Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond [SEP] father
Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond, P.C. (1426 – 3 August 1515) was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII' s first Parliament in November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, by Edward IV, which declared him and his brothers traitors, were abrogated.
Family.
Thomas Butler was the third son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond, by his first wife,
bridegroom to his cousin Anne Boleyn in 1522 in an attempt to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the earldom of Ormond to which Anne's father, Sir Thomas Boleyn had a claim as his mother had been Lady Margaret Butler, eldest daughter of the 7th earl of Ormond. For reasons unknown, the marriage negotiations came to a halt and Anne later became the second wife of King Henry VIII of England.
James and Joan had seven sons:
- Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond (c.1532- 22