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  Anne Welles
  Spouse: James (3rd Earl Of Ormond) Butler
  Birth 1371 Gainsby, Lincolnshire, England
  Parents: John (Sir) De Welles, Alianore De Mowbray
  Children: Richard (Sir) Butler
  
  A family sources provides death information and other family details,but does not cite the cource of the information.
  
  Anne Wells Welles, Birth 1359 in Welle, Lincolnshire, England, Death1396 in Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland;  Parents John (Sir) de Welles1324-1361, Maud DeRos 1328-1399;  Spouse James (3rd Earl of Ormond)Butler 1361 - 1405;  Son Sir Richard Butler 1386-1405
  --  CoVan Family,http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9679712/person/194172617?ssrc=&ftm=1
  
  A well-writen article in Wikipedia provides authoritative informationand family background on Anne.  Note that there is a one-yeardiscrepancy in the death year reproted in the Wikipedia article andint eh genealogy, as with the birth year also.  Recosntructions ofthis era vary even among formal and official sources.
  
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  Anne Welles was born in Gainsby, Lincolnshire, England in 1360, thedaughter of John de Welles, 4th Lord Welles (23 August 1334- 11October 1361) and Maud de Ros (died 9 December 1388). She had an elderbrother John de Welles, 5th Lord Welles (born 20 April 1352), whomarried Eleanor de Mowbray, by whom he had issue. She had a sisterMargery de Welles, who married firstly, John de Huntingfield, andsecondly, Lord Scrope of Masham.
  
  Her paternal grandparents were Sir Adam de Welles, 3rd Lord Welles andMargaret Bardolf, and her maternal grandparents were William de Ros,2nd Lord Ros and Margery Badlesmere eldest daughter of Bartholmew deBadlesmere, 1st Lord Badlesmere and Margaret de Clare.
  
  Anne Welles was the great-great-great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn.
  --  "Anne Butler, Countess of Ormond,"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Welles%2C_Countess_of_Ormonde
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  Note the birth year given as 1360, which is reported by some sourcesas 1359, as we saw in the genealogy above.  WIkipedia also reports herdeath and some additional helpful details.
  
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  Anne Welles died on 13 November 1397, around the age of 37.  On 26June 1397, Anne issued a lease to Sir John Drayton, of the manor ofAylesbury, Buckinghamshire, and rents and appurtences of the towns ofAylesbury and Burton.
  
  The Earl of Ormond married secondly, Katherine FitzGerald of Desmond,by whom he had four children. The Earl had an illegitimate son, ThomasLe Boteller Prior of Kilmainham by an unknown mistress.  He is oftenincorrectly listed as a child of Anne Welles."
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  The Wikipedia article helpfully proceeds to list and provide basicinformation about James' and Anne's chioldren.
  
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  James and Anne had five children:
  James Butler, 4th Earl of Ormond (1392- 22 August 1452), known as TheWhite Earl, married firstly, Joan de Beauchamp, by whom he had fivechildren, including James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, John Butler, 6thEarl of Ormond, and Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond. He marriedsecondly, Joan FitzGerald.
  Anne Butler, married John Wogan, by whom she had issue.
  Sir Richard Butler, of Poulstown, Kilkenny, married CatherineO'Reilly, daughter of Gildas O'Reilly, Lord of East Breffny, by whomhe had issue.
  Sir Philip Butler, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Cockayne,Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Ida de Grey, by whom he had issue.Elizabeth married secondly, Sir Laurence Cheney, by whom she had adaughter, Elizabeth Cheney, the maternal great-grandmother of AnneBoleyn.
  Sir Ralph Butler, married Margaret de Berwick, by whom he had issue.
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  Details are reported by this genealogy for Ann and James' son Richard.
  
  Richard Sir Butler, Birth 1386 in Knocktopher Castle, Wicklow,Ireland, Death 1405 in Kilkenny, Ireland;  Parents James (3rd Earl ofOrmond) Butler 1361-1405, Anne Wells Welles 1359-1396;  SpouseCatherine O'Reilly 1376-1414
  --  CoVan Family,http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/9679712/person/193464692

Sources

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• 2. Wikipedia
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• 3. Ancestry Trees
  • CoVan Family,
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