Joan Butler (bef. 1501 - aft. 1529)

Born before 1501 in Ireland

Ancestors

Wife of James Butler — married before 6 May 1519 (to after 1529) in Ireland

Descendants

Died after 1529 after age 28 in Dunboyne, County Meath, Ireland

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Joan Butler was a member of the aristocracy in Ireland.

Biography

Joan was a younger daughter of Piers Butler (8th Earl of Ormond) and Margaret FitzGerald (daughter of Gerald, 8th Earl of Kildare).

Before 1519 she married James Butler, 10th Baron Dunboyne,^[1] and their children were:

1. Joan Butler d. a Sep 1585
2. Ellen Butler
3. Edmund Butler, 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne d. May 1567
4. Pierce Butler b. c 1521, d. 1577
5. Thomas Butler d. 1571
6. unnamed daughter, b. ca.1522^[2]

From The Butlers of County Clare by Sir Henry Blackall:^[3][4]

• Inquisition taken at Dunboyne on Thursday next after the Feast of St. Martinmas 1536, found that James Butler, late Baron of Dunboyne, died on the 8th January in the 25th year of Hen. VIII 1533 seized of estates in the counties of Meath, Tipperary and Kilkenny; that Edmond was his eldest, Peter his second and Thomas his third son, and that at the taking of the Inquisition they were all minors.

• Inquisition taken at Clonmel on 24 Aug 1536 found that on 5 Aug 1524 James Butler, Baron of Dunboyne, executed a settlement whereby his second son, Peter [Piers] was to inherit at his death the lands of Drangan, Grellagh, Magowry, Clonyn, Liskevine, Parkestown and Ballygallward near the Abbey of Holy Cross, and his third son, Thomas, the manor of Boytonrath and lands in Cashel.

Sources

• Her mother's tomb (Margaret FitzGerald) appears on the cover of Damien Duffy's book, Aristocratic Women in Ireland, 1450-1660: The Ormond Family, Power and Politics (Boydell & Brewer, 2021). The family is covered extensively in the section "Family, Marriage and Politics: The 6 Daughters of Margaret FitzGerald & Piers Butler", pp.105-138:
  • https://books.google.nl/books?id=5EE3EAAAQBAJ&dq

• Butler, Bryant. The Butler Family of Lebanon, Connecticut (The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vt., 1934) Page 13

• Cracroft's Peerage: The Ormond Line

• The Peerage

1. ↑ James and Joan were 2nd cousins via their common great-grandparents Edmund MacRichard Butler and his wife Katharine O'Carroll. "The MacRichard" had been a staunch ally of John, 6th Earl of Ormond, during wars against the Desmonds in the 1460s.
2. ↑ Cokayne's Peerage records that an unnamed daughter of the Baron of Dunboyne married Piers Butler, next brother to Thomas Butler, 1st Baron Cahir, and they were the parents of Theobald Butler, who inherited the title after Thomas' son died without issue.
   • Cokayne's Peerage entry for Theobald Butler, created Baron of Cahir in 1583:
     • Cokayne, George Edward and Vicary Gibbs ed., Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Vol. II: Bass - Canning, 2nd edition (London, 1912), p.466:
       • https://archive.org/details/completepeerageo02coka/page/466/mode/2up
3. ↑ Sir Henry Blackall, "The Butlers of County Clare" (first published in the North Munster Antiquarian Journal, 1952), Appendix III: Fiants, Commissions & Queen’s Letters:
   • http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/butlers/appendix3.htm
4. ↑ Blackall references the Calendar of Patent Rolls for Ireland, Henry VIII-Elizabeth, Vol.1