Walter Butler of Polestown (died 1483)

Walter Butler of Polestown was High Sheriff of County Kilkenny, Ireland in 1483.[1]

He was the second son of Sir Edmund MacRichard Butler.[2] His nephew Piers would become the 8th Earl of Ormond.[3] He was the father of Edmond Butler of Polestown.

See also

References
  1. George Dames Burtchaell (1888). Genealogical memoirs of the members of Parliament for the county and city of Kilkenny. Sealy, Bryers & Walker. p. 27.
  2. Lodge, John (1789). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History Of The Present Nobility Of That Kingdom, Vol IV. Dublin: James Moore, p. 19.
  3. Byrne, Frances John, et al (2002). A New History of Ireland, Volume 9. New York: Oxford University Press, pg 169.


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