James Butler, 2nd Earl Of Ormond
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James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 October 133118 October 1382) was a noble in the
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. 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 Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond (17 October 13046 January 1338), was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was born in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland and died in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland. Family James Butler was the son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carr ...
and Lady Eleanor de Bohun, James was born at
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and given in ward on 1 September 1344 to Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond for the fine of 2,306 marks; and afterwards 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 Edward I (17/18 June 1239 â€“ 7 July 1307), also known as Edward Longshanks and the Hammer of the Scots (Latin: Malleus Scotorum), was King of England from 1272 to 1307. Concurrently, he was Lord of Ireland, and from 1254 ...
. He died at Knocktopher Castle in Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland.


Career

In 1362, he slew 600 of Mac Murrough's followers at Teigstaffen (
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). On 22 April 1364, was appointed
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to Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clarence: Clarence, from his first arrival in Ireland, placed great trust in him, and for a few years it seems that as Deputy he was almost all-powerful. In the 1360s he clashed with
Maurice FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare Maurice FitzThomas FitzGerald, 4th Earl of Kildare (1318 - 25 August 1390) was a prominent Irish nobleman in the Peerage of Ireland who held the office of Lord Justice of Ireland. The second son of Thomas FitzGerald, 2nd Earl of Kildare by his ...
. In 1364 the
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sent a delegation to England, headed by Kildare, to complain of misgovernment, and to ask for the removal of "corrupt" officials, some of whom had links to Ormond. A number of these officials were removed, but Ormond's position was not seriously threatened. He was Lord Justice by 24 July 1376, with a salary of £500 a year, in which office he was continued by King
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. On 2 April 1372, he was made constable of
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, with the fee of £18 5s. a year.Lodge, John ''The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom'', 1789, Vol IV, p 9. He was summoned to the Parliaments held by Richard II. He died on 18 October 1382 in his castle of
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(near which he had, in 1356, founded a Friary for
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friars). He was buried in St. Canice's Cathedral,
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.


Marriage and Children

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 five children: * James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (1362–1405). * Thomas Butler, Justice of Cork 1359–1396 * Eleanor Butler 1350–1392, married Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond * Joan Butler 1360–1393 (plague) married Teige
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, Prince of
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* Ralph Butler 1356–1367


See also

*
Butler dynasty Butler () is the name of a noble family whose members were, for several centuries, prominent in the administration of the Lordship of Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland. They rose to their highest prominence as Dukes of Ormonde. The family ha ...


References

* 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
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