JAMES BUTLER 1ST EARL WILTSHIRE, 5TH EARL ORMONDE

Paternal Family Tree: Butler (Normandy)

Maternal Family Tree: Julia Fitzgerald

DESCENT

4G Grandson Edward "Longshanks" I King England

8G Grandson Louis VII King Franks

11G Grandson Edmund "Ironside" I King England

EVENTS

24 Nov 1420 born at Kilkenny to James White Earl Butler 4th Earl Ormonde 1393-1452 and Joan Beauchamp

1449 [29] created 1st Earl Wiltshire (3C 1449)

1451 [31] appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland

23 Aug 1452 [32] succeeded 5th Earl Ormonde (1C 1328)

1454 [34] appointed Lord High Treasurer

22 May 1455 [35] fought at First Battle of St Albans: Lancaster

1459 [39] appointed 177th Knight Garter: Henry VI

30 Dec 1460 [40] fought at Battle of Wakefield: Lancaster at Sandal Castle

02 Feb 1461 [41] fought at Battle of Mortimer's Cross: Lancaster

29 Mar 1461 [41] fought at Battle of Towton: Lancaster

married Avice Stafford

married Eleanor Beaufort

01 May 1461 [41] beheaded at Newcastle on Tyne

CHILDREN

ANCESTRY

Father: James "White Earl" Butler 4th Earl Ormonde (3G GS Edward I)

GrandFather: James Butler 3rd Earl Ormonde (2G GS Edward I)

2G GrandFather: James Butler 2nd Earl Ormonde (1G GS Edward I)

3G GrandFather: James Butler 1st Earl Ormonde

4G GrandFather: Edmund Butler Earl Carrick

3G GrandMother: Eleanor Bohun (GD Edward I)

4G GrandFather: Humphrey Bohun 4th Earl Hereford, 3rd Earl Essex

4G GrandMother: Elizabeth Plantagenet of Rhuddlan (D Edward I)

2G GrandMother: Elizabeth Darcy

3G GrandFather: John Darcy 1st Baron Darcy Knayth

3G GrandMother: Joan Burgh

4G GrandFather: Richard "Red Earl" Burgh 2nd Earl Ulster

4G GrandMother: Margaret Burgh

GrandMother: Anne Welles (8G GD Henry I)

2G GrandFather: John Welles 4th Baron Welles

3G GrandFather: Adam Welles 3rd Baron Welles

4G GrandFather: Adam Welles 1st Baron Ughtred

3G GrandMother: Margaret Bardolf

4G GrandFather: Thomas Bardolf 2nd Baron Bardolf

4G GrandMother: Agnes Grandison

2G GrandMother: Maud Ros (7G GD Henry I)

3G GrandFather: William Ros 2nd Baron Ros Helmsley

4G GrandFather: William Ros 1st Baron Ros Helmsley

4G GrandMother: Maud Vaux

3G GrandMother: Margery Badlesmere (6G GD Henry I)

4G GrandFather: Bartholomew Badlesmere 1st Baron Badlesmere

4G GrandMother: Margaret Clare (5G GD Henry I)

Mother: Joan Beauchamp (3G GD Edward I)

GrandFather: William Beauchamp 1st Baron Bergavenny (5G GS John I)

2G GrandFather: Thomas Beauchamp 11th Earl Warwick (5G GS Henry I)

3G GrandFather: Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick

4G GrandFather: William Beauchamp 9th Earl Warwick

4G GrandMother: Maud Fitzjohn

3G GrandMother: Alice Tosny (4G GD Henry I)

4G GrandFather: Roger Tosny (3G GS Henry I)

4G GrandMother: Alice Bohun

2G GrandMother: Katherine Mortimer (4G GD John I)

3G GrandFather: Roger Mortimer 1st Earl March (3G GS John I)

4G GrandFather: Edmund Mortimer 2nd Baron Mortimer Wigmore (2G GS John I)

4G GrandMother: Margaret Fiennes (4G GD Henry II)

3G GrandMother: Joan Geneville Joan 02 Baroness Geneville (7G GD Henry I)

4G GrandFather: Piers Geneville

4G GrandMother: Jeanne Lusignan (6G GD Henry I)

GrandMother: Joan Fitzalan (2G GD Edward I)

2G GrandFather: Richard Fitzalan 11th Earl Arundel, 9th Earl Surrey (2G GS Henry III)

3G GrandFather: Richard Fitzalan 10th Earl Arundel, 8th Earl Surrey (5G GS John I)

4G GrandFather: Edmund Fitzalan 9th Earl Arundel (4G GS John I)

4G GrandMother: Alice Warenne

3G GrandMother: Eleanor Plantagenet (1G GD Henry III)

4G GrandFather: Henry Plantagenet 3rd Earl Leicester, 3rd Earl Lancaster (GS Henry III)

4G GrandMother: Maud Chaworth

2G GrandMother: Elizabeth Bohun (1G GD Edward I)

3G GrandFather: William Bohun 1st Earl Northampton (GS Edward I)