John Carew (military)
Sir John Carew († June 6, 1362 ) was an English military man who briefly served as Justiciar of Ireland .
origin
John Carew came from the Carew family . He was a son of his father of the same name, Sir John Carew, from his second marriage to Joan, a daughter of Gilbert Talbot . His father was Lord von Carew in Pembrokeshire and also owned Moulsford in Berkshire , estates in Devon and Hampshire and Idrone in Carlow and other estates in Ireland .
Advancement as a military
Carew's father died in 1324, and after his elder half-brother Nicholas Carew died a few weeks later, John Carew inherited the family's extensive estates. He and his mother were among the Irish landowners who did not live in Ireland and therefore participated in the planned campaign of King Edward III in 1331 . to Ireland should attend. Before 1338 Carew had entered the service of the king as knight of the household. During the Hundred Years War from 1338 to 1340 he took part in the campaign to the Netherlands, from 1341 to 1342 in the campaign to Scotland and from 1342 to 1343 in the War of the Breton Succession . In 1344 Carew was a leading member of the retinue of Ralph Ufford , the new Justiciars of Ireland , who was supposed to restore English rule there. He took part in the campaign to Ulster in 1345 , during which he lost two horses. After the death of Ufford in April 1346, he became Seneschal of Trim , in addition he should keep the peace in Carlow and negotiate with the Irish chiefs. But he first took part in the campaign of Edward III. to France including the Battle of Crecy and the Siege of Calais .
Senior Official in Ireland
After the campaign in France, Carew returned to Ireland before August 28, 1349, when he was appointed escheator there, responsible for the fallen fiefs of the king in Ireland. He held this office with short interruptions until 1358. From October 3, 1349 to the arrival of the new Justiciars Thomas Rokeby on December 19, 1349 the office of Justiciars of Ireland. He defended the County of Dublin against the raids by Uí Bhroin of Wicklow . In 1359 he took part in two large council meetings in Dublin and Waterford , at which the English discussed the defense of Ireland. A seasoned civil servant, he served Lionel of Antwerp when he was Lieutenant of Ireland , and in July 1361 the king ordered his son Lionel of Antwerp to listen to Carew's advice. As Knight Banneret , Carew commanded nine men-at-arms and ten mounted archers from August 14, 1361 to May 13, 1362 . He died a little later, presumably in Ireland.
Family and offspring
Carew married twice. In his first marriage he had married Margaret Mohun, a daughter of John de Mohun, 1st Baron Mohun . With her he had at least one son:
- Leonard Carew (1342-1369)
His second wife Elizabeth and two other sons, William and Edmund, survived him.
Web links
- Robin Frame: Carew, Sir John (d.1362). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
- Sir John Carew on thepeerage.com , accessed May 22, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carew, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carew, Sir John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English military and civil servant in Ireland |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 14th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 6, 1362 |