Edmund Butler

an Irish man born, natural Son of Peter Earl of Ormond, was bred a Canon regular of the Order of S. Austin, and for some time studied, as is supposed, among those of his Order in Oxon, but what degree he took in divinity in this University, it doth not appear. Afterwards he became Prior of the Canon regulars of S. Edmund of Athassell in the county of Tipperary, and at length Archbishop of Cashills; to which See being consecrated in 1527. became one of the privy council to K. Hen. 8. in the Kingdom of Ireland, and had then liberty allowed him to keep his Priorship in Commendum. He died on the 5. of March, in fifteen hundred and fifty,1550-1. and was buried in his Cath. Church at Cashills near the Archbishops Throne. See more of him in Sir Jam. Wares book entit. Comment. de Praesulibus Hiberniae, p. 172. In the said See succeeded one Rowland Baron alias Fitz-Gerald, descended from the antient Family of his name living in Ireland.