Joan Butler

✓ Joan, da. of Piers (Butler), 8th Earl of Ormond and 1st Earl of Ossory (I99710) by Margaret FitzGerald (I99711); wife of James Butler of Dunboyne (d. 15 Jan 1538); mother of Edmund 1st Baron Dunboyne and of Ellen, Lady Roche (I100221). CP IV 'Dunboyne' p.516: Edmund 's. and h. of James B., of Dunboyne, co. Meath (d. 15 Jan. 1538), by Joan, da. of Piers (Butler), Earl of Ossory and Ormond'; Lodge, Peerage of Ireland (1789) iv p.21: 'Lady Joan, to James Butler Lord Dunboyne'. CP V 'Fermoy' p.293 instead calls Ellen's mother 'Joan, da. of James Butler, of Dunboyne' - an evident slip. RING 26 Oct 2026: sister of Helen Butler (I99627), Countess of Thomond. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. IV (1916), 'Dunboyne' p.516, read 26 Oct 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 26 Oct 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]