Earl of Ormonde

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The peerage titles Earl, Marquess and Duke of Ormonde have a long and complex history.

Wikisource has an original article from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica about:

An earldom of Ormonde has been created three times in the Peerage of Ireland. It was originally created in 1328 for James Butler. The fifth earl was created Earl of Wiltshire (1449) in the Peerage of England, but he was attainted in 1461 and his peerages were declared forfeit. The earldom of Ormonde was restored to the sixth earl, John Butler, but returned to the crown on the death of the seventh earl.

It was next created in 1529 for Thomas Boleyn, Viscount Rochford, who was also created Earl of Wiltshire in the Peerage of England. On his death these peerages became extinct.

The third creation was for Piers Butler, in 1538. The fifth earl of this creation was made Marquess of Ormonde (1642) and Duke of Ormonde (1660) in the Peerage of Ireland, and Duke of Ormonde (1682) in the Peerage of England. Subsidiary titles for the duke were Earl of Brecknock (1660) and Baron Butler (1660) in the Peerage of England and Earl of Ormonde (1328), Earl of Ossory (1538) and Viscount Thurles (1536) in the Peerage of Ireland. In 1715 the second duke was attainted and his English peerages declared forfeit. In 1758 the de jure third duke (Irish) died and the dukedom and marquessate became extinct. The eleventh earl was created the Marquess of Ormonde in the Peerage of Ireland in 1816, on his death that title became extinct and the earldoms passed to his brother, for whom the title Marquess of Ormonde was created in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1825. That title became extinct in 1997, while the earldom became dormant.

The Earldom was twice created in the Peerage of Scotland, both times for members of the Douglas family. The first creation was in 1445 for a brother of the 8th and 9th Earls of Douglas who forfeited it in 1455. In 1651 was the second Scottish creation which bcame extinct in 1715.

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and also creations in the Peerage of the UK.

The presumed successors of the 7th marquess in the Earldoms of Ormonde and Ossory have been the 17th and 18th Viscount Mountgarret, descending in the male line from a younger son of the 8th Earl, but the claim has not been proven, because there is still the chance of possible male descendants of sons of the 9th earl.

The title Marquess of Ormonde has also existed several times in the Peerage of Scotland, although the "Ormond" here is not the Irish district, but the castle at Avoch in the Black Isle, held by the Douglas family when they first obtained the title. Between 1488 and 1504 it was a subsidiary title of the Dukes of Ross, until the latter's extinction in 1504. It was created a second time in 1600 as a subsidiary title for the future King Charles I, the Duke of Albany. The title merged with the crown in 1625, and there it has remained.

  • Hugh Douglas, Earl of Ormonde (d. 1455) (forfeit 1455)

Subsidiary title of this Earldom was Lord Bothwell and Hartside (Peerage of Scotland, 1651).

then the earldom went to the Earls of Forfar, creation of 1661 and became extinct after the 2nd Earl of Forfar died without issue in 1715.

Subsidiary title to this Earldom was Lord Wandell and Hartside (Peerage of Scotland, 1661).

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