Her mother was Cecilia MacCarthy Reagh and her father was Edmund Butler, the baron Dunboyne.

Her husband and his brother, John, had been placed in the Tower of London the year before and there was a dispute about who should look after their estates.

[1] Her success was well received and it was proposed by the English that she should continue to manage the earldom partnered by the Limerick Bishop Hugh Lacy.

Her husband's brother and fellow prisoner, John, would have been disappointed that she gave birth to "a son and heir" while in England as this meant that he had little chance of ever becoming the Earl.

[1] Her husband eventually escaped back to Ireland where he challenged the rule of the crown.

[1] She remarried to Donough O'Connor Sligo who was an Irish Lord at the suggestion of Sir Robert Cecil.

She had a large memorial built in Sligo Abbey in 1624 where she was, in time, buried with her second husband.