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 94 BUTLEIGH — BUTLER. BUTLEIGH. Sec "Glastonbury of Btitleigh, co. Somerset," (GrmviUe) Barony, en mi ; ex. 1825. BUTLEK (see also under " Botelek.") Note — Three distinct families of this name were ennobled, of which two [E.] are here treated of under " Bolder " (see vol. i, p. 3S1), hut the third, viz. the illus- trious race early settled in Ireland, is given under " Butler," being the form of spelling most generally adopted by that line. Barony [I.] 1. Theobald Walter or Fitz Waltek, s. and b. of Hervey Walteh, of Amounderness, co. Lane, and West Dereham, I. 1192? Norfolk (owner of large estates in Norfolk and Suffolk) by Maud,(») da. and coheir of Theobald dk Vai.oinks, accompanied in 1185 John, Count of Mortaigue, Lord of Ireland (afterward King John), into Ireland who conferred on him vast estates in that Kingdom, including (before 11S9) the fief of Arklow, &c, and (in or before 1102) the important office of BUTLKR [I. la dignity( b ) which, of itself, probably comprised (even if it did not more than comprise) Baronial rank and position for himself and his successors.( c ) He is said (in Carte's " Ormonde ") to have subsequently obtained the valuable monopoly of the prisage( d ) of wines [I.] Returning to England, be obtained from Richard I, in 1104, the Lordship of Preston, co. Lane, and a regrant of the Wapentake of Anmndernesse. He was Sheriff for Lancashire, 1193-1200 ; and was Founder of the Abbey of Cocker- sand in that co. In 1107 he was one of the Justices Itinerant. In 1203 he pail a fine to proceed to Ireland, where he founded the Abbey of Nenagh, co. Tipperary (1200) ; the Abbey of Wotheny, co. Limerick (1205), and the monastery of Arklow,( c ) co. Wicklow. He m. Maud, da. and h. of Robert Lii Vavasouu, with whom lie acquired the manors of Edlington, Newborough, &c, co. York. He d. 120G, and was bur. at Wotheny Abbey.(') His widow m., in 1207, Fulko r'lTzw.vrtiNE. (*) Her sister, Bertha, was wife of Ranulph de Glanville, the great Justiciary. This circumstance greatly contributed to the advancement of the Butler family. A yr. br. of this Theobald, one Hubert Walter, was Archbishop of Canterbury (1103) and Chan- cellor (1199; till his death in 1205. ( b ) " We can form some idea of the estimation in which this high dignity was held from the circumstance of King Henry II. having attended [in 1170J on his son [Henry] as Chief Butler at that Prince's coronation." See "Lynch," p. 79. ( c ) Under the name of Butler, or Le Botiller, these Barons appear (without any territorial designation) in every roll of Pari, to which they were sum., the office giving henceforth the surname to the family, under which, accordingly, this Barony is here treated ; for it ran hardly be doubted but that, inasmuch as several of the Anglo-Irish race enjoyed Irish Baronies, in the sense of Peerage dignities, in the 12th and 13th century, this family, being one of the most hading houses (inferior to none save, possibly, the Geraldines) was held to possess such a Barony long before its ehvation to an Earldom, which was not till the 14th century. ( d ) This right was by Act of Pari. 1811, purchased from the then Marquess of Ormonde [I.], for £216,000. (a) The Castle and town of Arklow had been granted to him by John, Count of Mortaigue (afterwards lung John) to hold " by the service of one Knight's fee." See " Lodge," vol. iv, p. 4. This grant was made at some date before 1189, and was afterwards confirmed to him by William Marshal, who, jure uxoris, was Lord of Leinster. " It is in virtue of this fief that Lynch and others have attempted to claim a feudal Barony [of Arklow] for Theobald and his descendants." See Mr. J. Horace Round's article on "Theobald Butler" in Stephen's "Nat. Biography." See also as to the claim of the Butler family to the Barony of Arklow [I.], vol. i, of this work, p. 129. ( f ) His estates were " Upper Ormond, lower Ormond, Elyogarty, Ikerin, Owney, Kilnamanagh, Kiinalongurty, Ileagh, Dow. Arra, &c." See "Lynch," p. 80, where also it is mentioned that on his seal (in the court of the Duchy of Lancaster) are the words " Sigillum Thcobaldi Wultcri."