Supported Henry Tudor and was knighted by him at Bosworth as was Rhys ap Thomas. Sir Edmund died heavily in debt in 1513 while fighting in France. He was buried at Calais. His heirs were unable to keep up the mortgage payments and Carew castle was lost. It eventually became a crown possession, and was regained by the Carews about 100 years later. -------------------- He was a great-grandfather of Sir Walter Ralegh. He was an ancestor of the Carews of Mohun's Ottery (extinct by 1575), Carews of Bickleigh Castle (male line expired 1681) and George Carew, 1st and last Earl of Totnes (extinct 1629). During his minority Carew Castle was first mortgaged to then foreclosed on by Rhys ap Thomas.