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James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, KG (1665–1745) was an Irish statesman and soldier. He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond. Like his grandfather, the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to Roman Catholicism. He served in the campaign to put ...
Apr 25, 2024 · James Butler, 2nd duke of Ormonde (born April 29, 1665, Dublin, Ire.—died Nov. 16, 1745, Avignon, France) was an Irish general, one of the most powerful men in the Tory administration that governed England from 1710 to 1714. The grandson of the Irish statesman James Butler, 1st duke of Ormonde, he inherited his grandfather’s title in 1688 ...
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Butler, James. Butler, James (1665–1745), 2nd duke of Ormond, soldier, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and Jacobite, was born 29 April 1665 in Dublin castle, second but eldest surviving son of Thomas Butler (qv), 6th earl of Ossory, and his wife Emilia, daughter of Lodewijk van Nassau, Heer van Beverwaert, Dutch envoy to England (and himself an ...
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James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde; a Jacobite sympathiser, his titles became forfeit in 1715 James Fitzjames Butler succeeded his grandfather and became the second duke. Accused of treason during the Jacobite rising of 1715 , he was attainted and his English peerages declared forfeit.
Bruce Philip Lenman. *Ormond, James Butler, 2nd duke of* (1665–1745). Butler, born in Dublin [1], was heir of the earl of Ossory. Succeeding in 1680, he lived with his grandfather, the 1st duke, in Ireland [2] until 1682. He fought for James II against Monmouth's [3] rising in 1685.
Butler, James. Butler, James (1610–88), 12th earl and 1st duke of Ormond, was born 19 October 1610 at Clerkenwell, Middlesex, England, eldest son of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles , and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Poyntz, of Iron Acton, Gloucestershire. Thurles was son and heir to Walter Butler (qv), 11th earl, who succeeded to ...
"2nd duke of Ormond, James Butler" published on by null. (1665–1745). Succeeding his grandfather in July 1688, he supported the petition to James for a free parliament, then accepted William of Orange, for whom he fought in Ireland and Flanders.
