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Anne Butler Countess of Ormond (née Welles; 1360 – 13 November 1397) was the first wife of Irish noble James Butler 3rd Earl of Ormond and the mother of James Butler 4th Earl of Ormond. She was the first countess of Ormond to live at Kilkenny Castle Ireland.According to Frederick Tupper Professor of English at the University of Vermont she was commemorated as Anelida Queen of Armenia in Geoffrey Chaucer’s poem Anelida and Arcite.[citation needed]
