Henrietta Butler, Viscountess Galmoye, previously Henrietta Waldegrave, Baroness Waldegrave (née Lady Henrietta FitzJames; 1667 – 3 April 1730), was an illegitimate daughter of

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, subsequently King of England, Scotland and Ireland, by his

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, Arabella Churchill (a sister of the first

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). Upon marrying she became Lady Waldegrave, and then with her second marriage Viscountess Galmoye, as well as Countess of Newcastle (in the Jacobite Peerage).

Early life and marriage

She was the older sister of the celebrated

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. She was brought up a

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and married into a family of the same religion. On 29 November 1683, she married

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, and by him had two children: *Arabella Waldegrave *

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Later life

She accompanied her father and his wife in their exile and lived some years at

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in France. After her husband's death in 1689, she was involved with an Irish soldier,

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. She subsequently married

Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye, otherwise Viscount Galmoy, (21 March 1652 – 18 June 1740) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman. He was descended from the 10th Earl of Ormond. He was the son of Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye and Eleanor White. ...

, on 3 April 1695. He had been created Earl of Newcastle in the Jacobite Peerage in 1692. The marriage was childless. She died in 1730 and was buried in

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Ancestry

References

The peerage page
1667 births 1730 deaths

Henrietta FitzJames Henrietta Butler, Viscountess Galmoye, previously Henrietta Waldegrave, Baroness Waldegrave (née Lady Henrietta FitzJames; 1667 – 3 April 1730), was an illegitimate daughter of James Stuart, Duke of York, subsequently King of England, Scot ...

Illegitimate children of James II of England

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