The Buttlar family (also Butler, Buttler or Treusch von Buttlar) is the name of an old Upper Franconian-Hessian noble family. The lords of Buttlar originate from the ancient nobility (German: uradel) of Buchonia. Branches of the family also reached Westphalia, Saxony, Prussia, Curonia, France, Poland, Russia and Hungary, and remain partly to this day. The Buttlar and Treusch von Buttlar families of Hessen has since 1660 belonged to the Old Hessian Knighthood, the oldest foundation in Hessen.

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Lieutenant General Carl-Hubertus von Butler speaking in Leipzig (2010)

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  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon. Vol. 3, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1861, pp. 180–182. (Digitalisat)
  • Heinrich Laag (1957), "Buttlar, von", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 3, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 80–80; (full text online)
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Neues preussisches Adelslexicon. Vol. 2, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, pp. 442–444. (Digitalisat)
  • Ludwig von Buttlar: Das Werden unseres Geschlechts, Vacha (Rhön) 1925, [2. Aufl.]
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels, hrsg. von der Vereinigung des Adels in Bayern, Vol. 11, pp. 519–522.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Vol. II, Vol. 58 der Gesamtreihe, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
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