Generation No. 12
2048. James Butler128, born Abt. 1496; died 1546 in London, England. He was the son of 4096. 1st Earl of Ossory Pierce Butler and 4097. Margaret FITZGERALD. He married 2049. Joan FITZGERALD Bef. 21 Dec 1532.
2049. Joan FITZGERALD
Notes for James Butler:
Called "The Lame". Viscount Thurles, E. Ossory. Brought up at the Court of Henry VIII who had a high regard for him and created him Viscount Thurles in the lifetime of his father. The King's policy was to equalise as far as possible the influence of the rival houses of Butler and FitzGerald. For 14 years James was Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, and he was given no less than seven religious establishments on the Dissolution of the Monasteries. Then, 17 Oct 1546 at the age of 42, he went with his servants to be entertained to supper at Ely House in Holborn and he and they were mortally poisoned. His steward and 16 of his servants reportedly died of the same. The confusion caused by his Will gave rise to the founding of the Irish Public Record Office.
More About James Butler:
Burial: St. Thomas of Acon, London
More About James Butler and Joan FITZGERALD:
Marriage: Bef. 21 Dec 1532
Children of James Butler and Joan FITZGERALD are:
1024 i. Sir Edmund Butler, died 1602.
ii. Thomas Butler, died 1614.
iii. John Butler, died 1570.
iv. James BUTLER, born in of Duisk.
v. Walter BUTLER, born in of Nodstown.
vi. Edward BUTLER, born in of Ballinahinch.
vii. Piers BUTLER, born in of Grantstown.
2052. SIR ANTHONY Colclough, born 1520 in Staffordshire, England; died 09 Dec 1584 in Tintern Abbey, Ireland. He was the son of 4104. RICHARD Colclough and 4105. Eleanor Draycote. He married 2053. Clare Agard.
2053. Clare Agard, born Bet. 1518 - 1535 in Of Foxton, Derby; died 1590. She was the daughter of 4106. Sir Thomas Agard.
Notes for SIR ANTHONY Colclough:
Of Anthony's seven sons, apart from John who lived in Staffordshire and succeeded his uncle as steward of the family estates, we have information only about Thomas, the eldest to survive infancy, and Leonard both of whom were born at Rosegarland. They had completely different temperaments, Leonard being impetuous, excitable and irascible whilst Thomas was cool, calculating and long-sighted. Even before their parents' death they were quarreling over which of them would possess the Agard Hackney mansion under the terms of their mother's marriage settlement, and Sir Anthony had to include in his will a proviso that if they engaged in litigation over the Hackney property both would forfeit all rights under the will.
Sir Anthony Colclough, a member of the Staffordshire who was a soldier in the Queen's army. Anthony arrived in Ireland in 1543 and was granted, in 1575 by Queen Elizabeth, all lands and estates of the old monastary of Tintern Abbey in Co Wexford. Suffering the same fate as the Cullens and other Catholic families, these lands held by the Colcloughs were lost during the Cromwellian confiscations of the 1640's. Listed among the estates was Bally Cullan (or Coloun), the old name for Cullenstown. The Colcloughs regained their holdings after 1665 under the terms of the Act of Explanation. The Colcloughs lived in the old Abbey until as recently as 1958 when Miss Lucy Colclough turned it over to the Irish government.
Sir Anthony Colclough,Kt.(1582),of Bluerton,Staffordshire,and Wolstanton, Staffordshire ,and Tintern Abbey,co Wexford (which was granted to him and his heirs in fee by Patent 27 Aug 1575,following expiry of lease held by Sir James Crofts - according to Burke's Irish Family Records)(JRC says that Anthony sub-leased the Abbey, at first, from Thomas Wood) .He was also a Liveryman of the Drapers Company of the City of London.Hewas High Sheriff of Wexford in 1581.He was also a member of the Royal Household commanding the Gentlemen at Arns. His spelling was described as "deplorable". JRC also says that the Abbey was granted to Anthony by the Queen, in consideration of his 28 years of unpaid service to the Crown, on 10 October 1566 subject to an obligation to fortify the Abbey within three years and to maintain there three English horsemen and four archers or arquebusiers and to pay a rent of #22.2s.8d. Anthony must have also turned the Abbey into a magnificent residence. In 1579 guests at Tintern included not only the Lord Deputy Drury but also the Lord Justice Sir William Pelham and the whole military force he commanded.
The Abbey was founded in 1200 by the Earl of Pembroke in fulfilment of a vow he had made during a shipwreck that if he survived he would found an abbey on whatever spot he might reach the shore,and having built the Abbey he manned it with Cistercian monks from Tintern Abbey in Wales which had been founded 70 years earlier.The monks had moved to France long before Anthony moved into the Abbey.
He went to Ireland abt 1540,Captain of Queen Elizabeth I's Band of Pensioners,Military Governor co Wexford 1559.(BIFR says" Band of Puritans" which is not correct. The descendants of Sir Anthony are supposed to be under the "curse of fire and water" but only a few met violent deaths.Four were killed in duels,two were hanged,three died in battle, two were killed in riding accidents,one killed by the bursting of a gun-barrel and one given a dose of arsenic by his wife. Not too bad for an Irish family of the time!
Children of SIR Colclough and Clare Agard are:
1026 i. Sir Thomas Colclough, born 01 Apr 1564 in Rosegarland, Wexford, Ireland; died Aug 1626; married Martha Loftus Abt. 1589 in Ireland.
ii. Leonard Colclough, married Honora Walsh; born in of Blue Cranach.
Notes for Leonard Colclough:
On his marriage to Honora, daughter of William Walsh of Blue Cranach, Lord of the Walsh Mountains, Leonard had moved from Tintern and taken up his residence at Ballyknocken in Queens County. He was High Sheriff of Wexford in 1596. Unfortunately troubles in Wexford were not so far away from Ballyknocken as to prevent his participation. The policy of pacification had long since broken down and in 1596 full-scale rebellion engulfed Wexford.
2054. ADAM LOFTUS129,130,131,132,133,134, born 1533; died 04 May 1605. He was the son of 4108. Edward Loftus.
Notes for ADAM LOFTUS:
Much has been written about the talented but zealous Archbishop (Abp) Adam Loftus whose life was suffused with intrigue and controversy. Adam was born in 1533 the second son of a monastic bailiff in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales who died when Adam was only 8, leaving his estates to his elder brother Robert. As an undergraduate at Cambridge University, he reportedly attracted the notice of the young Queen Elizabeth, as much it seems by alluring physique as through the power of his intellect, having shone before her with his powers of oratory. There is good reason to believe that this particular encounter may never have taken place but they certainly met more than once and the Queen was to become his patron, a relationship that was to last her entire reign, coming to Adam’s rescue at a number of times in his life when other less tolerant patrons might have withheld sanction. Adam Loftus was appointed as one of the Queen’s Chaplains before she sent him to Ireland around 1559 as Chaplain to the Lord Deputy, where he was rapidly promoted to Primate of Ireland, becoming Archbishop of Armagh at the unprecedented age of 28. Following a catastrophic clash with Shane O’Neill, the real power in the province during these years, he came to the See of Dublin in 1564 and was offered the Deanery of St. Patrick’s Cathedral “in lieu of better times ahead”. As Archbishop and Protestant Primate of Ireland and later Lord Chancellor, Keeper of the Royal Seal, etc. Adam became the most powerful administrator in Ireland, which he seems largely to have accrued to the benefit of his family. Much has been written about Adam during this time, which has no place here, but between 1584 and 1591, he had a series of clashes with Sir John Perrot on the location of an Irish University. Perrot wanted to use St. Patrick’s as the site of the new University, which Adam sought to preserve as the principal place of Protestant worship in Dublin as well as a valuable source of income for himself. Adam won the argument with the help of his ever patient Patron, and Trinity College was born at its current location, named after his old college at Cambridge (with Adam its first Provost in 1593) leaving St. Patrick’s Cathedral unassailed. It was fitting, therefore, that Adam should be buried in the building he helped to preserve for future generations, with the many faces of his portraits still hanging within the learned walls of the University which he co-founded. Having buried his wife and two sons in the vault he had prepared for his wife, Abp. Adam Loftus was 71 when he finally died at his Episcopal Palace in Kavan Street “worn out with age” and was interred with his family in the same vault.
