The rise of great families, other essays, and stories . and. 1-^ THE RISE OF GREAT FAMILIES. Queensberry, Earls of Atliole, Buclian, Morton, SelkirkMarch, Dumbarton, Forfar, and Butler ; and BaronsDouglas, Rijoon, and Solway. IDE by side with the Howards ofEnofland and the Douglases ofScotland, Ireland can fairly placeher own Geraldines of Kildareand Desmond, and her Butlersof Ormonde, both dating theirrise to greatness from the first invasion of Ireland andfrom their share in the territories then won. TheAnglo-Norman founder of the House of Ormonde wasTheobald Walter, to whom King Henry II. g
The rise of great families, other essays, and stories . and. 1-^ THE RISE OF GREAT FAMILIES. Queensberry, Earls of Atliole, Buclian, Morton, SelkirkMarch, Dumbarton, Forfar, and Butler ; and BaronsDouglas, Rijoon, and Solway. IDE by side with the Howards ofEnofland and the Douglases ofScotland, Ireland can fairly placeher own Geraldines of Kildareand Desmond, and her Butlersof Ormonde, both dating theirrise to greatness from the first invasion of Ireland andfrom their share in the territories then won. TheAnglo-Norman founder of the House of Ormonde wasTheobald Walter, to whom King Henry II. grantedthe Chief Butlerage of Ireland, and thus originated aname, destined to become one of the most distinguishedin the annals of that country. Hubert Walter, brotherof the first Chief Butler, happened to fill the primatialsee of Canterbury when Hichard I. died leaving the<3rown to his brother John, and it was mainly throughhis influence that the latter was enabled to succeed tothe throne, to the prejudice of his unfortunate nephewArthur; and in return
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