We have created a browser extension. Known as "Black Tom". Ormond realised that service to the state was a sure means of increasing his prestige and income, so cooperated willingly with Wentworth. 3° Earl of Ossory. The second Scottish creation was in 1651, and became extinct in 1715. When James Butler was born on 4 October 1331, in Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland, his father, James Butler 1st Earl of Ormond, was 26 and his mother, Eleanor De Bohun Countess of Ormonde, was 26. He was commonly called Earl of Gowran. On the other side, any concession that Ormond made to the Confederates weakened his support among English and Scottish Protestants in Ireland. Ormond mounted several expeditions from Dublin in 1642 that cleared the area around Dublin of Confederate forces. For the title in the Peerage of Ireland, see Earl of Ormond (Ireland). [3] James Butler, the fifth earl of this creation, was made Marquess of Ormonde (1642) and Duke of Ormonde (1660) in the Peerage of Ireland, and Duke of Ormonde (1682) in the Peerage of England. [57] In 1658, he went disguised, and at great risk, on a secret mission into England to gain trustworthy intelligence as to the chances of an uprising. However, the New Model Army took them one after the other, beginning with the Siege of Drogheda in September 1649. [citation needed] On 8 August 1647 the combined royalist and parliamentarian troops won the major Battle of Dungan's Hill against the Confederates. This James Butler was the son of Eleanor Bohun who was granddaughter of Edward I of England. [62] He encouraged Irish manufacture and learning, and it was due to his efforts that the Irish College of Physicians owes its incorporation. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. Appointment of James, Earl of Ormond, as Justiciar. Serving as a volunteer under the Duke of Somerset in Scotland, he distinguished himself by his bravery at the battle of Musselborough. Around the time that Ormond succeeded to the earldom, Sir Thomas Wentworth(later Earl of Strafford), arrived as King Charles I's lord-deputy in Ireland. To install click the Add extension button. [37], In March 1643, Ormond ventured with his troops to New Ross, County Wexford, deep in the territory of the Catholic Confederation, and won a small but indecisive victory there (Battle of New Ross) before returning to Dublin. His friend, the 1st Earl of Strafford, caused him to be appointed the commander of the Cavalier forces in Ireland. Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, 3rd Earl of Ossory, Viscount Thurles, Lord Treasurer of Ireland, was born circa1531 to James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde (1496-1546) and Joan FitzGerald (c1509-1565) and died 22 November 1614 of unspecified causes. [58], He had great influence over the appointment of judges: while he naturally wished to appoint to the Bench men of legal ability, a record of loyalty to the Crown was also generally required. Ormond's negotiations with the Confederates were therefore tortuous, even though many of the Confederate leaders were his relatives or friends.[38]. The earldom of Ormond was originally created in 1328 for James Butler. 214. At the same time, he recovered his enormous estates in Ireland, and large grants in recompense of the fortune he had spent in the royal service were made to him by the king, while in the following year the Irish Parliament presented him with £30,000. The incumbent Earl of Ormond, a protestant, went into exile with Charles II during the Interregnum under Cromwell, and with the king’s restoration in 1660 the Earl was rewarded with a dukedom. Subsidiary titles for the dukes were Earl of Brecknock (1660) and Baron Butler (1660) in the Peerage of England and Earl of Ormond (1328), Earl of Ossory (1538) and Viscount Thurles (1536) in the Peerage of Ireland. The peerage title Earl of Ormond and the related titles Duke of Ormonde and Marquess of Ormonde have a long and complex history. Ormond then judged that he could not hold Dublin against the Confederates. Butler, James, 4th Earl of Ormond, known as the "White Earl," was, like many of his predecessors, a minor when his father died. Nevertheless, Ormond was in a difficult situation. His wife and children were escorted from Kilkenny to Dublin under the order of the rebel leader Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret, another member of the Butler dynasty. Congratulations on this excellent venture⦠what a great idea! He secured control of the Pale, and re-supplied some outlying garrisons, without serious contest. [41] The previous occupant of this post, Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, had never set foot in Ireland. In the 1650s he lived in exile on the continent with King Charles II of England. At that time, Anne was the mistress of King Henry VIII of England. [33] The opposition to Wentworth ultimately aided impeachment of the Earl by the English Parliament, and his eventual execution in May 1641.