Theobald (Botiller) Butler (1200 - 1230)

Born 1200 in Arklow Castle, Wicklow, Ireland

Ancestors

Husband of Joan (Marreis) Boteler — married about 1220 in England [uncertain]

Husband of Rohese (Verdun) Butler — married 4 Sep 1225 in Staffordshire, England

Descendants

Died 19 Jul 1230 at about age 30 in Poitou, Duchy of Aquitaine

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Note: There were numerous spelling variations on "Butler" in the 1100s and 1200s (le Boteler, le Butiller, le Botiller, single letter "l" or double letter "ll", etc.) depending on the person producing the original document.^[1]

Biography

Theobald II Botiller was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Theobald Butler or Le Botiller was aged 6 years in 1206, so born in 1200,^[2] in January at Ormond or Arklow Castle, Wicklow, Leinster, Ireland.

Theobald was the only son and heir of Theobald Butler formerly FitzWalter and his wife, Maud, the daughter of Robert le Vavasour,^[3] son and heir of Sir William, and his wife, Juliana, the daughter of Gilbert Ross, of Steeton, esq.

Theobald had siblings:

1. Maude, married Gerard de Prendergast.^[4]

His father died between August 1205 and 14 February 1206.^[2] His mother was remarried before 1 October 1207 to Fulk Fitzwarin.^[2]

Theobald had livery of his estates on 2 July 1221 and 18 July 1222.^[2]

Theobald married Joan, the sister and eventual coheir of John du Marais, and daughter of Geoffrey du Marais, Justiciar of Ireland.^[2] Theobald and Joan had children:

1. Theobald Butler, he was of full age on 11 June 1244, married in or before 1242, Margery, daughter of Richard de Burgh.^[2]

After his first wife's death, the King requested on 4 September 1225 that Theobald marry Rohese, heiress of Croxden and Foundress of Grace Dieu Monastery, co Leicester, only daughter and heir of Nicholas de Verdon, of Alton, co Stafford.^[2] Theobold and Rohese had several children of whom their sons retained their mother's surname.^[2] They were:

1. John de Verdon;^[2]
2. Theobald de Verdon senior;^[2]
3. Theobald de Verdon junior;^[2] and
4. Maud, was married to John FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel, feudal Lord of Clun and Oswestry.^[2]

On 26 October 1229 Theobald was summoned as Theobaldus Pincerna to attend the King, Henry III, into Brittany.^[2]

Theobald died on 19 July 1230 in Poitou, and was buried in the Abbey of Arklow co Wicklow, Ireland.^[2] At that time Poitou was not part of France, it had been part of the Duchy of Aquitaine, which through the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to King Henry II, was ruled by the Kings of England.

His widow Rohese died before 22 February 1246/7.^[2]

Theobald Le Butzllen

Discrepancies

It says in The Complete Peerage that Theobald was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1247,^[2] however, as he died in 1230 it was either not this Theobald holding the office, or the year he was appointed is incorrect.

Sources

1. ↑ Historian Thomas Carte uses exclusively "Butler" in his lengthy introduction to The Life of James, Duke of Ormond (1893), with the exception of "le Butiller" when first referring to Theobald FitzWalter and Theobald II (1200-1230), the 1st and 2nd Chief Butlers. In The Peerage, "Butler" is used exclusively beginning with Theobald, 3rd Chief Butler (1223-1248). Cracroft's Peerage uses "Butler" to refer to all the Earls of Ormond (created 1328). Burke's Peerage uses "Butler" with one noted exception being "Edmund le Boteler" (born ca.1274). A different approach appears in Cokayne (Vol. X, 2nd edition, 1945, p.131), which uses "le Botiller" up until the 1400s, thereafter "Butler".
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15} George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland and Great Britain and the United Kingdom Extant Extinct or Dormant, Ed. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, II Bass to Canning, (London: The St Catherine Press Ltd, 1912), accessed 2 July 2014, https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo02coka#page/448/mode/2up pp.448.
3. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage of England Scotland Ireland and Great Britain and the United Kingdom Extant Extinct or Dormant, Ed. The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, II Bass to Canning, (London: The St Catherine Press Ltd, 1912), accessed 1 July 2014, https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo02coka#page/446/mode/2up pp.447-8.
4. ↑ Leslie Stephen, ed., Dictionary of national biography, Vol. VIIII Burton-Cantwell, (London: Smith, Elder, & co., 1886), accessed 1 July 2014, https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati08stepuoft#page/76/mode/2up pp.77-8.

See also:

• Profile in the Dictionary of Irish Biography, author Ronan Mackay (2009):
  • https://www.dib.ie/biography/butler-le-botiller-fitz-walter-pincerna-walter-theobald-a1291
• The various generations of Theobald Butler are mentioned often in the Calendar of Ormond Deeds, Vol.1, covering the years 1172-1350:
  • https://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/Calendar%20of%20Ormond%20Deeds%20Vol.%20I.%201172-1350/Calendar%20of%20Ormond%20Deeds%20Vol.%20I.%201172-1350.pdf
• Wikipedia:Theobald_le_Botiller
• Brian C Tompsett, Department of Computer Science, University of Hull, Royal and Noble Genealogical Data, Copyright 1994-2001, Version March 25, 2001, https://web.archive.org/web/20050826063806/http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/GEDCOM.html,
• Butler, Bryant. The Butler Family of Lebanon, Connecticut (The Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vt., 1934) Page 9
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