Child of ADAM LOFTUS is:
1027 i. Martha Loftus, born 1575 in OF ARMAGH; died 1610; married Sir Thomas Colclough Abt. 1589 in Ireland.
2246. William Glover135, died 1570.
Child of William Glover is:
1123 i. Mary Glover, married ,Dean of Lichfield Lawrence Nowell.
2252. Richard Burnaby136, born Abt. 1530 in of Watford and Mount Sorel, Northamptonshire, England. He was the son of 4504. Thomas Burnaby and 4505. Elizabeth Taylor. He married 2253. Anne Wodhull Abt. 1555 in England.
2253. Anne Wodhull137, born Abt. 1532 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England. She was the daughter of 4506. Nicholas Wodhull and 4507. Elizabeth Parr.
More About Richard Burnaby and Anne Wodhull:
Marriage: Abt. 1555, England
Child of Richard Burnaby and Anne Wodhull is:
1126 i. Thomas Burnaby, born Abt. 1558 in of Waterford, Northamptonshire, England; died 1610; married Elizabeth Sapcott Abt. 1580 in England.
2254. dward Sapcott, born Abt. 1533 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. He married 2255. Anne Burton.
2255. Anne Burton, born Abt. 1540 in Coates, England.
Child of Edward Sapcott and Anne Burton is:
1127 i. Elizabeth Sapcott, born Abt. 1560 in England; married Thomas Burnaby Abt. 1580 in England.
2304. Wyllm Embry, born in Wales or France.
Child of Wyllm Embry is:
1152 i. John Emberie, born 1595 in France.
Generation No. 13
4096. 1st Earl of Ossory Pierce Butler138,139,140, born Abt. 1467; died 26 Aug 1539 in St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ireland. He was the son of 8192. Sir James Butler and 8193. Sabine KAVANAGH. He married 4097. Margaret FITZGERALD Abt. 1485.
4097. Margaret FITZGERALD, born Bef. 1475; died 1542. She was the daughter of 8194. 8th Earl of Kildare Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald and 8195. Alison Eustace.
Notes for 1st Earl of Ossory Pierce Butler:
October 18, 1536 - Inspeximus by Henry VIII in 1536 of acts of Parliament relative to the descent of the Earldom of Ormond. Dame Anne Seintleger, widow, daughter and heir of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, and Anne's son George Seintleger, knight, are mentioned in the document. Its object is to prevent Edmund and Theobald Bulter, elder but illegitimate brothers of Sir Piers Butler, and their heirs from benefiting by an act of legitimation passed in the Irish parliament in 1468 in their favor. Sir Piers Butler was created Earl of Ossory in February 1528 at the time the agreement made between the King and the various heirs of Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond. [Vol II, p.206-9; 366-9] The Calendar of Ormond Deeds, Edmund Curtis, 1933-1941
Known as the "Red Piers". 1st. Seneschal of the Liberty of Tipperary. Chief Governor of Ireland. Piers married Margaret FitzGerald, daughter of the 8th Earl of Kildare. This couple were great builders. They are credited with important additions to Granagh Castle in Kilkenny; they rebuilt another Butler castle at Gowran, Kilkenny; founded Kilkenny College (one of Ireland's oldest surviving schools) in 1536 and they were also responsible for work at Ormond Castle.
In the early years of their marriage Piers and his wife were reduced to penury by Sir James Dubh "Black James" Ormond, the ambitious agent, and bastard nephew, of the absentee Thomas, 7° Earl of Ormond. Such was their plight that they were forced to lurk in the woods where Margaret, being great with child and upon necessity constrained to use a spare diet (for her only sustenance was milk) she longed sore for wine; and calling her lord and a trusty servant of his, James White, unto her, she requested them both to help her to some wine. "Truly, Margaret', quoth Sir Piers, 'Thou shalt have store of wine within this four and twenty hours, or else thou shalt feed alone on milk for me'.
The next day following Piers, having intelligence that his enemy, the base Butler, would have travelled from Donmore to Kilkenny; notwithstanding he were accompanied with six horesemen, yet Piers having none but his lackey, did forestal him in the way, and with a courageous charge gored the bastard through with his spear. Piers himself then became Ormond's agent and presumably Margaret got her wine. But it required all his pertinacity to get himself recognised as the true heir to the earldom. The existence of two elder brothers would have been an insuperable stumbling block, had not both of them been born before their parents had received the necessary papal dispensation for marriage. Then there was the Boleyn bombshell.