[34]. Through his marriage with his cousin Elizabeth Preston, granddaughter of the third earl, he had reunited the titles with the Ormonde estates. Ormond lost most of the English and Protestant Royalist troops under his command when they mutinied and went over to Cromwell in May 1650. In 1644, he assisted Randall Macdonnell, 1st Marquess of Antrim in mounting an Irish Confederate expedition into Scotland. This strained his relationship with the rest of his family and dependants, as they suffered from land confiscations and legal discrimination on account of their religion, while he did not. Soon afterwards, in November 1643, by the King's orders, Ormond dispatched a body of his troops into England to fight on the Royalist side in the Civil War, estimated at 4,000 troops, half of whom were sent from Cork. James inherited his father's courtesy title Viscount Thurles. Share. Alternative Titles: Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde, Earl of Ossory, The Red Earl Piers Butler, 8th earl of Ormonde, Piers also spelled Pierce, byname The Red Earl, (born c. 1467—died August 21/26, 1539), leading member of the Butler family in Ireland; he claimed the earldom in 1515, seized the estates, and revived the Butler influence. He sailed on a small frigate, the Elizabeth, which the Duke of York had sent him from Jersey. Ormond was ousted from his command in late 1650. James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde, Knight of Polestown, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. In his estates in Carrick-on-Suir in County Tipperary, he was responsible for establishing the woollen industry in the town in 1670. [68] While wary of defending Oliver Plunkett publicly, in private he denounced the obvious falsity of the charges against him - of the informers who claimed that Plunkett had hired them to kill the King he wrote that "no schoolboy would have trusted them with the design of robbing an orchard". The Lords Justices, Sir William Parsons, 1st Baronet of Bellamont and Sir John Borlase, who suspected him because he was related to many of the Confederate leaders, recalled him from command, but he succeeded securing much of County Kildare in February 1642. At eighteen he went to Portsmouth with his friend George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham intending to join the expedition for the relief of La Rochelle; a project abandoned upon the Duke's assassination. Earl of Ormond since 1328 and the title of Earl of Ossory since 1538, during the mid-seventeenth century James Butler (1610-1688) became the most pivotal political and military figure in Ireland during the conflicts engendered by both the English Civil War and the successful marginalisation of the Catholic ‘Old English’ and Irish nobility by a [68] Despite his long service to Ireland he admitted that he had no wish to spend his last years there. Built in the 1560s by Thomas Butler, the 10th Earl of Ormond. An unrelated Earldom of Ormonde was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland. The Irish Confederates were now much more amenable to compromise, as 1647 had seen a series of military disasters for them at the hands of English Parliamentarian forces. Isolated in Dublin in what was now a 3-sided contest, with the king desiring to reduce the Irish Royal Army, Ormond negotiated a "cessation" or ceasefire for a year with the Confederates. Lieutenant-General James FitzThomas Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, KG, PC (1610–1688), was an Irish statesman and soldier, known as Earl of Ormond from 1634 to 1642 and Marquess of Ormond from 1642 to 1661. The presumed successors of the 7th marquess in the Earldoms of Ormonde and Ossory have been the 17th and 18th Viscounts Mountgarret, descending in the male line from a younger son of the 8th Earl; however, no claim from the 17th or 18th viscount was submitted to the Monarch. These suspicions were encouraged by the improper action of the king in pardoning Blood, and in admitting him to his presence and treating him with favour after his apprehension while endeavouring to steal the crown jewels.[68]. Subsequently, Ormond lived in retirement at Cornbury in Oxfordshire, a house lent to him by Lord Clarendon, but emerged in 1687 to offer opposition at the board of the Charterhouse to James's attempt to assume the dispensing power and force upon the institution a Roman Catholic candidate without taking the oaths. King Charles appointed James Butler, Earl of Ormond, commander of government forces in Ireland, but troops sent to relieve Drogheda were defeated by Rory O'More at Julianstown in County Meath on 29 November. On his arrival in Ireland, he occupied himself in placing the revenue and the army upon a proper footing. At Christmas 1629,[18] they married putting an end to the long-standing quarrel between the families and united their estates. Created Duke of Ormond in the Irish Peerage. His wife Elizabeth, Duchess of Ormond was buried on 24th July 1684 (the date inscribed on the vault stone is incorrect). Shortly after his birth, his parents returned to Ireland. Ormond house Castle is the best example of an Elizabethan manor house in Ireland. Now having more means at his command, Thurles entered into all the gaieties of the court and town. The Confederates called off their truce with Ormond, and arrested those among their number who had signed the treaty with Ormond. [59], On the return of Charles to England as king, Ormond was appointed a commissioner for the treasury and the navy, made Lord Steward of the Household, a Privy Councillor, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (an office which he resigned in 1672), High Steward of Westminster, Kingston and Bristol, chancellor of Trinity College, Dublin, Baron Butler of Llanthony and Earl of Brecknock in the peerage of England; and on 30 March 1661 he was created Duke of Ormond in the Irish peerage[60] and made Lord High Steward of England, for Charles's coronation that year. An earldom of Ormond has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. E: ormondcastle@opw.ie. His losses, however, according to Carte, exceeded his gains by nearly a million £. [12] He seems to have been neglected by the Archbishop — "he was not instructed even in humanity, nor so much as taught to understand Latin".