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Edmund Butler Earl of Carrick
d. 1321
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Died
1321
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Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick, was Justiciar of Ireland and put down the Bruce invasion's Irish allies; his son James was raised to the earldom of Ormond.
Research notes
EDMUND BUTLER, Earl of CARRICK (c.1268-1321), Justiciar of Ireland; m. Joan FitzGerald (dau. of the 1st Earl of Kildare, opens the KILDARE Geraldines, note-only); father of James 1st Earl of Ormond (I99746, our line). Standard documented Anglo-Norman/Irish genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened.