Helen Butler
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Helen Butler also known as the Honorable Helen Butler, was the daughter of Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret
and Grizel FitzPatrick. She married her second cousin Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond. Their common great-grandfather was Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond.
She had three sons and nine daughters:
Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret
Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret , was the son of Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret and Eleanor Butler. He married Grany or Grizzel FitzPatrick, daughter of Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 1st Baron Upper Ossory....
and Grizel FitzPatrick. She married her second cousin Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond. Their common great-grandfather was Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond.
She had three sons and nine daughters:
- Thomas Butler, Viscount ThurlesThomas Butler, Viscount ThurlesThomas Butler, Viscount Thurles was the son of Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond and the Honorable Helen Butler. He resided at Thurles Castle, Thurles, County Tipperary...
(died 15 December 1619), who married Elizabeth Poyntz, daughter of Sir John Poyntz and Elizabeth Sydenham. - James Butler, who died young in England.
- John Butler, who died in France, without issue.
- Margaret Butler, who married Bryan, Lord Upper-Offory
- Catharine Butler, who married Pierce Power of Monaghalargy in Tipperary, second son of Richard, Lord Poer.
- Lady Ellen (Elian) Butler (died 16 June 1663), who married Pierce Butler, 1st Viscount Ikerrin, son of Sir James Butler.
- Hellena Butler, who married James Butler of Grellagh, eldest son of James, the second Lord Dunboyne, by his second wife Margaret, daughter of Connor, Earl of ThomondEarl of Thomond"Earl of Thomond" was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created twice for the family of Ó Briain. The O'Brien dynasty were an ancient Irish sept native to north Munster....
, - Joan Butler, who married George Bagenal of Dunleckney of county Carlow, ancestor to Beauchamp Bagenal, of that place.
- Mary Butler, who died unmarried.
- Elizabeth Butler, who married first to Sir Edmond Blanchville, of Blanchville's Town, by whom she had Gerald. She secondly married Richard Burke, 6th Earl of ClanricardeRichard Burke, 6th Earl of ClanricardeRichard Burke, 6th Earl of Clanricarde, Irish peer, died August 1666.Richard was a first cousin to the previous Earl and had served under him in the royalist forces during the Irish Confederate Wars. When restored, the Clanricarde estates were heavily in debt and a great deal of litigation was...
, son of Sir William Bourke and Joan O'Shaughnessy. - Eleanor Butler, who died unmarried, in 1633
- Alice Butler, who married Terence (or Turlogh) MacBrien-Arragh.