Person:Elizabeth Poyntz (19)
Elizabeth Poyntz
b.1587
d.May 1673
Parents and Siblings
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  1. Dorothy Poyntz1583 -
  2. Elizabeth Poyntz1587 - 1673
  3. Frances Poyntz1586/87 -
  4. Sir Robert Poyntz, Knight1588 - 1665
  5. Charles Poyntz1589 -
  6. Hugh Poyntz1590 -
  7. Nicholas Poyntz1591 -
  8. John Poyntz1595 - 1595
Spouse and Children
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  1. Eleanor Butler
  2. Mary Butler1605 - 1680
  3. James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde1610 - 1688
  4. Colonel Hon. Richard Butler, of Kilcash1615 - 1701
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  George Mathews (add)
  • W.  Elizabeth Poyntz1587 - 1673
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Facts and Events
Name Elizabeth Poyntz
Gender Female
Birth[1] 1587
Alt Birth? 1593 Iron Acton, Gloucester, England
Marriage to Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles
Marriage to George Mathews (add)
Death[1] May 1673
Reference Number? Q5362224?


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Elizabeth Poyntz (1587May 1673), daughter of Sir John Pointz (died 1633) of Iron Acton in Gloucestershire and his second wife Elizabeth Sydenham, became Lady Thurles in 1608 when she married Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, son of Walter, 11th Earl of Ormond. Apparently, the marriage was against her father-in-law's wishes. This may have been less on her account than her father's: Sir John Pointz was notoriously improvident in matters of finance, and died penniless.

Some sources say that she lived in Thurles Castle from this marriage until her death (1608–1673), except for a short period (1658–1660) during the rule of Cromwell—she was a Catholic Royalist. It is not clear, however, that she could have returned to Thurles Castle because Lewis writes that "this castle, during the parliamentary war, was garrisoned for the King, but was afterwards taken by the parliamentarian forces, by whom it was demolished". On the other hand, Lady Thurles may have returned to a newer building on or close to the site of the castle which may also have been called Thurles Castle; Grose, writing in 1791, and Armitage, writing in 1912, seem to imply that a building called Thurles Castle still existed in their times.

She and Lord Thurles had three sons and four daughters before he drowned on 15 December 1619, when the ship carrying him to England was wrecked off the Skerries near Anglesey. This was shortly after the start of his father's long imprisonment in the Fleet Prison in London[1] and Thomas had been on his way to answer charges of treason for having garrisoned Kilkenny.

After his death, Lady Thurles married again, about 1620. With her second husband, Captain George Mathew of Radyr and Llandaff in Glamorganshire, Wales, she had two more sons and one more daughter. Her second husband died in 1636 at Tenby in Wales. She lived a further 37 years, dying in Thurles in May 1673. She was buried beside what is now the Protestant church of St. Mary's in Thurles.

An oil portrait of Lady Thurles is held by Tipperary County Library in Thurles.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Elizabeth, Lady Thurles, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2.   Elizabeth Poyntz, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
  3.   Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. (Gloucester: John Bellows, 1876-)
    12:153.
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