• Sir Richard Butler (1395–1443) of Polestown, County Kilkenny, was the second son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, and Anne Welles. His older brother...
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    Richard Butler of Polestown (1395–1443) Walter Butler of Polestown (died 1483) Sir Richard Butler (Poletown) (died 1619) Edmond Butler of Polestown (died...
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    the Polestown cadet branch of the Butler dynasty that had started with Sir Richard Butler of Polestown, second son of James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond...
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  • Sir James Butler of Polestown (died 1487) was a warlord in Yorkist Ireland. James was the eldest son of Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler, whom he succeeded...
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  • MacRichard Butler, the eldest son of Sir Richard. Walter Butler of Polestown, second son of Edmund MacRichard. Edmond Butler of Polestown, the son of Walter...
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  • Ormond Sir Richard Butler of Polestown, the second son of the 3rd Earl. Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler, the eldest son of Sir Richard. Sir James Butler, eldest...
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  • Theobald Butler was the illegitimate son of Sir James Butler of Polestown and his wife Sabh Kavanagh. He was the elder brother of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond...
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  • Walter Butler of Polestown was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1483. He was the second son of Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler. His nephew Piers...
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  • MacRichard Butler, the eldest son of Sir Richard. Walter Butler of Polestown, second son of Edmund MacRichard. Edmond Butler of Polestown, son of Walter....
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  • widow of Jenico Grey, and daughter and heiress of Gerald FitzGerald, 5th Earl of Kildare, but had no children. Sir Richard Butler of Polestown, county...
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  • Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler of Polestown (1420 – June 13, 1464) was the eldest son of Sir Richard Butler of Polestown and adopted the Gaelic title of...
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  • Sir Walter Butler, 1st Baronet (died 1650) was an Irish nobleman. He was created a baronet, of Polestown, in the Baronetage of Ireland on 8 July 1645....
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  • branch of the family is in turn descended from the "Polestown" cadet branch. James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond Sir Richard Butler of Polestown, the second...
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  • Cork. The Butler Baronetcy, of Polestown in the County of Kilkenny, was created in the Baronetage of Ireland on 8 July 1645 for Walter Butler. He was a...
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  • his half first cousin Eleanor Butler, daughter of Theobald Butler of Polestown, the illegitimate brother of the 8th Earl of Ormond. He was created 1st Viscount...
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    Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond, 1st Earl of Ossory (1467–1539), the grandson of his first cousin Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler (1420–1464) of Polestown, County...
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  • daughters, of whom Edmund Butler, 4th Viscount Mountgarret Margaret married another member of the Butler line, Sir Walter Butler, 1st Baronet Polestown. The...
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    Theobald, Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim, who d.s.p. [died childless] Jan. 1613; and 2ndly Sir Richard Preston, created a peer of Scotland, 8 June 1609...
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    James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory (c. 1496 – 1546), known as the Lame (Irish: Bacach), was in 1541 confirmed as Earl of Ormond thereby...
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    son of Sir James Butler of Polestown (modern day Paulstown) and Sabh Kavanagh. The marriage was political; arranged with the purpose of ending the long-standing...
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    Clogrennane Castle (category Ruins in the Republic of Ireland)
    paternal grandparents of the 9th Earl of Ormond were Sir James Butler of Polestown and Princess Sabh Kavanagh, a daughter of the King of Leinster, Donal Reagh...
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  • of Donoyle. Power married Catherine, second daughter of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond. Richard and Catherine had three sons: Piers (1522–1544), who...
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    Captain Richard Esmond, brother of Sir Laurence Esmond, Baronet, and secondly, Richard Butler of Westcourt Margaret, who married George Matthew of Thurles...
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    Butler, daughter of James Butler of Polestown, and sister of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde, and thirdly a close relative (possibly a daughter) of...
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  • Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown and Edmund Butler of Polestown 1639–1649 Pierce Butler (expelled) and Walter Walsh 1661–1666 Sir John Ponsonby and Colonel...
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    leaving a dau. [daughter] and h. [heir] who m. [married] to H. Butler of Polestown." Burke 1866, p. 205, left column, line 49. Moody, Martin & Byrne...
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    Buidhe Ó Cléirigh served as the two principal scribes for Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler of Polestown. They transcribed texts and added sections to a manuscript...
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