Hon. Eleanor Butler, of Dunboyne

Hon. Eleanor Butler died in 1636. (1) From before 11 January 1567/68, her married name became FitzGerald.(1)

Parents: daughter of Edmund Butler, 1st/11th Baron Dunboyne and Julia MacCarthy.(1)

Married:

1. before 11 January 1567/68 to Gerald FitzJames FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond, son of James FitzJohn FitzGerald, 13th Earl of Desmond and Móre O'Carroll.

Children of Hon. Eleanor Butler and Gerald FitzJames FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Desmond include:

• Lady Ellice Fitzgerald+(1)
• Lady Catherine FitzGerald+(2)

Links

• http://thepeerage.com/p18429.htm#i18428
• http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00270571&tree=LEO

Citations

[# S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume IV, page 253. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.

1. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume III, page 252.

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ELEANOR BUTLER (d. 1636)

Eleanor Butler was the daughter of Edmund Butler, Lord Dunboyne (d.1567), an Irish peer, and Cecily MacCarthy. Three weeks after Gerald Fitzgerald, earl of Desmond (c.1533-November 11, 1583) buried his first wife in January of 1565, he began his courtship of Eleanor Butler. After their marriage, they were almost immediately embroiled in hostilities with the first countess’s sons by her first marriage (to James Butler, earl of Ormond). Desmond spent the next seven years in English captivity, which Eleanor voluntarily shared. From October 1570 until his release in March 1573, he was in the custody of Sir Warham St. Leger and their son James (June 6, 1570-October 1, 1601) may have been born in St. Leger House, Southwark. Their other children were Thomas, Catherine, Jane, Ellen, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Ellice. Natalie Mears in "Politics in the Elizabethan Privy Chamber" in Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450-1700 edited by James Daybell, credits Eleanor with persuading her husband to agree to English reform in Ireland and resist the rebellion of Fitzmaurice FitzGerald in 1567, and with obtaining the earl's release in 1573. When they returned to Ireland, however, their son James was left behind in England to ensure his father’s good behavior. More than six years passed before he was allowed to visit Ireland. He resided with his mother at Askeaton, Limerick, but only for a month. Then she was obliged to hand him over to the English authorities. He was kept in Ireland, a prisoner, until his father’s death, and then sent back to England and housed in the Tower of London. An account of the involvement of both the earl and countess in Irish rebellions can be found in Richard Berleth’s The Twilight Lords, An Irish Chronicle. It ended with Eleanor, a price on her head, surrendering to the English in 1582. After Desmond’s death, she was resettled near Dublin with her daughters and still resided there, living in poverty, when her son was allowed to return to Ireland in 1600. He died the following year. Eventually, Eleanor was pardoned and pensioned by Queen Elizabeth. She made several visits to London during the latter part of Queen Elizabeth’s reign and the early part of that of King James.

Name: Eleanor BUTLER Prefix: Countess 1 2 3 Sex: F Birth: ABT 1546 4 Event: (abt 90-1636) 5 Death: 1636 1 3 Burial: in/aft 1636 St. Dominick Abbey, St. Dominick, Co Sligo, Ireland 1 3

Note: 6 6

   Memorial Inscription brass in the Abbey of St. Dominick Church, St. Dominick, Co Sligo, Ireland

1st husband Sir Gerald "The Rebel" FitzJames FitzGerald

   2nd husband Sir Donogh O'Connor Sligo,

   Text: p. 254

   Text: pp. 252-254

Father: Edmund BUTLER b: 1524 Mother: Julia MACCARTHY (MACARTY, MCCARTHY) b: in Of Muskerry, Co Cork, Ireland

Marriage 1 Gerald "The Rebel Earl" FitzJames FITZGERALD b: ABT 1533

   Married: bef 11 Jan 1567/1568 3

Children

   Has No Children Catherine FITZGERALD

Has No Children James "The Queen's Earl" "The Tower Earl" FitzGerald FITZGERALD b: Jul/Aug 1571 in St. Leger House, Southwark, London, Cy Middlesex, England
Has No Children Ellen FITZGERALD
Has No Children Elizabeth FITZGERALD
Has No Children Margaret FITZGERALD
Has No Children Ellice FITZGERALD
Has No Children Thomas FITZGERALD
Marriage 2 Donogh O'Connor SLIGO

   Married: bet 7 Jun 1597/2 Feb 1597/1598 3

Sources:

   Text: Brian Tompsett's Royal Genealogy & Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, World Wide Web site: Available: [Online]: www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal

Title: Cokayne's Complete Peerage

   Author: George E. Cokayne

   Publication: 1887, 1910-1959, 1984

   Repository: Book

   Repository: Cont. by John Young

Text: the best source for British gentry and nobility

   Text: Vol. 2-IV, p. 517

Text: Cokayne's Complete Peerage - Earls of Desmond, Vol. IV, 1916 edition, pp. 232-258

   Text: pp. 252-254

Text: Calculated approximately
Text: Cokayne's Complete Peerage - Earls of Desmond, Vol. IV, 1916 edition, pp. 232-258

   Text: p. 254 fn 'a'

Text: Cokayne's Complete Peerage - Earls of Desmond, Vol. IV, 1916 edition, pp. 232-258
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