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(c. 1426- 3 August 1515). She was the great-grandmother of

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. She was a daughter and co-heiress of Sir

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(c. 1397 – 1431) of

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, Devon,

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(grandson of Sir

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(c. 1350 – 1400). Her paternal grandparents were Richard Hankford and Thomasine de Stapeldon. Her maternal grandparents were John Montagu and Maud Francis, daughter of Sir Adam Francis,

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. She married Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond before 1450. He was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond and Joan de Beauchamp. They had two daughters: *

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, the father of

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, by his wife

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*Lady Anne Butler (born c. 1455) who married Sir James St. Leger. *Theobold Butler (1477–1560) Anne died on 13 November 1485, in the same month of the restoration of the estates and title of Ormonde to her husband by King Henry VII's first Parliament. Thomas Butler and his brothers had been declared traitors by King Edward IV, who had had statutes made against them at

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. After her death, Thomas Butler married Lora Berkeley, daughter of Sir Edward Berkeley, by whom he had a daughter who died young. In 1509, he was appointed Queen Catherine of Aragon's first

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. Fraser, Antonia ''The Wives of Henry VIII.'' Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 1992. pp. 59, 117

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Accessed December 18, 2007 * Bruce, Marie Louise ''Anne Boleyn.'' New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1972 1431 births 1485 deaths Ormond {{UK-noble-stub