5.6 DUNBARTON living at Douai, in Flanders, 7 Jan. 1748/9, but d. probably soon after,(") aged about 62, s.p., when his honours appear to have become extinct. DUNBLANE See " Osborne OF Dunblane," Viscountcy (Oji{'or«^),fr. 2 Feb. 1672/3. DUNBOYNE BARONY [I.] I. Edmund (Butler), s. and h. of James B.,^) of I Dunboyne,(') co. Meath (d. 15 Jan. 1538), by Joan, da. of •^■^ ■ Piers (Butler), Earl of Ossory and Ormond [I.]; he was a ward of the King after his father's death, and had livery of his father's lands 10 July 1545; he was knighted before 1541. He was cr., 11 June 1541, BARON OF DUNBOYNE, co. Meath [I.]. As " Edward {sic] Butler, Lord of Dunboyne of Kyltenan in the county of Tipperary," he had pardon, 1 7 Feb. i 549/50, and again, under the same designation, with the addition of " knight," 13 and 20 May 1551. He m., before 1551, Cecilia, or Gille, da. of Cormac Oge Macarty, of Muskerry. As " Egidie McCarhe, daughter of Cormac Oge, and wife of Edward [sic] Butler, Baron of Dunboyne," she had a grant of English liberty, 27 July 1 55 !.() She was living as his widow, June 1567. He d. in prison, in 1567, between 12 and 31 May. She m., in 1568, as 3rd wife, Richard (Bourke), 2nd Earl of Clanricarde (his ist wife being still alive), who, within 3 or 4 years, put her away. She was living about 1580. The Earl d. 24 July 1582. (*) Eraser's Book of Carlaverock, vol. ii, p. 372. In the Hist. Reg. he is errone- ously stated to have d. at Douai, Jan. 1737/8. V.G. C") He was s. of another James, feudal Baron of Dunboyne, by Elinor Taafe or by Catherine McCarthy, both of whom his father married [Cal. of Patent and Close Rolls [I.], vol. i, pp. 9, 10), though he is usually credited with one wife, Elinor McCarthy, to whom Peerage writers have given the christian name of one and the surname of the other. V.G. if) The Lordship of Dunboyne, anciently held by the family of Le Petit, was acquired in marriage with the heiress thereof by Sir Thomas Butler, who was slain 1329. His descendants, feudal Barons thereof, were frequently sum. to the Irish Pari., the 9th in descent from him being Edmund, who was cr. a Lord of Pari. [L] in 1 541 as above stated. "William Butler, Baron of Dunboyne, was attainted, and the Crown, in 1460, granted the Barony to Rowland FitzEustace, Wc. Edmond Butler, however, the next heir male in remainder after the forfeiture, obtained the Barony ot Dunboyne from the King, and a statute was passed in 1472 for repealing all laws against him. In all the royal instruments he is called Lord and Baron of Dunboyne, yet his grandson, Sir Edmund Butler, sued out and obtained a patent from Hen. VIII regranting and confirming this Barony to him and his heirs male for ever." [Lynch, p. 185). For the ranking of Irish peers at various dates see vol. i, Appendix A. (d) Cal. of Patent and Close Rolls [I.], vol. i, p. 238. V.G.
