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Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim

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Theobald Butler
Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim
Tenure1603–1613
DiedJanuary 1613
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Butler
FatherSir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan
MotherEleanor Eustace

Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim (died December 1613), was an Irish peer.

Birth and origins

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Theobald was the son of Sir Edmund Butler by the Honourable Eleanor Eustace, daughter of Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass. James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormonde, was his grandfather, and Sir Thomas Butler, 1st Baronet, of Cloughgrenan, his younger brother. He was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim, in the County of Carlow. In 1605 he was appointed Governor of County Carlow.[1]

Family tree
Theobald Butler with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.[a]
Piers
8th Earl

1467–1539
Margaret
FitzGerald

c. 1473 – 1542
James
10th Earl

d. 1529
Amy
O'Brien
James
9th Earl

1496–1546
Joan
FitzGerald

d. 1565
Gerald
14th Earl

c. 1533 – 1583
Rebel Earl
Thomas
10th Earl
c. 1531 – 1614
Black Tom
Edmund
of
Cloughgrenan

1534–1602
Eleanor
Eustace
John of
Kilcash

d. 1570
Theobald
Viscount
Tulleophelim

d. 1613
Elizabeth
Butler

c. 1585 – 1628
Richard
Preston
1st Earl
Desmond

d. 1628
Walter
11th Earl

1559–1633
'Beads'
Thomas
Viscount
Thurles

d. 1619
d.v.p.*
Elizabeth
Preston

1615–1684
James
1st Duke

1610–1688
Richard
of
Kilcash

1615–1701
Legend
XXXTheobald
Butler
XXXEarls & dukes of
Ormond
XXXEarls of
Desmond
*d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris).

Viscount

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Butler was created Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim by letter patent on 4 August 1603.[3]

Marriage

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Lord Butler of Tulleophelim married his first cousin Elizabeth Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormond, in 1603. There were no children from the marriage. He died in December 1613, when the viscountcy became extinct. The dowager Viscountess Butler of Tulleophelim married as her second husband Richard Preston, 1st Earl of Desmond. She died in October 1628.

Death and Timeline

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Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim died in January 1613.[4]

Notes and references

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Notes

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  1. ^ This family tree is partly derived from the condensed Butler family tree pictured in Dunboyne.[2]

Notes

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  1. ^ thepeerage.com Theobald Butler, 1st and last Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim
  2. ^ Dunboyne 1968, pp. 16–17. "Butler Family Tree condensed"
  3. ^ Burke 1866, p. 96, left column, line 12. "By Letters Patent, date 4 August, 1603."
  4. ^ Burke 1866, p. 96, left column, line 22. "... d.s.p. in January 1613, when the viscounty became extinct."

References

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  • Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348.
  • Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. II (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Bass to Canning (for Butler of Tulleophelim)
  • Dunboyne, Patrick Theobald Tower Butler, Baron (1968). Butler Family History (2nd ed.). Kilkenny: Rothe House.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
Peerage of Ireland
New creation Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim
1603–1613
Extinct