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  JAMES BUTLER, 2ND DUKE OF ORMONDE - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES BUTLER, 2ND DUKE OF ORMONDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Irish statesman and soldier, son of Thomas, earl of Ossory, and grandson of the 1st duke, was born in Dublin on the 29th of April 1665, and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.
On the dismissal of the duke of Marlborough in 1711, Ormonde was appointed captain.
Ormonde died on the 16th of November 5745, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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 James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
After taking part in the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, Ormonde settled in Spain, where he was in favour at court and enjoyed a pension from the crown.
Ormonde died on 16 November 1745, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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 EARL AND MARQUESS OF ORMONDE - LoveToKnow Article on EARL AND MARQUESS OF ORMONDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Walters grandson, James, the 12th earl, was created marquess of Ormonde in 1642 and duke of Ormonde in 1661 (see below); his son was Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory (q.v.), and his grandson was James Butler, 2nd duke of Ormonde (see below).
When Charles Butler, earl of Arran (1671-1758), the brother and successor of the 2nd duke, died in December 1758, the dukedom and marquessate became extinct, but the earldom was claimed by a kinsman, John Butler (d.
James was the grandfather of James Edward William Theobald Butler (b.
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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 was attacked by Blood and his accomplices while driving up St James's Street on the night of 6 December 1670, dragged out of his coach, and taken on horseback along Piccadilly with the intention of hanging him at Tyburn.
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 JAMES BUTLER, 1ST DUKE OF ORMONDE - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES BUTLER, 1ST DUKE OF ORMONDE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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.
Ormonde was attacked by this person and his accomplices while driving up St Jamess 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.
Ormonde died on the 21st of July 1688, not having, as he rejoiced to know, outlived his intellectuals ; and with him disappeared the greatest and grandest figure of the times.
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James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, (October 19, 1610–July 21, 1688), was an Anglo-Irish statesman and soldier.
James Butler 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 died on 21 July 1688 at Kingston Lacy, Dorset, not having, as he rejoiced to know, "outlived his intellectuals"; and with him disappeared the greatest and grandest figure of the times.
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 Gleanings on the Surname of Butler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
James Butler, son and heir of James, 4th Earl of Ormonde, in Ireland, by Joan, daughter of William Beauchamp, Lord Abergavenny, became Earl of Wiltshire by letters patent and succeeded to the Irish honours on 8 July 1449, as the 5th Earl of Ormonds on the death of his father in 1452.
Butler - Barons Butler, of Lanthony, Co. Monmouth, Earls of Brecknock, in the Peerage of England, and Duke of Ormonds.
James Butler, Marquess of Ormonds and Earl of Ossory in Ireland, Baron Butler of Lanthony and Earl of Brecknock and Irish Duke of Ormonde.
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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (April 29, 1665 - November 16, 1745), Irish statesman and soldier, son of Thomas, earl of Ossory, and grandson of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, was born in Dublin and was educated in France and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford.
During the last years of Queen Anne, Ormonde almost certainly had Jacobite leanings, and corresponded with James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick.
In June 1715 he was impeached, and fled to France, where he for some time resided with Bolingbroke, and in 1716 his immense estates were confiscated to the crown by act of parliament, though by a subsequent act his brother, Charles Butler, earl of Arran, was enabled to repurchase them.
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 ORMONDE, EARL AND MARQUESS OF - Online Information article about ORMONDE, EARL AND MARQUESS OF
Boleyn of Blickling, and their son Sir Thomas Boleyn (1477—1539) was created earl of Ormonde and of Wiltshire in 1529.
duke of Ormonde in 1661 (see below); his son was Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory (q.v.), and his grandson was James Butler, 2nd duke of Ormonde (see below).
His son Walter, the 18th earl (1770—1820), was created marquess of Ormonde in 1816, a title which became extinct on his death, but was revived in favour of his brother James (1774—1838) in 1825.
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From the early years of the 14th century the Ormonde earls, generation by generation, were called to the chief government of Ireland as lords-keeper, lords-lieutenant, deputies or lordsjustices, and unlike their hereditary enemies the Geraldines they kept a tradition of loyalty to the English crown and to English custom.
His son and heir, James the Lame, who had been created Viscount Thurles on the 2nd of January 153 5/6, obtained an act of parliament in 1543/4 which, confirming the grant to his father of the earldom, gave him the old pre-eminence of the ancient earldom of 1328.
John dying six years later was succeeded by Walter Butler, a first cousin, whose son John, heir-male of the line of Ormonde, became earl of Ormonde and Ossory and Viscount Thurles in 1791, the Irish parliament reversing the attainder of 1715.
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 ORMONDE, JAMES BUTLER, 1ST DUKE - Online Information article about ORMONDE, JAMES BUTLER, 1ST DUKE
peerage of England; and on the 3oth of March 1661 he was created duke of Ormonde in the Irish peerage and lord high steward of England.
