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From: "Tony Hoskins" <>
Subject: Butler, Earls of Ormond and Thomas Becket
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:09:48 -0700


The Butlers, Earls of Ormond, descended from family of Thomas Becket?

"Ormond died at Ardee, Louth, on 23 August 1452, possibly of plague,
after an arduous, six-week campaign beginning in Tipperary. A devotee of
St Thomas Becket, from whose family his claimed descent, he had close
links with Canterbury Cathedral priory and the London hospital of St
Thomas of Acre, burial-place of Countess Joan, but his body remained in
Ireland. Although also a patron of St Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny, and
the abbeys of Jerpoint, near Thomastown, and Holy Cross, Tipperary, he
was buried at St Mary's Abbey, Dublin, of which he had claimed (c.1423)
to be 'on of the chef founders nexte the kyng' (Griffith, 395)."

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Elizabeth Matthew, 'Butler, James, fourth earl of Ormond (1390-1452)',
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept
2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4187,
accessed 12 Sept 2008]





Anthony Hoskins
History, Genealogy and Archives Librarian
Sonoma County Archivist
Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library
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