Helen Butler [SEP] father
Helen Butler
Helen Butler (died 28 January 1631), 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:
- Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles (died 15 December 1619), who married Elizabeth Poyntz, daughter of Sir John Poyntz and Elizabeth Sydenham.
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of James Butler, 10th Baron Dunboyne. From this marriage were born the Lady Margaret Barry who subsequently married Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy as her first husband; the Lady Ellen Barry who subsequently married John Fitzgerald of Ballymaloe; the Lady Helen Barry who married Thomas Butler, 10th Earl of Ormonde; and the Honourable David Fitz-David Barry who predeceased his father. He married secondly, Julia MacCarthy, daughter of Cormac MacCarthy and Joan Butler.
At the outbreak of the Desmond Rebellions, his father, the then Viscount Buttevant, supported