick and 7th Earl of Ormond, having succeeded his elder brothers James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond, neither of whom left legitimate issue.

He was afterwards sworn of the Privy Council of England.

He was known as The Wool Earl, due to his enormous wealth. Besides being in the possession of major lands in the Irish counties of Kilkenny and Tipperary, he owned 72 manors in England, making him one of the richest subjects in the realm.

In 1509, he was appointed Lord Chamberlain to Catherine of Aragon. He held this post until 1512.

Marriage and progeny
He married twice:

Firstly in 1445 to Anne Hankford (1431-1485), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Richard Hankford (c. 1397 - 1431) of Annery, Monkleigh, Devon, jure uxoris feudal baron of Bampton (grandson of Sir William Hankford (c. 1350 - 1423), Chief Justice of the King's Bench) by his 2nd wife Anne Montagu (d.1457), a daughter of John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury (c. 1350 - 1400). By Anne Hankford he had two daughters and co-heiresses who inherited the Butler estates in England:
Lady Anne Butler (1455-June 5, 1533), heiress through her mother of Annery, who married firstly Ambrose Cressacre, esquire, by whom she had no issue, and secondly Sir James St Leger (d.1509), by whom she had two sons, Sir George St Leger, and James St Leger.
Lady Margaret Butler (1465-1537), who married Sir William Boleyn, by whom she had six sons and five daughters, including Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, father of Queen Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII.

Secondly in 1486, he married Lora Berkeley (1454-1501), widow successively of John Blount, 3rd Baron Mountjoy (by whom she had two sons and two daughters), and Sir Thomas Montgomery (d. 2 January 1495) of Faulkbourne, Essex, and daughter of Edward Berkeley (d. March 1506) of Beverston Castle, Gloucestershire, by his wife Christian Holt (d.1468), second daughter and coheir of Richard Holt. By his second wife Lora Berkeley, Ormond had one daughter:
Elizabeth Butler (d.1510).

Death & succession
Ormond died on 3 August 1515 and was buried in the Mercers' Chapel of the Hospital of St Thomas of Acre in the City of London. As he died without male progeny the barony supposedly created in 1488 fell into abeyance. The Earldom devolved to his heir male and distant cousin Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1467-1539), the grandson of his first cousin Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler (1420-1464) of Polestown, County Kilkenny, Ireland, a grandson of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (c.1359-1405) of Gowran Castle in Ireland.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Butler,_7th_Earl_of_Ormond

In 1475 the attainder against the Butler family was annulled by the Irish Parliament. The first English Parliament of Henry VII followed suit, so that the 7th Earl (the youngest of the three brothers), whom the Irish called "The Earl of Wool", was one of the wealthiest of the King's subjects in England.

In 1489 he was created Lord Ormond, a barony in the peerage of England, which on his death fell into abeyance between his daughters. He spent the years from 1505 to 1515 in England. While there, the 7th Earl was granted a fine manor house at Beaulieu in Essex by King Henry VII. He entertained Henry VIII there in 1510 and again in 1515.

On his death this English property went to his daughter, Margaret, who had married William Boleyn. The son of one of her daughters inherited from him no less than 36 manors in England; the son of the other daughter was father of Anne Boleyn. After bequeathing his treasured heirloom of an ancient gold and ivory drinking horn to his namesake and grandson, Thomas Boleyn, the Earl died in 1515 and was buried in an Easter Sepulchre on the north side of the high altar in the chapel of St Thomas Acon, London, built where St Thomas Becket was supposed to have been born. SOURCE: www.tudorplace.com.ar

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