[13]. An earldom of Ormond has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland.It was originally created in 1328 for James Butler.The fifth earl was created Earl of Wiltshire (1449) in the Peerage of England, but he was attainted in 1461 and his peerages were declared forfeit. On 21 October 1645 Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, the papal nuncio landed in Ireland. In 1660, James the 12th Earl of Ormond returned to Ireland with Charles II. They had six children. A later peerage title, the Earldom of Gowran, was granted to the seventh son of the 1st Duke of Ormond in 1676 but became extinct within less than two years. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? The lineage of the Butlers can be traced back to James Butler born in 1331 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland. Charles II created him Duke of Ormond in 1661, and appointed him Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, and also confirmed him once again in his Irish lands. James Butler, the 12th Earl and 1st Duke of Ormond (1610-88), was a grandnephew of Black Tom. Wentworth planned large scale confiscations of Catholic-owned land, both to raise money for the crown and to break the political power of the Irish Catholic gentry, a po… [citation needed] In November 1643 the king appointed Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. He received an education in advance of most young Irish lords of his time. The anonymous author of Ormond's biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) (not having become senile)[71] Ormond was buried in Westminster Abbey on 4 August 1688. [36] He received the public thanks of the English Parliament and a monetary reward, and in September 1642 was put in command with a commission direct from the king. Thomas Viscount Thurles' son JAMES, who became a royal ward, would restore the family fortunes and become 12th Earl of Ormonde and 18th Chief Butler in 1633, created 1st Marquess of Ormonde in 1642; he supported Charles I and the Royalists against the Catholic Confederate rebels of Ireland led by his relatives, but joined forces with them to fight against Cromwell's invasion, and shared … Subsidiary titles for the duke were Earl of Brecknock (1660) and Baron Butler (1660) in the Peerage of England and Earl of Ormond (1328), Earl of Ossory (1538) and Vis… He left Ireland for France sailing from Galway on 7 December 1650,[50] but stopped over at Gleninagh Castle, on the southern shore of the Bay of Galway, from where he then started his passage to France on 11 December. That title became extinct in 1997, while the earldom became dormant. As a reward for his patriotism and generosity, Piers Butler was created Earl of Ossory five days after resigning his rights to the other titles. This facilitated the next creation by awarding the titles of Ormond and Wiltshire to Thomas Boleyn, who was the father of Anne Boleyn. His father was known as the Noble Earl, being the great-grandson of King Edward I through his mother. [2] The fifth earl was created Earl of Wiltshire (1449) in the Peerage of England, but he was attainted in 1461 and his peerages were declared forfeit. His father's family, the Butler dynasty, was Old English and descended from Theobald Walter, who had been appointed Chief Butler of Ireland by King Henry II in 1177. [53] Ormond was accompanied among others by Inchiquin, Bellings and Daniel O'Neill. She was the daughter of Sir Richard Preston (Baron Dingwall in Scotland and Earl of Desmond in Ireland) and his wife Lady Elizabeth (daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond). The peerage title Earl of Ormond and the related titles Duke of Ormonde and Marquess of Ormonde have a long and complex history. Before he could give up his government to Rochester, Charles II died; and Ormond's last act as lord lieutenant was to proclaim James II in Dublin.[68]. Through his daughter, Anne, he was the grandfather of Elizabeth I of England. On the death of Boleyn, these peerages of the second creation became extinct because he lacked male heirs, his son George having been executed for treason. [65] Ormond soon became the mark for attack from all that was worst in the court. By 1635, he was a trusted member of Wentworth's council. The title Earl of Ormond was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Douglas family. [14] This was very important for Thurles's future life, as it meant that, unlike almost all his relatives in the Butler dynasty, he was a Protestant. Writing to Charles I, Wentworth described Ormond as "young, but take it from me, a very staid head". Ormond was placed in command of the Irish Confederates' armies and also English Royalist troops who were landed in Ireland from France.