James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish politician and soldier
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Place of Birth: Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
About James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde
- James FitzJames Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, (29 April 1665 – 16 November 1745) was an Irish statesman and soldier.
- He was the third of the Kilcash branch of the family to inherit the earldom of Ormond.
- Like his grandfather the 1st Duke, he was raised as a Protestant, unlike his extended family who held to Roman Catholicism.
- He served in the campaign to put down the Monmouth Rebellion, in the Williamite War in Ireland, in the Nine Years' War and in the War of the Spanish Succession but was accused of treason and went into exile after the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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