Theobald le Botiller 2nd Chief Butler
d. 1230
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Theobald le Botiller, second Chief Butler of Ireland, served as Lord Justice of Ireland and founded the Cistercian abbey of Wotheny in County Limerick. He died in 1230, young, leaving the Butler inheritance and his formidable widow Rohese de Verdun to raise the heir.
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THEOBALD le BOTILLER, 2nd Chief Butler of Ireland (1200-1230); father of the 3rd Chief Butler (our line). Standard documented Anglo-Norman/Irish genealogy per the cited authorities; contested rungs note-only, not hardened. ||CP AUDIT 26 Oct 2026|| ✓ CP II 'Butler' p.448: only s. and h. of Theobald Walter, aged 6 in 1206; livery 1221-2; summoned cum equis et armis to Brittany 26 Oct 1229 as Theobaldus Pincerna; 'He m., 1stly, Joan, sister and in her issue coh. of John du Marais, da. of Geoffrey du M., Justiciar [I.]. He m., 2ndly (shortly after 4 Sep. 1225 ...), Rohese, only da. and h. of Nicholas de Verdon, of Alton, co. Stafford'; 'He d. 19 July 1230, in Poitou, and was bur. in the Abbey of Arklow.' Theobald 3rd (our line) by Joan; Maud (also our line, via FitzAlan) by Rohese. Joan added 26 Oct 2026. Source: Complete Peerage 2nd edn vol. II (1912), 'Butler' pp.447-449 (archive.org completepeerageo02coka), read 26 Oct 2026.