[49]. [54][55], A synod held at the Augustinian abbey in Jamestown, County Leitrim, repudiated Ormond and excommunicated his followers. Irish Protestant opposition turned out to be so intense, that Charles was forced to repudiate the treaty almost immediately out of fear of ceding almost all Irish Protestant support to the other side in the English civil war. However, after 1603 County Kilkenny was no longer as strategically important to the crown, and the loyalty of the local population was ideologically suspect because of their adherence to Counter-reformation Catholicism. On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Ormond found himself in command of the Irish Royal Army based in Dublin. wrote that with him disappeared the greatest and grandest figure of the times, and that Ormond's splendid qualities were expressed with some felicity in verses written on welcoming his return to Ireland and printed in 1682:[68]. [44] However, the Confederates' General Assembly in Kilkenny rejected the deal, partly due to the influence of the pope's ambassador (nuncio) Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, who worked to dissuade the Catholics from entering into a compromise. 3° Earl of Ossory. In general, the judges followed his example and, by the standards of the age, were merciful enough. Ormond house Castle is the best example of an Elizabethan manor house in Ireland. James Butler with wife, parents, and other selected relatives. When fifteen Thurles went to live with his paternal grandfather (then released from prison) at Drury Lane. Thomas was the son and heir of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and Lady Joan FitzGerald, the daughter and heir of James, eleventh earl of Desmond. James Butler was born on 28 May 1393, in County Kilkenny, Ireland as the son of James Butler and Anne de Welles. He married Elizabeth Sheffield (-c1601) 15 November 1582 in London. [2] After 1682, the spelling "Ormonde" was used almost universally. In Cromwell's Act of Settlement of 1652, all of Ormond's lands in Ireland were confiscated and he was excepted from the pardon given to those Royalists who had surrendered by that date. Earl of Ormond (Ireland) Top # 12 Facts. History of Ormonde titles. Most of the country was taken by the Catholic rebels, who included Ormond's Butler relatives. Inveterate political intrigue in pursuit of office at court had led to the downfall of the Earl of Clarendon as Chancellor and attacks on Ormond, so closely linked to his old friend soon followed. He was brought up at the English court with Edward VI. [61], His heart was in his government, and he vehemently opposed the Importation Act 1667 prohibiting the importation of Irish cattle, which struck so fatal a blow at Irish trade; and retaliated by prohibiting the import into Ireland of Scottish commodities, and obtained leave to trade with foreign countries. In April 1656 Ormond was one of two signatories who agreed the Treaty of Brussels, securing an alliance for the Royalists with the Spanish court. The force, led by Alasdair MacColla was sent to help the Scottish Royalists and sparked off a civil war in Scotland (1644–45). He had to use these with the outbreak of the 1641 Rebellion. The Old (native) Irish and Catholic Irish of English descent ("Old English") were represented in Confederate Ireland—essentially an independent Catholic government based in Kilkenny—who wanted to come to terms with King Charles I of England in return for religious toleration and self-government. When the Bishops' Wars broke out in 1639, Wentworth encouraged the King to raise Irish troops to fight the rebellious Scots. Info. The son of James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormonde and Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormonde, he was called The Noble Earl, being a great-grandson of Edward I. Walter, the eleventh earl, was given an English peerage as Lord Butler of Llanthony in 1801,[5] and was created the Marquess of Ormonde in the Peerage of Ireland in 1816; on his death that title became extinct and the earldoms passed to his brother, for whom the title Marquess of Ormonde was created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1825. who took delight in his company. The earldom of Ormond was originally created in 1328 for James Butler. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376. The 2nd Earl of Ormand was known widely as the Earl of Gowran (1385), a customary title. If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting your device. The rebellion had spread through the whole of Ireland by the spring of 1642. However, Ormond's bonds of kinship were not entirely severed. Upon the outbreak of the disturbances caused by the Popish Plot (1678) in England, Ormond at once took steps towards rendering the Roman Catholics, who were in the proportion of 15 to 1, powerless; and the mildness and moderation of his measures served as the ground of an attack upon him in England led by Shaftesbury, from which he was defended with great spirit by his own son Lord Ossory. James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde (b. bef. [58], On 4 November 1661, he once more received the lord lieutenancy of Ireland, and busily engaged in the work of settling that country. For many subsequent years, the earls took significant roles in the government of Ireland, and kept a tradition of loyalty to the English crown and to English custom. Father drowned at sea. In April he relieved the royalist garrisons at Naas, Athy and Maryborough, and on his return to Dublin he won the Battle of Kilrush against a larger force. See also Act of Settlement 1662. Ormond tried to retake Dublin by laying siege to the city in the summer of 1649, but was routed at the Battle of Rathmines in August. who took delight in his company. A round the time that Ormond succeeded to the earldom, Sir Thomas Wentworth (later Earl of Strafford), arrived as King Charles I's lord-deputy in Ireland. He was criticised for favouring old friends like John Bysse who were considered too infirm to be effective, but this also shows one of his main virtues, loyalty: as Elrington Ball remarks, those whom Ormond had ever loved, he loved to the end. In March 1669, Ormond was removed from the government of Ireland and from the committee for Irish affairs. 