ORMOND
- BUTLER
- James I.......................................1328-1338
- James
II......................................1338-1382
- James III.....................................1382-1405
- James
IV......................................1405-1461
- John..........................................1461-1477
- Thomas
I......................................1477-1515
- Piers.........................................1515-1539
- James
V.......................................1539-1546
- Thomas II "Black Tom".........................1546-1614
- Walter........................................1614-1632
- James
VI (1st Duke of Ormond 1682-1688).......1632-1688
- James VII (2nd Duke
of Ormond 1688-1745)......1688-1745
- James VII was impeached in 1715 for
complicity in secret Tory negotiations with France during the War of the Spanish
Succession. He fled to Spain and was thereafter active in Jacobite interests.
The earldom was recovered by another branch of the family in 1758.