466 CAHER III. 1583. I. Theobald Butler, cousin and h. male, being s. and h. of Piers B., (living Feb. ^6']li) next br. to the ist Lord, by ( — ), da. of — (Butler), Baron Dunboyne [I.], sue. to the estates of the family. Knighted 14 Feb. 1566/7 at Clonmel. Having rendered signal services to the Queeii's Government, he was, after the surrender of all rights (confirmed 14 July 1585) on the part of the htws general, cr. 6 May i583,(=') BARON OF CAHER [I.] to him and the heirs male of his body, and on the 9th inst. (being Ascension Day) the solemnity of his creation was performed in Christ Church. C") He m. Mary, da. of Sir Thomas Cusack, of LismuUen, co. Meath, Lord Chancellor [I.], by his 2nd wife, Maud, da. of George Darcy, of Plattyn, co. Meath. He d. 28 Apr. 1596, at Caher. Will dat. 27 Nov. 1593, desiring to be l>ur. at Clonmel.('=) His widow was living 1601. IV. 1596. 2. Thomas (Butler), Baron Caher [I.], s. and h., aged 28 years at the death of his father. He joined in Tyrone's rebellion, but surrendered in 1599. Caher Castle, accounted the strongest place in Ireland, was carried by storm on Whitsunday 1599, by the Earl of Essex, Lord Caher being then a prisoner, but his wife and brothers refusing to give it up. He was attainted, but on 27 May 1601, hzd pardon for all treasons and crimes. He m., istly, before Oct. 1598, Eleanor, widow of Gerald Blancheville, of Blanchevillestown, co. Kilkenny, and before that of Thomas Tobin, of Cumpshinagh, co. Tipperary, ist da. of Richard (Butler), ist Viscount Mountgarret [I.], by his ist wife, Eleanor, da. of Theobald Butler, of Neigham, co. Kilkenny. She was living 1 60 1. He m., 2ndly, Ellice, da. of Sir John Fitzgerald, of Dromana, co. Waterford. He d. s.p.m.,(f) 31 Jan. 1626/7.0 ^^^ Ellenor Butler, one of the daughters of " Sir Thomas Butler, Knt., late Baron of the Cahir, deed.," and (2) Thomas Prendergast, s. and h. of Thomas P., of Newcastle, by Johan Butler, another of the said daughters. The Queen wrote to the Lords Justices [I.] "to travel earnestly" with these ladies to surrender the dignity. This was done accordingly by deed, dat. at Cahir, 14 July 1585, in which they surrendered to "our well beloved cosen Sir Theobald Butler of the Cahir, Knt., the name, dignitie, estate, lordship, degree, creacion, prehemynences and pryvileges of Lord Baron of the Cahir descended and come to us from the said Sir Thomas Butler [their father] as his heyres; and the lettres patents whearby the said Sir Thomas Butler was made and created Lord Baron of Cahir, ^c." See (Fleming's) Authorities, &c., in the Berkeley claim, 1 862, p. 75. See also Lynch, p. 215. (^) On 26 Oct. 1569, the Lord Deputy Sydney recommended to the Privy Coun- cil that he should be cr. Baron Caher. V.G. C") See preamble to patent in Lodge, vi, 215. (<=) In Vicars' Irish Wills the will of "Sir Theo. Butler Baron of Cahir," is stated to have been pr. Prerog. Court [I.] 1593 [s/V], proved being doubtless an error for dated. V.G. ("*) Margaret, his only da. and h., aged 21 in 1627, who was the 1st wife of Ed- mund (Butler), Baron Dunboyne [I.], d. in Dublin 1632, leaving issue, of whom Eleanor m. Edmund Butler, and was mother of Piers, 4th Baron Caher [I.]. (') He is described as "simple and foolish." V.G.