Act of Explanation was passed through the Irish parliament by Ormonde on the 23rd of December 1665.
extinct in the person of Charles, 3rd duke of Ormonde, the earldom subsequently reverted to the descendants of Walter, 11th earl of Ormonde.
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Robert de Ferrers, 2nd Earl of Ferrières (1062-1139) was created Earl of Derby by King Stephen in 1138 for his valiant conduct at the Battle of Northallerton.
He married Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory (1634-1680, and sister of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665-1745).
Edward Stanley, 11th Earl of Derby (1689-1776) was descended from the brother of the 2nd Earl, and he succeeded to the earldom in 1736.
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William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire was the son of William Cavendish, 3rd Earl of Devonshire and Lady Elizabeth Cecil.
She married James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, son of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles and Elizabeth Poyntz, in September 1629.
James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde was the son of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory and Lady Amelia de Nassau.
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She was reported as saying that when the king gave opportunity by leaving England, she would put Mary to death even if she were burnt or flayed alive for it.~ She incurred the remonstrances of the privy council and alienated her own friends and relations.
Her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, whom she was reported to have treated worse than a dog, reviled her, calling her a grande putaine.
Her uncle, the duke of Norfolk, presided as lord steward, and gave sentence, weeping, that his niece was to be burned or beheaded as pleased the king.
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 Ormonde, James Butler, 12th earl and 1st duke of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
James Duke was born on Dec. 23, 1856, near Durham, N.C. At the age of 18 he became a partner in his father's tobacco company in North Carolina.
Duke was a large benefactor to Durham's Trinity College, which was renamed Duke University in 1924.
The English poet and satirist Samuel Butler is famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities.
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Ormond, like his father continued to harbor aggressions with his neighbor and fellow countryman the Earl Desmond, as part of a hostile four-generation feud between the Geraldines (Desmond and kin) and the Butlers (Ormond and kin).
Ormonde and Queen Elizabeth met in London as children; Thomas the "son of an Irish Earl" and Elizabeth the "illegitimate daughter of Henry" shared a common ground as neither was well treated by the other young nobles in court.
Ormond spent most of his time in England in the presence of the Queen and many rumors were issued as to the matter.
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 ORMONDE, JAMES BUTLER, 2ND DUKE OF (1665-1745) - Encyclopedia Britannica - ORMONDE, JAMES BUTLER, 2ND DUKE OF ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
He obtained command of a cavalry regiment in Ireland in 1684, and having received an appointment at court on the accession of James II., he served against the duke of Monmouth.
After taking part in the Jacobite invasion in 1715, Ormonde settled in Spain, where he was in favour at court and enjoyed a pension from the crown.
Ormonde died on the 16th of November 1745, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
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Ormonde attended King Charles during August and October 1647 at Hampton Court Palace, but in March 1648, in order to avoid arrest by the parliament, he joined the queen and the II of England">Prince of Wales at Paris.
Before he could give up his government to Rochester[?], Charles II died; and Ormonde's last act as lord lieutenant was to proclaim II of England">James II in Dublin.
Ormonde died on 21 July 1688, not having, as he rejoiced to know, "outlived his intellectuals"; and with him disappeared the greatest and grandest figure of the times.
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Born in Dublin on 29 April 1665, he was styled Lord James Butler till 30 July 1680 when he succeeded his father as Lord Butler of Moore Park and was then styled Earl of Ossory.
In 1685 he took part in the oppression of the Monmouth rebellion and was appointed Colonel of the Regiment of Foot Guards on 29 January 1686.
On 21 July 1688 he succeeded his grandfather and became 2nd Duke of Ormonde, also succeeding him as Chancellor of the Universities of Oxford and Dublin.
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Mary Butler, mar William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire and had issue.
Ormond Quay, Dublin (thus now spelt), is after the 1st Duke.
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 Ormonde, James Butler, 2nd duke of --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The grandson of the Irish statesman James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde, he inherited his grandfather's title in 1688 but deserted James II in the Revolution of 1688–89.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 1587
She married Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, son of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde and Elizabeth Preston, Baroness Dingwall, on 17 November 1659.
She married Rowland Thomas Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer, son of Sir Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer and Ethel Errington, on 4 April 1908.
James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley was the son of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton and Elizabeth Vernon.
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Sir Robert Southwell, "Life of Ormonde", printed in the History of the Irish Parliament, by Lord Mountmorres (i 792), vol.
John Milton, Observations on the Articles of Peace between James, Earl of Ormonde, and the Irish-Rebels
Manuscripts of the Marquis of Ormonde, together with new series; Notes and Queries, vi.
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Being esteemed one of the ablest and most intrepid officers in the whole British forces, he was appointed to the command of a brigade under the Duke of York, for service in the Netherlands.
After holding for a short period the office of commander-in-chief in Scotland, Sir Ralph, when the enterprise against the Dutch Batavian Republic was resolved upon in 1799, was again called to command under the duke of York.
The campaign of 1799 ended in disaster, but friend and foe alike confessed that the most decisive victory could not have more conspicuously proved the talents of this distinguished officer.
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