Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond
Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Countess of Desmond( ca. 1509 or ca.
1514 – 2 January 1565) was an Irish noblewoman and heiress, a member of the Norman Fitzgerald family, who were also known as the" Geraldines".
She married three times.
Her first husband was James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond, who had been proposed as a bridegroom for Anne Boleyn in 1522 to settle a dispute over the title and estates of the Earldom of Ormond.
Her second husband was courtier Sir Francis Bryan.
Her third marriage to Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond brought peace to Ireland for a few years until he broke his truce with her eldest son Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond and warfare broke out between the rival Butler and Fitzgerald clans, who had been hereditary enemies for many generations.
Joan carried on an amicable correspondence with Queen Elizabeth I of England who recognised Joan's skill in diplomacy, and relied upon her to restore and keep the precarious peace in Munster.
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond
Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde, 3rd Earl of Ossory, Viscount Thurles (c. 153122 November 1614), was an Irish peer and the son of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and Lady Joan Fitzgerald daughter and heiress-general of James FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Desmond.
He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland and a very prominent personage during the latter part of the 16th century.
Piers FitzThomas Butler
Piers FitzThomas Butler of Duiske( died 1601), was the illegitimate son of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond.
The lands of Duiske Abbey had reverted to his father.
In 1597, the earl executed a deed of conveyance in his favour for the lands( when Piers had reached maturity).
Lady Margaret Butler
Lady Margaret Butler, Lady Boleyn( c. 1454 – 1539) was an Irish noblewoman, the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.
She married Sir William Boleyn and through her eldest son Sir Thomas Boleyn, was the paternal grandmother of Anne Boleyn, second wife of King Henry VIII of England, and great- grandmother of Anne and Henry's daughter, Elizabeth I of England.
Alice Clere
Alice Clere( died 1538) was the daughter of Sir William Boleyn and his wife Margaret Ormond( otherwise Butler), the daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond.
Alice was thus the sister of Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, and the aunt of King Henry VIII's second Queen, Anne Boleyn.
Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet( died 1642) was an Irish nobleman, the illegitimate son of Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan and grandson of James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond.
He was High Sheriff of Carlow for 1612 and 1622.
He was created a baronet of Cloughgrenan( a townland near Carlow town) in 1628 by King Charles I.
His father had three other legitimate sons; Pierce, James and Theobald.
The two elder sons( Sir Thomas's half brothers) were executed by their own uncle Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond at Thurles during their rebellion in 1596.
The third son, Theobald, was created Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim.
This title died with the first bearer.
The Cloughgrenan line survives to the present day through the illegitimate line of the baronets.
John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury
John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, 10th Earl of Waterford( 1601 – 8 February 1654), was an English nobleman.
Anne Hankford
Anne Hankford( c. 1431 – 13 November 1485) was the first wife of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond( c. 1426- 3 August 1515).
She was the great- grandmother of Anne Boleyn
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond
James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory (149628 October 1546), known as The Lame, was the son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and Margaret Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond.
He was created, in 1535, Viscount Thurles, and was confirmed by Act of Parliament, 6 November 1541, in the Earldom of Ormond, as 9th Earl with the pre-eminence of the original earls.
His death by poisoning in London has remained an unsolved mystery to this day.
Elizabeth Darcy, Countess of Ormond
Elizabeth Butler ("nee" Darcy), Countess of Ormond (3 April 1332 – 24 March 1390) was the wife of Irish peer James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, and the mother of his six children, including James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond.

Question: Who is the paternal grandmother of Thomas Butler, 10Th Earl Of Ormond?
Answer: Margaret FitzGerald, Countess of Ormond