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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 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.
6 de ene. de 2023 · This letter reveals the marchioness of Ormonde’s involvement in a Royalist intelligence network based in Caen, Normandy, where she lived in exile with her children and other Irish Royalists.
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 ).
Marquess of Buckingham wanted to marry Elizabeth, aged 3, to his nephew George Feilding. The ancient Anglo-Irish family of the Earls of Desmond - from which Elizabeth was in part descended through her mother - had rebelled against the English crown and been stripped of that title in the 1580s.
9 de jun. de 2021 · This accompanies Naomi McAreavey’s Irish Historical Studies article Female alliances in Cromwellian Ireland: the social and political network of Elizabeth Butler, marchioness of Ormonde. The marquess and marchioness of Ormonde were the ultimate power couple of seventeenth-century Ireland.
A B S T R A C T. Elizabeth Butler, marchioness of Ormonde, came to prominence during the middle years of the seventeenth centuryas a result of hercare of Protestant refugees in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion; her royalist exile in Caen; her successful claim to a portion of the confiscated Ormonde estate; and her subsequent retirement to Dun...
