III. 1871.
3. Francis Thomas de Grey (Cowper), Earl Cowper, &c., h. general to this barony as well as to the Barony of Dingwall [S.], became LORD BUTLER (of Moore Park) [1666], as also Lord Dingwall [S.], by the reversal, under Act of Parl., 31 July 1871, of the attainder (1715) affecting both those dignities. See full particulars under "Dingwall" Barony [S.], cr. 1609.
BUTLER OF TULLEOPHELIM
VISCOUNTCY. [I.]
I. 1603 to 1613.
I. Theobald Butler, 4th and yst. s. of Sir Edmund B., of Roscrea and Cloughgrenan, co. Carlow, (d. in Ireland, Nov. 1602) by Eleanor, da. of Rowland (Eustace), 2nd Viscount Baltinglass [I.] (which Edmund Butler was 2nd's. of James, 10th Earl of Ormond, &'c. [I.], and next br. to Thomas, the 11th Earl), was granted by patent, 13 July 1603 (being at that time h. male, though not h. gen. of his father), the reversion of the Earldoms of Ormond and of Ossory [I.] on the death of [his uncle] Thomas, the then Earl, s.p.m., with rem. to heirs male of his body, rem. to heirs male of the body of his great-grandfather, Piers Butler[1] He was long imprisoned in Dublin Castle, not being released till Nov. 1602. On 4 Aug. 1603 he was cr. VISCOUNT BUTLER OF TULLEOPHELIM, co. Carlow [I.]. He was Gov. and Lord Lieut, of co. Carlow, 16 June 1605. He m., Feb. 1602/3,[2] Elizabeth, only da. and h. of [his said uncle] Thomas (Butler), Earl of Ossory and Ormond, &c. [1.], by his 2nd wife, Elizabeth, da. of John (Sheffield), Baron Sheffield. He d. s.p. (in the lifetime of his said uncle and father-in-law to whose Peerage honours, to which he never succeeded, he was in remainder), Dec. 1613, and was bur. in St. Canice's church, when his honours became extinct.[3] His widow m. Richard (Preston), Lord Dingwall [S.],
- ↑ See Creations 1483-1646, in App. to 47th Rep. D.K. of Public Records, p. 97.
- ↑ Hist. MSS. Com., Hatfield MSS., part xii, p. 410, shows that he m. in or after 1602. V.G.
- ↑ (c) At his death his estates passed to a bastard brother, Thomas Butler. Gilbert, Lord Shrewsbury, writes of him in Dec. 1602, "He hath a very good wit, and staid judgment, and is of very good nature and well disposed." Of his wife, Lady Shrewsbury writes at the same date, "A sharp conceit and knavish wit of her own she hath, yet there is not in the world a better natured girl." V.G.
"Thomæ Butler" [only], such Barony doubtless it would have been; but the writ is " Thomæ Butler de Moore Park, and is held accordingly to have cr. a new Barony. The words "de Moore Park" (although they exist in the writ) are put by Dugdale (in his Summons, p. 567) within brackets. This course he apparently adopts to show that the Barony is styled "Butler" and not "Moore Park." Accordingly "de Truro" is there put within brackets after "Roberts," "de Cherbury" after "Herbert," &c., while, on the other hand, "Carey de Hunsdon," and "Roper de Tenham," are written without brackets, inasmuch as the style of these Baronies is "Hunsdon" and "Tenham," not "Carey" and "Roper."
