Sir James Butler

✓ DOCUMENTED (Wikipedia 'Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond' (citing Cokayne Complete Peerage VI, Lodge, DIB, Dunboyne Butler Family History); read 23 Jul 2026.): SIR JAMES BUTLER OF POLESTOWN (d.1487), Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord of the manor & advowson of Callan; head of the POLESTOWN CADET BRANCH of the Butlers; laid claim to the Ormond lands in the earls' absence. m. SABH (Sadhbh) KAVANAGH. Father of Piers, 8th Earl of Ormond (our line). *** THE EDWARD I DESCENT RUNS THROUGH HIS PATERNAL BUTLER LINE: Sir James <- [Polestown generations] <- SIR RICHARD BUTLER OF POLESTOWN (2nd son of James Butler, 3RD EARL OF ORMOND) <- 2nd Earl <- JAMES BUTLER 1ST EARL OF ORMOND x ELEANOR DE BOHUN (granddau. of EDWARD I). The intermediate Polestown generations (Sir Richard -> Sir James) need Cokayne's Complete Peerage vol. VI (Ormond) to wire - FLAGGED. Direct ancestor. Added 23 Jul 2026. ||CP ORMOND READ 6 Aug 2026 (p.145)|| CONFIRMED IN CP: 'Sir James BUTLER, of Callan (by Sabina, da. of Donald Reagh MacMorrogh KAVANAGH)'; CP footnote (e) preserves the Book of Howth account: his elder sons, born 'after affyance... but before the spousells', were LEGITIMATED by the Irish Parliament early in 1468, while Sir Piers, 'as the eldest son born within the spousells', needed no act - the Kavanagh marriage stands in parliament's own record.