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Lady Margaret Butler
Lady Margaret Butler, Lady Boleyn (c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn, was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, and great-grandmother of Anne and Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I of England.
Life.
She was born at Kilkenny Castle in County Kilkenny, Ireland,
of James Butler, 10th Baron Dunboyne. From this marriage were born the Lady Margaret Barry who subsequently married Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy as her first husband; the Lady Ellen Barry who subsequently married John Fitzgerald of Ballymaloe; the Lady Helen Barry who married Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde; and the Honourable David Fitz-David Barry who predeceased his father. He married secondly, Julia MacCarthy, daughter of Cormac MacCarthy and Joan Butler.
At the outbreak of the Desmond Rebellions, his father, the then Viscount Buttevant, supported