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Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall (née Butler; c. 1585 – 1628) was the only daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, called Black Tom, a lone Protestant in his Catholic Old English family.
Elizabeth, Countess of Desmond was buried in St Paul's chapel in Westminster Abbey on 17th March 1629 but she has no marker. She was the only surviving child of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and 3rd Earl of Ossory by his second wife Elizabeth (daughter of John 2nd Lord Sheffield).
Jul 5, 2021 · Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall (née Butler; c. 1585 – 1628) was the only daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, called Black Tom, lone Protestant in his Catholic Old English family.
Elizabeth Butler, Duchess of Ormond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall (née Preston; 1615–1684) reunited the Ormond estate as her maternal grandfather, Black Tom, 10th Earl of Ormond had it, by marrying James Butler, later Duke of Ormond, her second cousin once removed.
Elizabeth Preston, Countess of Desmond and 2nd Baroness Dingwall (née Butler; c. 1585 – 1628) was the only daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, called Black Tom, a lone Protestant in his Catholic Old English family.
Jun 27, 2024 · TWICE threescore years and ten—the allotted space of human life—passed over the head of the Lady Katherine. popularly known as the “Old Countess of Desmond,” before she yielded up her indomitable spirit.
When Elizabeth Preston 2nd Baroness was born on 25 July 1615, in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, her father, Richard Preston 1st Earl of Desmond, was 58 and her mother, Elizabeth Butler, was 31. She married Thomas Parsons in December 1629, in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom.
