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Elizabeth Butler, Marchioness of Ormonde (née Lady Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor; 11 October 1856 – 25 March 1928), was a British aristocrat who was the eldest daughter of Hugh Grosvenor, 1st Duke of Westminster and Lady Constance Gertrude Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (daughter of George Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd Duke of Sutherland).
- Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, 11 October 1856
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- 25 March 1928 (aged 71)
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Elizabeth Butler, Duchess of Ormonde, 2. Lady Dingwall (geborene Preston, * 25. Juli 1615; † 21. Juli 1684) war eine anglo-irische Adlige. Leben. Sie war das einzige Kind des anglo-irischen Höflings Richard Preston, 1.
- Birth and Origins
- Black Tom's Succession and Inheritance
- Father's Succession
- Marriage and Children
- Irish Wars
- Restoration, Later Life, Death, and Timeline
- Further Reading
Elizabeth Preston was born on 25 July 1615. She was the only child of Richard Preston and Elizabeth Butler. Her father was a younger son of the Prestons of Whitehill, Scottish gentry of the Edinburgh area. He was a page at the Scottish court and became a favourite of James VI of Scotland, who made him a groom of his bedchamber and ennobled him by c...
Elizabeth Preston's parents lives were overshadowed by the problems of Elizabeth's maternal grandfather's succession and inheritance. Black Tom, had settled most of his estate on his male heir, his nephew Walter, who succeeded him as Earl of Ormond in 1614, according to the normal rules of succession of his title. However, Black Tom was a Protestan...
Elizabeth was an only child. Her mother was about 30 at her birth and Elizabeth was her first child. Her father was about 35. He had married late and was a former favourite of James I. Very soon her potential to become a rich heiress was recognised and marriage plans were made. Marquess of Buckingham wanted to marry Elizabeth, aged 3, to his nephew...
At Christmas 1629, aged 14, she married her second cousin once removed, James Butler. Their common ancestor was James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, who was her great grandfather and his great-great grandfather (see Family tree). The marriage made her Viscountess Thurles as he was at the time styled Viscount Thurles, which was the courtesy title of th...
On the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, while her husband took command of the king's army in Dublin, she was living at Carrick-on-Suir where she was soon surrounded by the insurgents.She later moved to Kilkenny Castle and continued to stay there even when Kilkenny became the capital of the Catholic Confederation. She sheltered Protestant re...
Following the restoration of Charles II, Lady Ormond sent her husband political information from Ireland, and the couple were later reunited in England. In March 1661 she became Duchess of Ormond as her husband was made a duke. In 1662 she became Vicereine of Ireland as her husband was appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland, serving until 1669 and ag...
Bourke, Angela, ed. (2002). "Elizabeth Butler, Duchess of Ormond". The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. Vol. V. New York: New York University Press. p. 66. ISBN 0-8147-9907-8.– Volume title: I...Edwards, David (2003). The Ormond Lordship in County Kilkenny. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 1-85182-578-9.– (Snippet view)McAreavey, Naomi (2019). Eckerle, Julie A.; McAreavey, Naomi (eds.). The Place of Ireland in the Letters of the First Duchess of Ormonde. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 158–182. ISBN 97...- 25 July 1615
- Richard, 1st Earl of Desmond
6. Jan. 2023 · Alongside her illustrious husband, she enjoyed a dizzying ascent from Viscountess Thurles and Baroness Dingwall in her own right, to countess, marchioness, and then duchess of Ormonde. At the peak of their power, she and the duke were the most influential couple in 17th-century Ireland.
Elizabeth Butler, née Preston, Baroness Dingwall, and countess, marchioness, then duchess of Ormonde (1615–84), is the author of the largest body of extant correspondence of any woman from seventeenth-century Ireland, and was arguably the most powerful and well-connected Irish woman of her time.
- Naomi McAreavey
- 2021
Elizabeth Ormonde is mentioned in studies of mid seventeenth century Ireland, particularly in terms of her care of Protestant refugees in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion; her status as a high-profile royalist
Photograph of Elizabeth Harriet Grosvenor, Marchioness of Ormonde: head and shoulders portrait, facing the viewer but looking to her right, wearing a fur-lined coat over a dress, with peal necklace. Signed by the sitter as Lilah Ormonde. She was the daughter of the Duke of Westminster, one of the richest men in England in the second half of the ...
