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 son of Edward Butler, 2nd Viscount Galmoye, and his wife, Eleanor White. He married Elizabeth Mathew and with her had one son, Edward, who predeceased him in 1709.

At the Glorious Revolution, he followed James II into exile in France. He commanded a regiment at the Battle of the Boyne and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Aughrim, but released after the Treaty of Limerick. Galmoye was created Earl of Newcastle in the Jacobite peerage in 1692. After the death of his first wife, he married Henrietta FitzJames, daughter of James II and Arabella Churchill, on 3 April 1695. The English Parliament attainted him and declared his titles forfeit in 1697. Galmoye later served in the French army as a major-general. He died on at age 88 in Paris.

Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Edward Butler	Viscount Galmoye 1667–1697	Succeeded by Forfeit