Forced to give up Earldom of Ormonde to Anne Boleyn's father, Sir Thomas Boleyn, in 1529, after Henry VIII fell for her, in return Butler was created 1st Earl of Ossory. After the fall of Anne Boleyn 1536, and the death shortly after without male heir of her father, he succeeded in regaining Earldom of Ormonde, always numbered as 8th Earl (Boleyn not counted). Piers emerged from the interlude with two Earldoms and died the next year in 1539. He was the first of the earls of Ormond to be buried in St Canice's Cathedral.
More About Pierce Butler and Margaret FITZGERALD:
Marriage: Abt. 1485
Children of Pierce Butler and Margaret FITZGERALD are:
2048 i. James Butler, born Abt. 1496; died 1546 in London, England; married Joan FITZGERALD Bef. 21 Dec 1532.
ii. Richard Butler, died 20 May 1571.
More About Richard Butler:
Burial: St. Canice's, Kilkenny, Ireland
iii. Margaret BUTLER
iv. Thomas BUTLER
v. Richard BUTLER
vi. Edmund BUTLER (Archbishop of Cashel)
vii. Catherine BUTLER
viii. Joan BUTLER
4104. RICHARD Colclough, born Bet. 1488 - 1495 in Staffordshire, England. He was the son of 8208. John Colclough and 8209. Agnes Lockwood. He married 4105. Eleanor Draycote.
4105. Eleanor Draycote, born Abt. 1500 in Paynesley, England; died Bet. 1515 - 1605. She was the daughter of 8210. Sir John Draycote, Of Paynsley and 8211. Elizabeth Eyre.
More About RICHARD Colclough:
Residence: Of Bluerton
Children of RICHARD Colclough and Eleanor Draycote are:
2052 i. SIR ANTHONY Colclough, born 1520 in Staffordshire, England; died 09 Dec 1584 in Tintern Abbey, Ireland; married (1) Clare Agard; married (2) Thomasina Sutton.
ii. Matthew Colclough, Of London
iii. Margaret Colclough, born Bet. 1522 - 1554.
iv. Richard Colclough
v. John Colclough, born Bet. 1523 - 1540.
4106. Sir Thomas Agard, born in Of Foxton.
Child of Sir Thomas Agard is:
2053 i. Clare Agard, born Bet. 1518 - 1535 in Of Foxton, Derby; died 1590; married SIR ANTHONY Colclough.
4108. Edward Loftus, born in of Swineshead.
Children of Edward Loftus are:
2054 i. ADAM LOFTUS, born 1533; died 04 May 1605; married (2) JANE PURDON.
ii. Robert Loftus
4504. Thomas Burnaby141, born Abt. 1500 in of Watford, Northamptonshire, England. He married 4505. Elizabeth Taylor.
4505. Elizabeth Taylor142, born Abt. 1505.
Child of Thomas Burnaby and Elizabeth Taylor is:
2252 i. Richard Burnaby, born Abt. 1530 in of Watford and Mount Sorel, Northamptonshire, England; married Anne Wodhull Abt. 1555 in England.
4506. Nicholas Wodhull143, born 1482 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England,; died 06 May 1531 in of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England. He was the son of 9012. Fulk Wodhull and 9013. Anne Newenham. He married 4507. Elizabeth Parr Abt. 1523.
4507. Elizabeth Parr144, born Abt. 1499 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died Bef. 1531. She was the daughter of 9014. ,Knight William Parr and 9015. Mary Salisbury.
More About Nicholas Wodhull and Elizabeth Parr:
Marriage: Abt. 1523
Children of Nicholas Wodhull and Elizabeth Parr are:
2253 i. Anne Wodhull, born Abt. 1532 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; married Richard Burnaby Abt. 1555 in England.
ii. Mary Wahull, born Abt. 1528 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England.
iii. Fulk Wahull, born 1530 in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England; died 24 Nov 1613 in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England.
Generation No. 14
8192. Sir James Butler145, born 1437 in Callan, Kilkenny, Ireland; died 16 Apr 1487. He was the son of 16384. Sir Richard Butler and 16385. Catherine O'CARROLL. He married 8193. Sabine KAVANAGH.
