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Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye

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Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount of Galmoye (21 March 1652 – 18 June 1740) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman and the grandson of Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye, and his wife, Eleanor White. His father was Colonel The Honourable Piers Butler who was murdered after being taken prisoner at Lambstown, Co. Wexford after safe quarter given, in 1650. He married Elizabeth Mathew and with her had one son, Colonel Edward Butler, who was killed at the Battle of Malplaquet in 1709.