Thomas Carew (military)

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Sir Thomas Carew (* uncertain: 1368; † before January 27, 1431 ) was an English military man.

Origin and youth

Thomas Carew came from the Carew family . He was a son of Sir Leonard Carew and thus a grandson of Sir John Carew . His mother was believed to be Alice, a daughter of Sir Edmund Fitzalan. His father died as early as 1369, so that Thomas Carew became a king's ward as heir to his father's extensive estates in Wales, south-west England and Ireland. Several male relatives took over the management of his estates.

Service in Ireland and Wales

In 1394 Carew took part in King Richard II's first campaign to Ireland. During the campaign he was knighted . He then remained in the service of Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March in Ireland until autumn 1395 . Subsequently, Carew is not mentioned again until 1402 when he was appointed administrator of Narberth Castle during the Owain Glyndŵr rebellion in Wales in October 1402 . In June 1403 he was to dig troops in Pembrokeshire together with Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester . Carew did not support the subsequent Worcester rebellion, but separated from him and was able to beat the Welsh rebels at Laugharne on July 12, 1403 . In the same year he was able to recapture Newcastle Emlyn Castle , which had been captured by Owain Glyndŵr . King Henry IV rewarded him with hunting rights in the royal forests and in 1404 with the lifelong transfer of property at St Clears . In 1407 Carew supported the heir to the throne Harry, Prince of Wales, in the unsuccessful first siege of Aberystwyth Castle .

Participation in the war in France

After the rebellion in Wales was put down, Carew returned to his estates in Devon , where he held various local offices. Among other things, he became a justice of the peace and was supposed to fight piracy in the English Channel . He is said to have brought up enemy ships together with John Hawley from Dartmouth , which bordered on piracy. As an experienced military man and seafarer, he was commissioned on February 18, 1415 during the absence of Admiral Thomas Beaufort, 1st Earl of Dorset , to secure the passage of King Henry V with his army to France. Carew took part in the campaign himself, but probably not in the Battle of Azincourt , as he was part of the Harfleur garrison under the Duke of Exeter . There he remained at least until April 1416. In January 1417 he received an annual pension of 100 marks (£ 66, 13 shillings, 4 pence) from the king from the income of the Duchy of Cornwall . When the king wanted to cross over to France again in 1417, he again instructed Carew to secure the crossing. For this purpose, Carew put together a fleet of ten ships in March 1417, including his own ship Trinité and a Venetian barracks. The crossing was successful, and in September 1417 Carew received reinforcements from the Earl of March at Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue . In June 1418 Carew took part in the siege of Louviers and between August and December 1418 in the siege of Rouen . Before May 1419 he again commanded an English fleet, but could not prevent a Castilian fleet from bringing Scottish troops to France. In the spring of 1420 he was supposed to again supervise shipping traffic in the English Channel, and in the autumn he may have participated in the siege of Melun . From February to September 1422 he was the English ambassador to Portugal, where he tried to get military support for the war against France.

The church of Luppitt where Carew wanted to be buried

Last years and death

After the death of Henry V in 1422, Carew apparently retired from active military service. In Devon he again served as a justice of the peace, raised troops and took on various other offices. In 1426 he was granted the right to marry Joan, a daughter of Sir Hugh Courtenay († before 1426). He married her to his son Nicholas . On July 16, 1429, Carew made his will in Dartmouth, in which he made donations to several churches in Devon. He died in early 1431, he wanted to be buried in the church of Luppitt near Honiton .

Although Carew was often given the courtesy title of Baro de Carew, he was never called to parliament .

Family and offspring

Before 1394 Carew had married Elizabeth Bonville († 1450/51), a daughter of Sir William Bonville († 1408). With her he had at least two daughters and a son who became his heir:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rees R. Davies: The Revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr . University Press, Oxford 1995, ISBN 0-19-285336-8 , p. 222
  2. ^ Enchanted Towy: Newcastle Emlyn. Retrieved September 16, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Carew, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carew, Sir Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English military
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 1368
DATE OF DEATH before January 27, 1431