Notes and references
Notes
Notes
- ↑ thepeerage.com Theobald Butler, 1st and last Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim
- ↑ Dunboyne 1968, pp. 16–17. "Butler Family Tree condensed"
- ↑ Burke 1866, p. 96, left column, line 12. "By Letters Patent, date 4 August, 1603."
- ↑ Burke 1866, p. 96, left column, line 22. "... d.s.p. in January 1613, when the viscounty became extinct."
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References
- Burke, Bernard (1866). A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (New ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 11501348.
- Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. II (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Bass to Canning (for Butler of Tulleophelim)
- Dunboyne, Patrick Theobald Tower Butler, Baron (1968). Butler Family History (2nd ed.). Kilkenny: Rothe House.
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