George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon
George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon ( February 16, 1548 - September 9, 1603 ) was an English nobleman, courtier and patron of the theater.
He was the son of Henry Carey and the paternal grandson of Mary Boleyn , the sister of Anna Boleyn (Queen Elizabeth I was thus a cousin of Henry Carey). He studied from 1560 at the Trinity College of Cambridge University .
1566 he accompanied the Earl of Bedford on an official mission to Scotland for the christening of James I in 1569 he was at the defeat of the Scottish uprising ( Rising of the North involved) and was for his services on May 11, 1570 Berwick for Knights defeated. In 1571 (for Hertfordshire) and several times between 1584 and 1593 (for Hampshire) he was a member of the lower house of the English Parliament. In 1580/81 he was Marshal of the Queen's Household. During the threat from the Spanish Armada he defended the Isle of Wight (from 1582 he was Knight Marshal and Captain of the Isle of Wight and 1585/86 Vice Admiral of the Southampton Fleet). When his father died on July 23, 1596, he inherited his title of nobility as 2nd Baron Hunsdon and in 1597, like his father, became Lord Chamberlain of the Household . On April 17, 1597 he also became a member of the Privy Council and on April 23, 1597 Knight of the Order of the Garter .
Like his father, he was the patron saint of the Lord Chamberlain's Men theater company , for which William Shakespeare also worked.
Since 1574 he was married to Elizabeth Spencer (1552-1618), who was also the patroness of the arts. She was distantly related to Edmund Spenser , whom she patronized (as well as John Dowland and Thomas Nashe ). She herself translated Petrarch . With Elizabeth he had a daughter, Elizabeth Carey (1576-1635), who married Sir Thomas Berkeley (1575-1611), son and heir to the 7th Baron Berkeley .
He died of a venereal disease in connection with an anti-mercury cure and is buried in Westminster Abbey . Since he had no male offspring, his brother John inherited him as 3rd Baron Hunsdon.
Web links
- George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon at thepeerage.com
- Sir George Carey's biography at angelfire.com
- George Carey at findagrave.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wallace T. MacCaffrey: Carey, Henry, first Baron Hunsdon (1526-1596), courtier and administrator . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press 2004-12, online edition May 2011 , accessed October 23, 2012
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon |
Baron Hunsdon 1596-1603 |
John Carey, 3rd Baron Hunsdon |
| William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham |
Lord Chamberlain 1597-1603 |
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carey, George, 2nd Baron Hunsdon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carey, Sir George; Hunsdon, George Carey 2nd Baron |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1548 |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 9, 1603 |