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Viscount Mountgarret is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.
The title was created in 1550 for the Hon. Richard Butler, younger son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond.<ref name="page 2808"/> Butler had largely rebuilt the tower house at Mountgarret in County Wexford.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> His grandson, the third Viscount, was outlawed and excepted from pardon in 1652, one year after his death. His son, the fourth Viscount, received a pardon for all treasons and rebellions from King Charles II and was restored to his estates.
He was succeeded by his son, the fifth Viscount who was a supporter of King James II and led the siege of Derry in 1688 to 1689. Lord Mountgarret was taken prisoner and outlawed, with his estates forfeited. However, in 1715 the outlawry was reversed and in 1721 he claimed his seat in the Irish House of Lords.<ref name ="page 2812"/>
His great-grandson, the eleventh Viscount, represented County Kilkenny in the Irish House of Commons.<ref name="page 704"/> He was succeeded by his son, the twelfth Viscount. He was made Earl of Kilkenny in the Peerage of Ireland in 1793. The earldom technically became extinct on his death in 1846, when he was succeeded in the viscountcy by his nephew, the thirteenth Viscount.
Despite the official title version, members of the Butler family have been known to refer to themselves as the rightful heirs to both the earldom and dukedom of Kilkenny.<ref name="page 2813"/><ref name="page 2386"/> His son, the fourteenth Viscount, assumed in 1891 by Royal licence the surname of Rawson-Butler and the arms of Rawson (which were those of his maternal grandfather) when he inherited the Nidd Hall estate but in 1902 he resumed by Royal licence the surname of Butler only.<ref name="page 2813"/> In 1911 he was created Baron Mountgarret, of Nidd in the West Riding of the County of York, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. Template:As of the titles are held by his great-great-grandson, the eighteenth Viscount, who succeeded his father in 2004. He is understood to be the likely heir to the ancient earldom of Ormond (created in 1328) as well as to the 16th century earldom of Ossory, but has not successfully proven the claim.<ref name="page 2806"/>
The family seat is Stainley House, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire. The ancestral family home was Nidd Hall, also near Harrogate.
Viscounts Mountgarret (created 1550)Edit
- Richard Butler, 1st Viscount Mountgarret (1500–1571)<ref name="page 2808">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edmund Butler, 2nd Viscount Mountgarret (died 1602)<ref name="page 2811">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Richard Butler, 3rd Viscount Mountgarret (1578–1651)<ref name ="page 2812">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edmund Butler, 4th Viscount Mountgarret (1595–1679)<ref name ="page 2812"/>
- Richard Butler, 5th Viscount Mountgarret (died 1706)<ref name ="page 2812"/>
- Edmund Butler, 6th Viscount Mountgarret (1663–1735)<ref name ="page 2812"/>
- Richard Butler, 7th Viscount Mountgarret (1685–1736)<ref name="page 3011">Template:Cite book</ref>
- James Butler, 8th Viscount Mountgarret (1686–1749)<ref name="page 3939">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edmund Butler, 9th Viscount Mountgarret (1687–1751)<ref name ="page 2812"/>
- Edmund Butler, 10th Viscount Mountgarret (died 1779)<ref name ="page 2812"/>
- Edmund Butler, 11th Viscount Mountgarret (1745–1793)<ref name="page 704">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edmund Butler, 12th Viscount Mountgarret (1771–1846) (created Earl of Kilkenny in 1793)<ref name="page 2813">Template:Cite book</ref>
Earls of Kilkenny (1793)Edit
- Edmund Butler, 1st Earl of Kilkenny, 12th Viscount Mountgarret (1771–1846)<ref name="page 2813"/>
Viscounts Mountgarret (reverted)Edit
- Henry Edmund Butler, 13th Viscount Mountgarret (1816–1900)<ref name="page 2386">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Henry Edmund Butler, 14th Viscount Mountgarret (1844–1912)<ref name="page 2813"/>
- Edmund Somerset Butler, 15th Viscount Mountgarret (1875–1918)<ref name="page 2813"/>
- Piers Henry Augustine Butler, 16th Viscount Mountgarret (1903–1966)<ref name="page 2813"/>
- Richard Henry Piers Butler, 17th Viscount Mountgarret (1936–2004)<ref name="page 2806">Template:Cite book</ref>
- Piers James Richard Butler, 18th Viscount Mountgarret (b. 1961)<ref name="page 2806"/>
The heir apparent is the present holder's son, the Hon. Theo Oliver Stafford Butler (b. 2015).
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- Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, Template:Page needed
- Mosley, Charles (editor). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes. Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003.
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