Cook Family Ancestry Piers Butler 8th Earl of Ormonde [13789] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Piers Butler 8th Earl of Ormonde [13789]
(Abt 1467-1539)

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Spouses/Children:
Margaret FitzGerald Countess Ormonde [14820]

Piers Butler 8th Earl of Ormonde [13789] ²⁴

Born: Abt 1467
Marriage: Margaret FitzGerald Countess Ormonde [14820] about 1485
Died: 26 Aug 1539 about age 72
Buried: St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ireland

bullet General Notes:

1528 Earl of Ossory 1st. Seneschal of the Liberty of Tipperary.
Chief Governor of Ireland. Known as the "Red Piers".

http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal08017

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER.htm#Piers%20BUTLER%20(8°%20E.%20Ormonde)

See his Biography <http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/PiersButler(8EOrmonde).htm>.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Earl of Ormonde, 1515. Earl of Ormonde 1515-1539

Piers married Margaret FitzGerald Countess Ormonde [14820] [MRIN: 6499], daughter of Gerald FitzGerald 8th Earl of Kildare [14821] and Alison FitzEustace [14822], about 1485. (Margaret FitzGerald Countess Ormonde [14820] died on 9 Aug 1542 and was buried in St. Canice, Kilkenny, Ireland.)

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Piers Butler 8th Earl of Ormonde [13789] ²⁴