8193. Sabine KAVANAGH
Children of Sir Butler and Sabine KAVANAGH are:
4096 i. 1st Earl of Ossory Pierce Butler, born Abt. 1467; died 26 Aug 1539 in St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ireland; married Margaret FITZGERALD Abt. 1485.
ii. Edmund BUTLER
Notes for Edmund BUTLER:
disbarred from title because born before parents got dispensation for marriage, ancestor of Butler of Newchome, Kilkenny
8194. 8th Earl of Kildare Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald He married 8195. Alison Eustace.
8195. Alison Eustace
Child of Gerald FitzGerald and Alison Eustace is:
4097 i. Margaret FITZGERALD, born Bef. 1475; died 1542; married 1st Earl of Ossory Pierce Butler Abt. 1485.
8208. John Colclough, born Bet. 1436 - 1468; died Bet. 1523 - 1555. He was the son of 16416. RICHARD Colclough and 16417. Blanche Dorington. He married 8209. Agnes Lockwood.
8209. Agnes Lockwood, born Bet. 1444 - 1471; died Bet. 1493 - 1561. She was the daughter of 16418. Richard Lockwood, Of Lockwood and 16419. Margaret DE VERNEY.
More About John Colclough:
Residence: Of Bluerton
More About Agnes Lockwood:
Residence: Of Lockwood
Children of John Colclough and Agnes Lockwood are:
4104 i. RICHARD Colclough, born Bet. 1488 - 1495 in Staffordshire, England; married Eleanor Draycote.
ii. Ralph Colclough, born Abt. 1488.
iii. John Colclough
iv. Thomas Colclough, Of Delphhouse, born Bet. 1488 - 1505.
v. Norman Colclough
8210. Sir John Draycote, Of Paynsley, born Abt. 1455; died 15 May 1522. He was the son of 16420. Roger de Draycote and 16421. Catharina Savage. He married 8211. Elizabeth Eyre Bet. 1467 - 1529.
8211. Elizabeth Eyre, born Abt. 1455. She was the daughter of 16422. Robert Eyre and 16423. Joan Padley.
More About Sir Draycote and Elizabeth Eyre:
Marriage: Bet. 1467 - 1529
Children of Sir Draycote and Elizabeth Eyre are:
4105 i. Eleanor Draycote, born Abt. 1500 in Paynesley, England; died Bet. 1515 - 1605; married RICHARD Colclough.
ii. Elizabeth Draycote, married Simon Rugley.
9012. Fulk Wodhull146, born Abt. 1459 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died Abt. 1508 in of Warkworth and Thenford, Northamptonshire, England. He married 9013. Anne Newenham.
9013. Anne Newenham147, born Abt. 1463 in Thenford, Oxfordshire, England. She was the daughter of 18026. William Newenham.
Children of Fulk Wodhull and Anne Newenham are:
4506 i. Nicholas Wodhull, born 1482 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England,; died 06 May 1531 in of Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; married Elizabeth Parr Abt. 1523.
ii. Thomas Wahull, born Abt. 1484 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England.
iii. Lawrence Wahull, born Abt. 1486 in Fringford, Mollington, Oxfordshire, England; died 1551.
iv. Mary Wahull, born Abt. 1488 in Towes, Lincolnshire, England.
v. Isabel Wahull, born Abt. 1490 in Newton, Northamptonshire, England.
vi. Jane Wahull, born Abt. 1492 in Thenford, Northamptonshire, England.
9014. ,Knight William Parr148, born Abt. 1483 in Kendall, Westmoreland, England; died Nov 1546 in Horton, England. He was the son of 18028. William Parr and 18029. Elizabeth FitzHugh. He married 9015. Mary Salisbury Bef. 1511.
9015. Mary Salisbury149, born Abt. 1475 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England.
More About William Parr and Mary Salisbury:
Marriage: Bef. 1511
Children of William Parr and Mary Salisbury are:
4507 i. Elizabeth Parr, born Abt. 1499 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England; died Bef. 1531; married Nicholas Wodhull Abt. 1523.
ii. Anne Parr, born Abt. 1490 in England.
