Edmund Carew

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Sir Edmund Carew (* around 1464; † June 24, 1513 at Thérouanne ) was an English nobleman and military man.

Origin and family

Edmund Carew came from the Carew family of Mohun's Ottery , a gentry family with estates in south Wales and south west England. He was the eldest of the three children of Sir Nicholas Carew (also called John Carew ) (around 1423-1470) and his wife Margaret Dinham († 1471). His father was a son of Thomas Carew, the eldest son of Nicholas Carew († 1447 or 1449) of Mohun's Ottery, but died in 1470. He and his wife, who died a little later, were buried in Westminster Abbey . Since Edmund Carew was a minor when his father died, his guardian was Anne of York , Duchess of Exeter and then Joan Dynham , his maternal grandmother. Edmund Mohun's Ottery in Devon and Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire were inherited from his father, and through his mother he also inherited from her brother John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham , a Lord High Treasurer of King Henry VII. His younger brother Sir John Carew served at the royal court and fell in 1512 as captain of the regent in the naval battle of Saint Mathieu . His sister Jane married Robert Cary from Devon.

Carew Castle, ancestral home of the Carew family, which Edmund Carew had to mortgage around 1490

Life

Carew may have studied at Lincoln's Inn in London. He supported the claim of Henry Tudor to the English throne and was around 1485, possibly after the Battle of Bosworth Field , the defeated knight . From 1490 he took on numerous offices in Devon, Dorset and Somerset . He was responsible for keeping the peace and for raising troops, served as sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in 1493 and 1511 and assisted the king in reviewing his income from south-west England. In 1492 he was one of the knights who greeted a French embassy on their arrival in England. During the Perkin Warbeck revolt in 1497, he and William Courtenay led a relief army to besieged Exeter . After Courtenay's death in 1511, Carew rode a courser through Exeter Cathedral in a ceremony to present the dead earl's battle ax to Bishop Hugh Oldham . In 1513 Carew served as commander of the artillery in the English army that had invaded northern France via Calais . During the siege of Thérouanne , Carew was killed by a French cannonball during a meeting of the commanders in Lord Herbert's tent . He was buried on June 26, 1513 in the Church of Saint Nicholas in Calais.

Henry VII rewarded Carew's services by letting him lease the royal hunting parks in Devon and Somerset in 1508. However, this was nowhere near enough to cover the costs Carew had incurred for his services to the crown. He was deeply in debt and therefore had to pledge the family seat of Carew Castle in the 1490s. The castle could not be redeemed and his heirs had to pay off his debts for decades.

Marriage and offspring

Carew had married Katherine Huddesfield, a daughter of Sir William Huddesfield and his wife Elizabeth Bozum, around 1478. He had eight children with her, including:

  • Catherine Carew ∞ Philip Champernowne
  • Dorothy Carew
  • Sir William Carew (around 1483–1536) ∞ Joan Courtenay
  • Thomas Carew ∞ Elizabeth Courtenay
  • George Carew (1497 / 98–1583)
  • Sir Gawain Carew (around 1503–1585)

His main heir was his son William, the father of George and Peter Carew . Edmund Carew's daughter Catherine became the grandmother of Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh through her daughter Catherine . His son Thomas bought Bickleigh Castle by marriage and started the Carew von Bickleigh family.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westminster Abbey: Nicholas Carew. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ Bickleigh Castle: The Castle - Historical Timeline. Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Carew, Edmund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew, Sir Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and military
DATE OF BIRTH around 1464
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1513
Place of death at Thérouanne