Edmund le Botiller , 6th Butler, Ear of Carrick 
Edmund le was born about 1271 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland. Edmund le's father was Theobald le Botiller , 4th Butler and his mother was Joan FitzJohn. His paternal grandparents were Theobald le Botiller , 3rd Butler and Margery de Burgh; his maternal grandparents were John FitzGeoffrey , Justiciar of Ireland, Sir and Isabella Bigod. He was an only child. He died on September 13th, 1321 in London, Middlesex, England. He was buried on November 9th, 1321 in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland.General Notes
Edmund Butler le Botiller; granted 1 Sep 1315 a fief consisting of the castle and manors of Karryk Macgriffyn and Roscrea, whereby he has been by some sources referred to as Earl of Carrick, though the weight of evidence militates against this. [Burke's Peerage]
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Edmund Butler, d. London, 13 Sep 1321, son of Theobald le Boteler and Joan Fitz John, daughter of Sir John Fitz Geoffrey and Isabel Bigod. [Magna Charta Sureties]
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The 5th Butler [Theobald] stood fifth on the Roll of the Irish Parliament of 1295 without any territorial designation, which indicates that the Chief Butlerage of Ireland carried with it the status of a baron at least. He then accompanied Edward I to Scotland when the Coronation Stone was purloined and in 1299, at the age of 30, died unmarried.
He was succeeded by his brother, Edmund, aged about 26, as 6th Butler. Edmund is an enigma. Like many of his family, he was governor of Ireland. But it was with some reluctance that he accepted the post. Perhaps he had no desire for high office, especially under such an inept monarch as Edward II. Whether his governorship was a success is open to question. It was bedevilled by the Scottish invasion of Ireland under the Bruce brothers and very likely Edmund was no match for them as a general. Yet, he was said to have bestowed peace on the land so effectually that he was able to travel from his barony at Arklow to Limerick, guarded by no more than three horsemen, and his services were recognised and rewarded. In 1315, Edward II granted him the castle and manor of Karryk MacGriffyn and Roscrea to be held by him and his heirs, under the name and honour of Earl of Karryk. Whether there was an accompanying charter actually creating him Earl of Carrick is not now known. He was so styled in a mandate witnessed by Edward II himself at York in 1316, and also, although sporadically, in the Close, Patent and Fine Rolls. But it was an ephemeral earldom and no one knows why. Historians have argued endlessly about it. The explanation could be that in the circumstances the title was of no real consequence. Edmund was already hereditary Chief Butler of Ireland and, as such, had a high place in Parliament. So "Earl of Karryk" may not have meant a great deal to him. Unlike his father-in-law, who bleated that he had the title but not the fleece of Earl of Kildare, Edmund had the fleece but no need for the title of Earl of Carrick. On the other hand, allegations of treachery which were later made against him, though false, may have swayed the wayward king against Edmund.
At all events, with his fair name cleared, he turned to more lasting things in the evening of his life, and in March, 1321, set forth with his devoted younger brother, Thomas, 1st Lord Dunboyne, for Spain, on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostela. Spiritually so fortified, Edmund died on his return to London in September; and to this day the Dunboynes bear three escallop shells on their shield to commemorate that pilgrimage. It was performed more than 150 years before Pope Sixtus IV placed pilgrimages to the shrine of St James on official equality with those to Rome and Jerusalem. [Butler Family History]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1130 in Weeton & Preese, Fylde, Lancashire, England
- b.~ 1165 in West Dereham, Downham, Norfolk, England d.>Apr 1206 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1133 in Parham, Plomesgate, Suffolk, England
- b.1200 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland d.19 Jul 1230 in Poitou, France
- b.1153 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1227 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1176 in Hazlewood and Storiths, Skipton, Yorkshire, England d.< 1250 in Arklow, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1155 in Edlington, Doncaster, Yorkshire, England
- b.1223 in Norfolk, England d.26 Dec 1248 in Monastery of Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland
- b.~ 1145 in Huntspill, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1170 in Huntspill, Somerset, England d. in Ireland
- b.~ 1202 in Ireland d.<04 Sep 1225
- b.~ 1242 in Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.26 Sep 1285 in Arklow Castle, Wicklow, Ireland
- b.1157 in Norfolk, England d.1198
- b.~ 1178 in Norfolk, England d.1205 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1157 in England
- b.~ 1198 in Galway Castle, Connaught, Ireland d.17 FEB 1242/43 in Gascony, France
- b.~ 1142 in Clare, Munster, Ireland d.1194
- b.~ 1178 in Munster, Clare, Ireland
- b.~ 1154 in Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1224 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1150 in Stanstead, Essex, England d. in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1190 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland d.~ 1211
- b.~ 1208 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1170 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland d.1228
- b.~ 1192 in Galway, Connaught, Ireland
- b.~ 1170 in Ireland d.1248
- b.~ 1271 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland d.13 Sep 1321 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1134 in Cherhill, Wiltshire, England d.>08 May 1198 in Pleshey, Essex, England
- b.< 1163 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England d.14 Oct 1213 in Shouldham Priory, Downham, Norfolk, England
- b.1092 in Great Waltham, Essex, England d.14 Sep 1144 in Mildenhall, Suffolk, England
- b.1138 in Costow, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1112 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England d.21 Oct 1166 in Chicksands Priory, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1208 in Shere, Surrey, England d.23 Nov 1258 in Farmbridge, Essex, England
- b.1090 in Hertford, Hertfordshire & Clare, Suffolk, England d.15 Apr 1136 in Slain by Welsh near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
- b.1116 in Tunbridge Castle, Kent, England d.1173 in Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1098 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England d.> 1142
- b.~ 1168 in Hereford, Herefordshire, England d.<04 Jun 1225
- b.~ 1105 in St-Hilaire-du-Harcouet, Manche, Normandy, France d.~ 1154 in Field Dalling, Walsingham, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1137 in Burkenham, Norfolk, England d.1173 in Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1109 in France
- b.~ 1252 in Shere, Surrey, England d.~26 May 1303
- b.~ 1095 in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, England d.~ 1177 in Thetford Church, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1150 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.<02 Aug 1221 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.1116 in Hedingham, Essex, England d.> 1185
- b.1186 in Framlingham Castle, Suffolk, England d.BET 11 AND 18 FEB 1224/25 in Thetford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1125 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England d.1162
- b.~ 1155 in Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England
- b.1125 in Leicestershire, England d.> 1185
- b.~ 1212 in Thetford, Norfolk, England d.1252
- b.< 1109 in Winterbourne Monkton, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.<29 Sep 1165 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England
- b.1146 in Rockley, Marlborough, Wiltshire, England d.14 May 1219 in Caversham, Henley, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1127 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.03 Jun
- b.~ 1192 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.27 Mar 1248 in Tintern Abbey, Chapel Hill, Monmouthsire, England
- b.~ 1130 in Tunbridge, Kent, England d.20 Apr 1176 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.~ 1172 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales d.1220 in Pembroke, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- b.~ 1141 in Ireland d.> 1186 in Waterford, Ireland
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Children
James Butler , 1st Earl of Ormond
James was born about 1305 in Knocktopher Castle, Arklow, Wicklow, Ireland. He died in Moyalvi, Tipperary, Ireland. He was buried in Gowran, Kilkenny, Ireland.
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