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| A select few families in Ireland wielded a huge amount of power and it is understandable that others dreamt of being part of their network. One of the most eminent families in Ireland was the [[wp>Butler_dynasty|Butlers]]. They prospered in their role as English overlords and built an impressive number of castles that are tourist attractions today. //Photo: Kilkenny Castle (one of the Butler residences)//. | A select few families in Ireland wielded a huge amount of power and it is understandable that others dreamt of being part of their network. One of the most eminent families in Ireland was the [[wp>Butler_dynasty|Butlers]]. They prospered in their role as English overlords and built an impressive number of castles that are tourist attractions today. //Photo: Kilkenny Castle (one of the Butler residences)//. |
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| Some past Murray-Priors saw the Butlers as an important focus when compiling family trees, starting with England’s [[wp>Edward_I_of_England|Edward I]] (reigned 1272-1307)(([[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOHUN.htm#Eleonor%20De%20BOHUN%20(D.%20Gloucester]])) through to Eleanor (Alianore) de Bohun (c.1302-63). Note that Edward I had 17 or 18 (legitimate) children so his descendants are numerous! Alianore married James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, 2nd Earl of Carrick and Lord Palatine(([[wp>County_Palatine_of_Tipperary_Act_1715|Lord Palatine]] meant control over justice and money that would have otherwise gone to the king.)) of Tipperary, Ireland. By jumping from sons and daughters as required, you can get from Eleanor/Alianore to Frances Butler, elder daughter of the Hon. Colonel Piers Butler, who married Hervey Morres: their great-granddaughter married Andrew Murray-Prior. Not a close connection! | Some past Murray-Priors saw the Butlers as an important focus when compiling family trees, starting with England’s [[wp>Edward_I_of_England|Edward I]] (reigned 1272-1307)(([[http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOHUN.htm#Eleonor%20De%20BOHUN%20(D.%20Gloucester]])) through to Eleanor (Alianore) de Bohun (c.1302-63). Note that Edward I had 17 or 18 (legitimate) children so his descendants are numerous! Alianore married James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, 2nd Earl of Carrick and Lord Palatine(([[wp>County_Palatine_of_Tipperary_Act_1715|Lord Palatine]] meant control over justice and money that would have otherwise gone to the king.)) of Tipperary, Ireland. By jumping from sons and daughters as required, you can get from Eleanor/Alianore to [[the_morres_family|Frances Butler]], elder daughter of the Hon. Colonel Piers Butler, who married Hervey Morres: their great-granddaughter married Andrew Murray-Prior. Not a close connection! |
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| Another Butler ‘air castle’, with some half-truths, helps account for a story involving an illegitimate Butler baby. At a time when no-one could conclusively prove their parentage, when abstinence was the only effective contraception, and it was common for wealthy men to have illegitimate children, it was easy to believe that parentage was not always what it seemed.((Note that concerns about 'lost' children were a source of comic/dramatic inspiration for Gilbert & Sullivan, Oscar Wilde etc.)) Usually these beliefs coalesced around a powerful, and hitherto unacknowledged, father. One example is Sir John Conway, an equerry to (later Queen) Victoria’s father and dominating influence during Victoria's childhood. Victoria banished him from the court when she ascended the throne. One explanation for Conroy's bullying of Victoria is that he believed (against all evidence) that his wife was Victoria's half-sister, an illegitimate child of her father. The eminent historian A.N. Wilson comments that it is unknown if Sir John’s wife shared – or even knew about – her husband’s belief in her royal parentage.((A.N. Wilson, //Victoria. A Life//, London: Atlantic Books, 2014, pp.34-35)) | Another Butler ‘air castle’, with some half-truths, helps account for a story involving an illegitimate Butler baby. At a time when no-one could conclusively prove their parentage, when abstinence was the only effective contraception, and it was common for wealthy men to have illegitimate children, it was easy to believe that parentage was not always what it seemed.((Note that concerns about 'lost' children were a source of comic/dramatic inspiration for Gilbert & Sullivan, Oscar Wilde etc.)) Usually these beliefs coalesced around a powerful, and hitherto unacknowledged, father. One example is Sir John Conway, an equerry to (later Queen) Victoria’s father and dominating influence during Victoria's childhood. Victoria banished him from the court when she ascended the throne. One explanation for Conroy's bullying of Victoria is that he believed (against all evidence) that his wife was Victoria's half-sister, an illegitimate child of her father. The eminent historian A.N. Wilson comments that it is unknown if Sir John’s wife shared – or even knew about – her husband’s belief in her royal parentage.((A.N. Wilson, //Victoria. A Life//, London: Atlantic Books, 2014, pp.34-35)) |