deaths
October 18, 1382
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond, Irish politician, Lord Justice of Ireland (born 1331)
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond
James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376, and a dominant political leader in Ireland in the 1360s and 1370s.
Lords Justices of Ireland
The Lords Justices were deputies who acted collectively in the absence of the chief governor of Ireland as head of the executive branch of the Dublin Castle administration. Lords Justices were sworn in at a meeting of the Privy Council of Ireland.