Joan Butler (née Beauchamp), Countess of Ormond (1396 – 3 or 5 August 1430) was the first wife of

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, and the mother of his five children. Their principal residence was

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in Ireland.

Life

Joan de Beauchamp was the daughter of William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, and his first wife, Lady Joan FitzAlan. She had a brother and sister: * Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, 2nd Baron Bergavenny ( – 18 March 1422), who married Lady Isabel le Despenser (27 July 1400 – 26 or 27 December 1439), by whom he had one daughter, Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny. *Elizabeth de Beauchamp. Joan's paternal grandparents were

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and Lady Katherine Mortimer, and her maternal grandparents were

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and Elizabeth de Bohun. Joan de Beauchamp died 3 or 5 August 1430, and was buried in the Mercers' Chapel, St Thomas of Acre,

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Marriage and issue

She married, before 28 August 1413,

, by whom she had three sons and two daughters: * James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, who died without legitimate issue. *

John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond (died 14 December 1476) was considered one of the first gentlemen of the age in which he lived. He was an ambassador to the most important courts of Europe. Family John Butler, 6th Earl of Ormond was the second ...

, who died without legitimate issue. *

Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond PC (1426 – 3 August 1515) was the youngest son of James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond. He was attainted, but restored by Henry VII's first Parliament in November 1485, and the statutes made at Westminster, b ...

, whose daughter Margaret was a grandmother of

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. *Elizabeth Butler, who married John Talbot, 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury and had issue. *Anne Butler, who died unmarried.

Ancestry

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