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Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormonde, P.C., was born before 1450 and died on 3 August 1515. He was the son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde and Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII' s first Parliament, November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by Edward IV, which declared him and his brothers traitors, were utterly abrogated. He was afterwards sworn of the Privy Council of England, and had summons to Parliament, 14 November 1495, as "Thomas Ormond de Rochford.” He married firstly, Anne Hankford, daughter of Sir Richard Hankford, and had two daughter and co-heiresses, who inherited the English estates: A privy council is a body that advises the head of state of a nation, especially in a monarchy. ... Events March - French troops under Guy de Richemont besiege the English commander in France, Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset, in Caen April 15 - Battle of Formigny. ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 1515 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormonde was born in 1392. ... Henry VII (January 28, 1457 â€“ April 21, 1509), King of England, Lord of Ireland (August 22, 1485 â€“ April 21, 1509), was the founder and first patriarch of the Tudor dynasty. ... Edward IV (April 28, 1442 â€“ April 9, 1483) was King of England from March 4, 1461 to April 9, 1483, with a break of a few months in the period 1470â€“1471. ... Her Majestys Most Honourable Privy Council is a body of advisors to the British Sovereign. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in red and orangeâ€”the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ...

Anne Butler (b. c. 1453), married with Sir James St. Leger, and had a son.
Margaret Butler (b. c. 1455-bt 1539/40), married with Sir William Boleyn, and had issue.

He married, secondly, Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley, and widow of 3rd Lord Mountjoy and by her had another daughter.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by John Butler	Earl of Ormonde 1478–1515	Succeeded by Piers Butler

Categories: Peerage of Ireland stubs | Earls in the Peerage of Ireland | 1515 deaths The Peerage of Ireland the term used for those peers created by British monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland. ... John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormonde was born before 1449 and died in 1478. ... The peerage titles Earl, Marquess and Duke of Ormonde have a long and complex history. ...

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Butler - LoveToKnow 1911 (2219 words)
	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.
	John was restored in blood by Edward IV.; and Thomas, the 7th earl, summoned to the English parliament in 1495 as Lord Rochford, a title taken from a Bohun manor in Essex, saw the statute of attainder annulled by Henry VII.'s first parliament.
	Earl James was poisoned at a supper in Ely House in 1546, and Thomas the Black Earl, his son and heir, was brought up at the English court, professing the reformed religion.

Earl of Ormonde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (762 words)
	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.
	Subsidiary titles for the duke were Earl of Brecknock (1660) and Baron Butler (1660) in the Peerage of England and Earl of Ormonde (1328) and Earl of Ossory (1538) in the Peerage of Ireland.
	The eleventh earl 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 the United Kingdom in 1825.

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