Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond [SEP] father
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde, 3rd Earl of Ossory, Viscount Thurles (; c. 153122 November 1614), was an Irish peer and the son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and Lady Joan Fitzgerald daughter and heiress-general of James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond. He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland and a very prominent personage during the latter part of the 16th century.
Career.
He built the Tudor Manor House extension to Ormonde Castle on his
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