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
James
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*James (name), the typically masculine first name James
* James (surname), various people with the last name James
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People
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inherited the earldom. Following the extinction of the senior family line, his great-grandson,
Piers Butler, became the 8th
Earl of Ormond.
Richard was born at
Kilkenny Castle
Kilkenny Castle ( ga, Caisleán Chill Chainnigh, IPA: kaʃlʲaːnˠˈçiːl̪ʲˈxan̪ʲiː is a castle in Kilkenny, Ireland built in 1195 to control a fording-point of the River Nore and the junction of several routeways. It was a symbol o ...
and was named in honour of the visiting King
Richard II, who had joined his cousin,
James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, to campaign against the Irish.
Marriage and children
Richard lived at
Polestown Castle and went against the
Statutes of Kilkenny
The Statutes of Kilkenny were a series of thirty-five acts enacted by the Parliament of Ireland at Kilkenny in 1366, aiming to curb the decline of the Hiberno-Norman Lordship of Ireland.
Background to the Statutes
By the middle decades of the ...
by marrying Catherine (1395–1420), the daughter of an Irish nobleman, Gildas O’Reilly, Lord of East
Breifne.
[''Lodge, John'', ''The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom'', 1789, Vol. IV, pg. 17.] By his wife he had several children, the eldest of whom adopted the Gaelic title of The MacRichard of Ossory.
* Sir
Edmund MacRichard Butler (1420–1464)
See also
*
Butler dynasty
Butler ( ga, de Buitléir) is the name of a noble family whose members were, for several centuries, prominent in the administration of the Lordship of Ireland and the Kingdom of Ireland. They rose to their highest prominence as Dukes of Ormonde ...
References
* ''Ormond, Duke of, Life 1610-'88: Thomas A. Carte, M.A. 6 vols. Oxford, 1851''
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1395 births
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Richard
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'stro ...
15th-century Irish people
Younger sons of barons