Elizabeth was noted in the Talbot Pedigrees in the Visitation of Shropshire[2] and the Visitation of Worcester[3] as Elizabeth Butler daughter of James Butler, and the wife of John Talbot, son of John Talbot 1st Earl of Shrewsbury.
She died 8 (or 11) Sep 1473 ind is buried at Shrewsbury Abbey, Shropshire[1]
"Here lyeth Elizabeth Countesse of Shrewsbury, which was Daughter, Sister, Wife, Grand-mother and Kinswoman of the Earles of Arundell, Wynton, Ormond, and Shrewsburie. Shee died the 8. of September, 1473"[4].
Broken marriage contract with the Earl of Desmond:[5]
"Elizabeth Butler was already betrothed by an indenture made in 1429 to the eldest son of the [6th] Earl of Desmond, a fact that was ignored by Ormond. The casting aside of this prior agreement led to a serious deterioration in relations between the two Earls."[6]
"In the mid-15th century the breaking of an Ormond-Desmond marriage contract by the Butlers of Ormond led to hostilities between the two families. When John Talbot, the [2nd] Earl of Shrewsbury, married Elizabeth Butler in an effort to bring to an end the Ormond-Talbot feud in 1444, the Earl of Desmond raided into Ormond’s lordship."
Sources
↑ 1.01.11.2 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. V, pages 125-126, TALBOT 15.
↑ Visitation of Shropshire Taken in the Year 1623. Edited by Grazebrook G and Rylands JP 1889. Part II. The Publications of the Harleian Society Vol 29. Talbot Pedigree p450-453.
↑ Visitation of the County of Worcester 1569. Publications of the Harleian Society. Vol. XXVII. 1888. Talbot Pedigree pp131-136.
↑ The Complete Peerage. Vol. XI: Rickerton to Sisonby. London, 1949. "Shrewsbury", p705. Citing: The Catalogue of Honor, 1610, p745.
↑ For more context, see Gillian Kenny's article "Anglo-Irish and Gaelic marriage laws and traditions in late medieval Ireland" in Journal of Medieval History, 32:1, pp.27-42:
↑ David Beresford, "The Butlers in England and Ireland 1405-1515", unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College Dublin (1999), pp.85-88.
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