Person:Elizabeth Butler (95)

Disputed Lineages

Elizabeth, the wife of Piers Dutton, is placed with these parents as the dates seem to fit. Beamont, Ormerod, and Baines have Piers's wife as the daughter of John's father, William le Boteler. The dates seem difficult for this, as then she would seem to have a brother, John, born in 1328, a husband, Piers, born in 1369, and a son, John, born in 1403. Baines has the Elizabeth who is the daughter of John and Alice as being married to Richard le Boteler of Kirkland, but the History of Parliament has Richard's wife as coming from a different le Boteler family.

1.   Baines, Edward, and James Croston. The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (revised). (Manchester, England: John Heywood, 1888-1893)
   4:401.

   Baines has her marrying Richard le Boteler of Kirkland, but the History of Parliament has that Elizabeth as from a different family.

2.   Beamont, William. Annals of the Lords of Warrington for the first five centuries after the conquest: with historical notices of the place and neighbourhood. (Bishops Stortford, England: Chadwyck-Healey, 1974)
   Volume 1 page 198.

   Beamont makes Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William le Boteler (9th Baron) and dame Elizabeth.
   
   He also, on page 225, has Elizabeth, the daughter of John Boteler and Alice Plumpton as the wife of Richard Boteler of Kirkland, but this is contradicted by the History of Parliament.

3.   Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
   1:648-649.

   Ormerod also makes Elizabeth the daughter of Sir William Butler.

4.   BOTELER, Nicholas (c.1384-c.1455), of Rawcliffe, Lancs., in The History of Parliament.