JAMESBUTLERORMONDE, 1STDUKE OF (1610-1688), Irish statesman and soldier, eldest son of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Poyntz, and grandson of Walter, 11th earl of Ormonde (see above), was born in London on the 19th of October 1610.
On the death of his father by drowning in 1619, the boy was made a royal ward by James I., removed from his Roman Catholic tutor, and placed in the household of Abbot, archbishop of Canterbury, with whom he stayed until 1625, residing afterwards in Ireland with his grandfather.
Ormonde was attacked by this person and his accomplices while driving up St James's Street on the night of the 6th of December, dragged out of his coach, and taken on horseback along Piccadilly with the intention of hanging him at Tyburn.
JamesButler, 1stDuke of Ormonde (October 19, 1610–July 21, 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier.
JamesButler was the eldest son of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, and of Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Poyntz, and the grandson of Walter, 11th Earl of Ormonde.
Ormonde, though desperately short of money, was in constant attendance on Charles II and the queen mother in Paris, and accompanied the former to Aix and Cologne when expelled from France by the terms of Mazarin's treaty with Cromwell in 1655.
JamesButler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (April 29, 1665 - November 16, 1745), Irish statesman and soldier, son of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, and grandson of JamesButler, 1stDuke of Ormonde, was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.
Having succeeded his grandfather as Duke of Ormonde in 1688, he joined William of Orange, by whom he was made colonel of a regiment of horse-guards, which he commanded at the Battle of the Boyne.
Ormonde died on 16 November 1745, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Ormonde remained firm throughout all the plots and struggles of Scots, Old Irish, Catholic Irish of English race, and Protestants, and in spite of the intrigues of the pope's nuncio as well as of attempts by the parliament's commissioners to ruin his power.
Ormonde, though desperately short of money, was in constant attendance on Charles II and the queen mother in Paris, and accompanied the former to Aix and Cologne when expelled from France by the terms of Mazarin's treaty with Cromwell in 1655.
Ormonde soon became the mark for attack from all that was worst in the court.
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JamesButler, 2nd duke of Ormonde (April 29, 1665 - November 16, 1745), Irish statesman and soldier, son of Thomas, earl of Ossory, and grandson of JamesButler, 1stDuke of Ormonde, was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.
In 1691 he served on the continent under William, and after the accession of Queen Anne he became commander of the land forces co-operating with Sir George Rooke in Spain.
During the last years of Queen Anne, Ormonde almost certainly had Jacobite leanings, and corresponded with James FitzJames, Duke of Berwick.
Lord Dunboyne comments that there were over 6400 Butlers listed in the 1880 Census of Texas, of whom only 3 are stated to have been born in Ireland, namely James J. Butler (age 50), his wife Nora (age 40) and one P.J. Butler (aged 31).
The fact that William Butler was a servant suggests that he may have been Irish and transported during the Cromwellian period...The Will dated 26 Oct 1724 of William Butler (d.1730) set out on p.17 of Elmer's book, gives "to my son Thomas...a piece of saltmarsh ground with islands thereon bounded...southerly on land of Thomas Burnum".
He is as certain as one can be that she was not legitimate and the 1stDuke is not known to have had any illegitimate daughters, just one illegitimate son.
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Ormond Quay, Dublin - Buildings of Ireland [Archeire, Irish Architecture Online](Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is named after JamesButler, the 1stDuke of Ormonde (1610-1688); three times Lord Lieutenant of Ireland who insisted that the houses built on the north bank of the Liffey faced the river.
Jervis had originally intended to build the terraces with their backs to the river, but Ormonde persuaded him that to build them facing the river, leaving the street open to the water as a quay.
The nearby Ormonde Square is similarly named and for many years was the site of the Ormonde Markets.