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Arms of Butler, Earl & Marquess of Ormonde: Ramon Jiménez â An Evening at the Cockpit: Further Evidence of an Early Date for Henry V. It will enhance any encyclopedic page you visit with the magic of the WIKI 2 technology. Certainly James, the Protestant twelfth earl of Ormond, soared to prominence in Dublin and was eventually made duke of Ormond. On the execution of the Charles I (30 January 1649)[48] he proclaimed his loyalty to Charles II, who made him a Knight of the Garter in September 1649. From 1649 to 1650 he was the leading commander of the Royalist forces in the fight against the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He married Joan de Beauchamp (1396-1430) 28 August 1413 JL . Ormond also refused the king his support in the question of the Indulgence; James, to his credit, refused to take away his offices, and continued to hold him in respect and favour to the last. He made no complaint, insisted that his sons and others over whom he had influence should retain their posts, and continued to fulfil the duties of his other offices, while his character and services were recognised in his election as Chancellor of the University of Oxford on 4 August 1669. The first action was the relief of Drogheda being besieged by the Irish rebels under Sir Phelim O’ Neill. Several of … He was created both an English and an Irish Duke, and was made a Privy Councillor in England, Ireland and Scotland. Prior to the creation of the Earldom of Ormond, the First Earl's father had been created the first Earl of Carrick. [15], It was during his London residence that he set himself to learn Irish, a partial knowledge of which proved most useful to him in after years. James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was born 1392 to James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormonde (1376-1405) and Anne Welles (1360-1397) and died 22 August 1452 of unspecified causes. [August 6, 1376] 216. An earldom of Ormond has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland.. History of Ormonde titles. An earldom of Ormond has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland.It was originally created in 1328 for James Butler.The fifth earl was created Earl of Wiltshire (1449) in the Peerage of England, but he was attainted in 1461 and his peerages were declared forfeit. James Butler, Earl of Ormond was put in charge of 8,000 Royal troops in 1639. Several of the earls also had reputations as scholars. The truce began on 15 September 1643,[39] By this treaty the greater part of Ireland was given up into the hands of the Catholic Confederation (leaving only districts in the north, the Dublin Pale, round Cork City, and certain smallish garrisons in the possession of Protestant commanders). Subsequently, he tried to halt Cromwell by holding a line of fortified towns across the country. [58][49] Relations between Ormond and the Queen Mother became increasingly strained; when she remarked that "if she had been trusted, the King had now been in England", Ormond retorted that "if she had never been trusted the King had never been out of England". However, this title did not pass to James Butler. In 1673, he again visited Ireland, returned to London in 1675 to give advice to Charles on affairs in parliament, and in 1677 was again restored to favour and reappointed to the lord lieutenancy. Butler, Thomas, 10th Earl of Ormond, Earl of Ossory, surnamed the "Black Earl," born about 1532, was but fourteen at his father's death.He was brought up at the English court with Edward VI. Sir Thomas Butler, 7th Earl Ormond, Baron Ormond of Rocheford, Chief Butler of Ireland1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 M, #13903, b. circa 1424, d. 3 August 1515 Father James Butler, 4th Earl Ormond12,13,14 b. 215. Letters patent of Edward III. [29], On 24 February 1633, Thurles, on the death of his grandfather, succeeded to the earldom as the 12th Earl of Ormond. From 1641 to 1647, he led the Royal Irish Army fighting against the Irish Catholic Confederation. Built in the 1560s by Thomas Butler, the 10th Earl of Ormond. Edmund Walter, Earl of Carrick, father to the first Earle of Ormond, and five Earles of Ormond in a direct line, successively following him, were all chiefe Governours of Ireland either by style of Custos Hiberniae, Justiciarius Hiberniae, locum teneus Hiberniae, or Deputatus Hiberniae. [64], Ormond's personality had always been a striking one, and he was highly regarded. In 1391 he purchased the estate of Kilkenny Castle, thenceforth the seat of the Butlers.