JAMES, 1st Earl of Ormonde, and 7th Butler, m. 1327, Lady Eleanor de Bohun (who m. 2ndly, 1343, Thomas, Lord Dagworth, who was k. in Brittany 1359), 2nd dau. of Humphrey, Earl of Hereford and Essex, High Constable of England, by the Princess ELIZABETH PLANTAGENET, his wife, dau. of EDWARD I,

James, second earl of Carrick, was given a new title. In the second year of the reign of Edward III, 1328, James Butler son of Edmund Butler married Eleanor de Bohun, a granddaughter of Edward I; she was the eldest daughter of the Earl of Hereford and of Elizabeth, the 7th daughter of Edward I. He was created Earl of Ormond by the king in a Parliament which was held at Northampton on Nov 2, 1328. The king also erected the County Tipperary into a palatinate in his favour, granting him the royal rights, franchises, military fiefs, and other privileges in that county.116

Eleanor married a second time, Maurice FitzThomas, Earl of Kildare.116