BUTLEB. 95 II. 120(>. 2. THEOBALD Butler, or Le Botiller, s. and h, aged 0 years in 1200. Had livery uf his estates 18 July 1222. In 1222 11 be was sum. with the inure potent Barons to attend the King in London with men, anus, and horses.' V) Was Loud Justice [L] 1247. He appeal's to have til. twice, riz firstly Joane, sister and coheir «{ John »b Mawsi'o.C') and secondly (shortly after 1225, when the King requests such marriage) liohesia, only da. anil h. M Xieholas dk VKaDON, of co. Stafford, which Lady was heiress of Croxden, &c, and Fouu<lress of Grace Dieu Monastery, co. Leic.(*j He d. 1218, nud was bur. in the Abbey of Arklow. III. 1218. o. Theobald Butler, or Le Botiller, heir of the last Baroil and aged 6 in 12-1 S was, in all probability his grandson, viz. a. anrl li. of the 1st a. and h. ap. of the said Baton, by his Bret wife Joan.(°J He adhered to Hen. Ill in the wars with the Barons. He m. Margery, 1st da. of Richard DE Bl'Bclli ancestor of the Karls of Claurieurde [1.] He was fcur. nt Arklow. IV. 12(>"> 1 4- Theobald Butler, or Le Botiller, s. and h. He took part with Ed. I in the war with Scotland He m. Joan da. of John Fitz-Joiin", 4th and youngest sister and coheir of Richard, LoitD Frrz Jim.v, 1295-37. He d. 2'jth Sep. 1285 in tin Castle of Arklow and was fair, in the monastery there. His widow if. 1303. V. 1285. 5. Theobald Butler, or Le Botillbr, s. and h. ; who, under that name and without any territorial designation, stood 5th on the Roll of the Purl. [I.] of 1295. He accompanied the King in 129u' to Scotland. He d. limn, at his manor of Turvey, 14 May 1290 and was bur. 27th in Wotheny Abbey nfed VI. 1290. 6. Edmund Butler, or Le Botiller, br. and h., who, under that name anil without any territorial designation, sat in the Pari, [1.] of 1302. He was Knighted in London by Ed. II in 1309. From 1312 to 1313 and again 1315 to 1317 he was, under the style of Loud Keepkh, Chief Governor uf Ireland, and was active in dispersing the rebellion. At a foist in Dublin 20 Sep. 1313 he a: no less than 30 Knights. For his services against Edward Bruce and the Scots as also against the rebel Irish, he on 1 Sep. IH9 received the feodum uf " the Caitle and manors of Karryk Macgrili'yn and Roserea " with the habendum as follows. "Quod pnedictus Edmundna habeat et teneat pr.edicta castra et maneria, cumperti- nentiis, sibi et luTOrodibus suis .... tub nomine et honore Comitis de Karrgk." This charter however (notwithstanding that the "feodum" continued in the family) appears to hxve failed( d ) in creating its recipient KARL OF CARRICK [I.J and we W See " Lynch " p. 81. ( h ) The first match only is mentioned in " Lodge " (vol. iv, p. 5) the Second w.teA only in " Lynch " (p. 81) where it is stated that her children of whom was John de Verdun, Theobald de Verdun senior, and Theobald de Verdon junior, retained [lie.] their maternal surname." Maud, a da., in. John Fit'/. Alan (Earl of Arundel ?) feudal Lord of Clun and Oswaldestre, who d. 12US. See ante vol. i, p. 144. ( c ) See " Lodge," vol. iv, p. 5, where it is mentioned that the Butler family sue. to considerable estates in England and Ireland on the death of Sir Stephen de Marisco (1390-91) 14 llic. 2 in right of Joan Butler, great aunt of the said Stephen. In a very able article on * the Earldoms of Oruioud " [t.]by " J. H. Round, Esq., M.A." (Foster's " Coll. Gen.," pp. S4-93), from which the account in the text (above) of the charter of 1 Sep. 1315 is compiled, it is suggested that tho' the charter erected certain lands into an Earldom, it was " without, ipso facto, conferring the actual dignity ; the latter beiug effectively cr. by subsequent cincture or belting " ; ami this view is supported by the later charters of 1319, 132S, and 1329 (whereby the Earldoms of Louth, oi Ormonde, and of Desmond [I.] were respectively cr.) and in which is recited " the creation of the Earl, as something over and above the creation of the Earldom." iif. in 1328, "ipsunupie Camilcoi de Ormoiiiid prefeeimus et ghulio cinxerinius." If it should be urged that in these three cases the " feodum ' ' was non-territorial, compare
