Archbishop Edmund Butler

Edmund Casel(died 1551), was archbishop of Cashel and the illegitimate son of Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormonde. He was also known as Edmund Butler.

Parents: Piers BUTLER (8° E. Ormonde) and ???

Notes

• The Archbishop of Cashel (Irish: Ard-Easpuig Caiseal Mumhan) is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland.
• 1524-1551 Edmund Butler, Order of the Holy Trinity (or Trinitarian) Appointed Archbishop 21 October 1524; consecrated after 3 January 1525; accepted royal supremacy; died 5 March 1551
• Butler died in March 1550-1, and was buried in the cathedral, Cashel, under an elaborate marble monument which he had erected, but which does not now exist.[fn1]

Links

• BUTLER (Archbishop of Cashel) Edmund BUTLER (Archbishop of Cashel)
• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 08 Butler, Edmund
• Archbishop of Cashel
• Cashel, County Tipperary
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly
• Saints, Sinners and Scholars - Notable People and Places

Footnotes

1. Cathedral

Despite the name, the Archdiocese's episcopal seat (the cathedra) lies neither in the town of Cashel nor of Emly, but in nearby Thurles. This is due to the supplanting of the Roman Catholic archbishops from their see by the appointees of the crown on behalf of the established Church of Ireland. From the time of the English Reformation onwards, those archbishops appointed by Rome had to make their throne in whichever house in Tipperary would hide them from the forces of the crown. This state of affairs continued until the late 18th century when some of the harsher provisions of the Penal Laws were relaxed. Dr. James Butler 2nd (1774-91)[2], on being appointed by Rome moved his residence and cathedra from Cashel, favouring Thurles instead, where his successors continue to reign today.

1. The Cathedral, built between 1235 and 1270, is an aisleless building of cruciform plan, having a central tower and terminating westwards in a massive residential castle. The Hall of the Vicars Choral was built in the fifteenth century. The vicars choral were laymen (sometimes minor canons) appointed to assist in chanting the cathedral services. At Cashel there were originally eight vicars choral with their own seal. This was later reduced to five honorary vicars choral who appointed singing-men as their deputies, a practice which continued until 1836. The restoration of the Hall was undertaken by the Office of Public Works as a project in connection with the European Architectural Heritage Year, 1975. Through it visitors now enter the site.

• In 1647, during the Irish Confederate Wars, Cashel was sacked by English Parliamentarian troops under Murrough O'Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin. The Irish Confederate troops there were massacred, as were the Roman Catholic clergy, including Theobald Stapleton. Inchiquin's troops also looted or destroyed many important religious artifacts. ref: Rock of Cashel