Butler
The cellarer's name — Norman household to every county.
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The seat of Butler
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Current mission
No mission proclaimed. The chief, once seated, sets the clan’s public focus — a campaign, a contest, a piece of restoration, a year of remembrance.
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Occupational — butteler, wine-cellar officer. Anglo-Norman noble households froze the office into surname.
The history of Butler
A great lord's **butler** guarded the buttery — not butter, but the **butts** of wine — the power to pour at high table. The office married trust and theatre; petty chronicles name butlers who bankrupted earls by embezzlement and others who died shielding their lord. When the job title froze into surname, it marked households that had once tasted castle air — however distantly.