Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye
Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount
Marriage and issue
He married Anne Mathew and with her had one son, Colonel Edward Butler, who was killed at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709. After the death of his first wife, he married Henrietta FitzJames, the illegitimate daughter of King James II and Arabella Churchill, on 3 April 1695. She was the widow of Henry Waldegrave, 1st Baron Waldegrave.
Life and career
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In 1677 he took the degree of LL.D. at Oxford. Under
In 1692 he was created Earl of Newcastle in County Limerick in the Jacobite peerage of Ireland. In France he was named Colonel of the 2nd Queen's Regiment of Irish Horse in the service of that country, and served with distinction in various battles of the War of the Spanish Succession, also becoming a Lieutenant-General in the Spanish army. He was at the siege of Roses in 1693, and in 1694 was a Brigadier attached to the army of Germany. He served in Italy and other parts of the Continent from 1701 to 1703, sharing all the fortunes of the Irish Brigade.
He later served in the French army as a Lieutenant-General. He was created Brigadier of Cavalry in 1694. Lord Galmoy (as he spelt his name) died in Paris on 18 June 1740 and was buried at St Paul's there. O'Callaghan says: "The successive claimants of the title of Galmoy were officers in France down to the Revolution; in whose armies, as well as in others, various gentlemen have honourably represented a name, of which the illustrious General Lafayette is related to have said, in the war for the independence of the United States of America, that 'whenever he wanted anything well done, he got a Butler to do it.'"[2]
Notwithstanding the attainder, the viscountcy was assumed by his nephew, James Butler of the Irish Brigade in France, the son of the Viscount's brother, Richard Butler of Galmoye.
See also
References
- Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. .