Margaret was the younger daughter, and co-heiress, of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, and his first wife Anne Hankford.[1][2] Her birth year is uncertain. A footnote in Volume X of the revised edition of Cokayne's Complete Peerage says she was 20 in 1485,[3] pointing to a birth date of about 1465, but this cannot be reconciled with the dates of Margaret's children, including the first of her daughters called Anne, who died in 1479, a few years old.[4] Wikipedia says Margaret was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, but no source is given for this.[5] Her father also had interests in England.
Before 16 November 1469 (when she is referred to as William's wife in a property agreement with Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury and others[6]) Margaret married William Boleyn.[1][2] They had eleven children:
William Boleyn died in 1505. In his will he left Margaret an annuity of 100 marks.[7][8]
In 1515 Margaret inherited from her father lands in Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire and Oxfordshire[1][2] and Newhall in Essex.[9][10]
For the last 20 years or so of her life, Margaret was said to have been incapable of managing her affairs.[11][12] In 1521 she appointed her son James to look after her properties in Ireland.[13]
In 1538 she and her son Thomas sold the manors of Aylesbury and Bierton, Buckinghamshire.[14]
Margaret died a little before 20 March 1539/40.[1][2] Orders for Inquisitions Post Mortem were issued in 31 Henry VIII (21 April 1539-20 April 1540).[15]
Research Notes
Margaret was a grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII.
↑ 2.002.012.022.032.042.052.062.072.082.092.102.112.122.132.14 Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. II, pp. 55-56, BUTLER 12
↑ G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. X, St Catherine Press, 1945, p. 133 footnote b, viewable on Familysearch
↑ 4.04.1 John Sell Cotman. Engravings of sepulchral brasses in Norfolk and Suffolk, Vol. I, Henry G Bohn, 1839, p. 23, Internet Archive
↑Archaeologia, Vol. III, 1775, pp. 20-21, Hathi Trust
↑ 'Parishes: Fritwell', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 6, ed. Mary D Lobel (London, 1959), pp. 134-146, British History Online, accessed 2 August 2022
↑ W Rye. "The Murder of Amy Robert, Appendix VI: The Insanity of Margaret Boleyn" in The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, Vol. III, Part I, A H Goose and Co., 1885, pp. 319-320, Google Books
↑ G E Cokayne, Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. X, p. 137, footnote b
Weis, Frederick Lewis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists who Came to America Before 1700, 8th ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992, p. 118, line 120/38
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Michael, have you started work on this project? I would like to compare notes with you. I am working on the proofs/documentation that my husband and I are 16th cousins, descended from Margaret (Butler) Boleyn b. about 1455. This would make her our 15th great grandmothers. I'm just starting to look at this as I find it so interesting and surprising. Berry Lynne Allen
Thanks, Lynne. As the comment above indicates, I have finished the work I intend at the moment on this profile. If you have additional well-sourced information on Margaret Butler, please could you send it to me by private message? You will not be able to make any changes yourself as this profile is pre-1500 and only members with pre-1500 certification can edit it. Enjoy exploring your and your husband's possible lines of descent from her.
So far I have found no clear evidence she was born there. This birthplace is given in Wikipedia, but without a source. Her parents had lands in both England and Ireland.
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