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The Wandering Butler: John, 6th Earl of Ormond

Dec 14, 2022

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FAMILY BACKGROUND The Lancastrian leader who faced – or failed to face – Thomas, Earl of Desmond, at the Battle of Piltown in 1462 was the fourth of the five children born to James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond (otherwise known as the White Earl), and his countess Joan Beauchamp, daughter of William Beauchamp, Lord…
More Tyrrells, this time in Oxfordshire. One family or two?

Aug 29, 2017

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This (below) is Shotover Park in Oxfordshire, formerly part of the Wychwood royal hunting forest. It became the property of one Timothy Tyrrell in 1613, the year after the death of Henry Stuart, Prince of Wales, whom Tyrrell had served as Master of the Royal Buckhounds. Tyrrell was further honoured with a knighthood in 1624…

Guisnes

The Wandering Butler: John, 6th Earl of Ormond

More Tyrrells, this time in Oxfordshire. One family or two?