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Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick (c. 1278-1321)

A younger son becomes chief butler and justiciar of Ireland, marries into the FitzGeralds, fights Bruce, shapes Gowran and Tullow, undertakes a perilous Compostela pilgrimage, dies in London, and leaves a legacy of Ormond earls and a narrowly-missed Mortimer catastrophe.