Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim

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

Theobald Butler
Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim
Reign	1603–1613
Died	January 1613
Family	Butler dynasty
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Butler
Father	Sir Edmund Butler of Cloughgrenan
Mother	Eleanor Eustace

Birth and origins

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. 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 15th 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 XXX Theobald Butler XXX Earls & dukes of Ormond XXX Earls of Desmond *d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris). This family tree is partly derived from the condensed Butler family tree pictured in Dunboyne.[2] Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.

Viscount

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

Marriage

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

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

Notes

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

• Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 2 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. – Bass to Canning (for Butler of Tulleophelim)
• Dunboyne, Patrick Theobald Tower Butler, Baron (1968). Butler Family History (2nd ed.). Kilkenny: Rothe House.