Historian Thomas Carte uses exclusively "Butler" in his lengthy introduction to ...

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Historian Thomas Carte uses exclusively "Butler" in his lengthy introduction to The Life of James, Duke of Ormond (1893), with the exception of "le Butiller" when first referring to Theobald FitzWalter and Theobald II (1200-1230), the 1st and 2nd Chief Butlers. In The Peerage, "Butler" is used exclusively beginning with Theobald, 3rd Chief Butler (1223-1248). Cracroft's Peerage uses "Butler" to refer to all the Earls of Ormond (created 1328). Burke's Peerage uses "Butler" with one noted exception being "Edmund le Boteler" (born ca.1274). A different approach appears in Cokayne (Vol. X, 2nd edition, 1945, p.131), which uses "le Botiller" up until the 1400s, thereafter "Butler".

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