Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

M, #14574, b. 1560, d. 12 April 1639

Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and family

(l-r): son Henry, wife Elizabeth, Robert, daughter Philadelphia and son Thomas 1 Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth was born in 1560.3 He was the son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon of Hunsdon and Ann Morgan.2 He married Elizabeth Trevannion, daughter of Sir Hugh Trevannion and Sybilla Morgan, on 20 August 1593 at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England. He died on 12 April 1639.2

    Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth held the office of Chamberlain of the Household, of Charles, Prince of Wales.4 He was created 1st Baron Carey of Leppington, co. York [England] on 6 February 1621/22.4 He was created 1st Earl of Monmouth [England] on 5 February 1625/26.4

Children of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and Elizabeth Trevannion

1.Hon. Thomas Carey+

2.Lady Philadelphia Carey+

3.Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth+ b. 27 Jan 1595/96, d. 1661

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Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth

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Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth (c.1560 – 12 April 1639), youngest son of Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (chamberlain and first cousin of Queen Elizabeth I) and Anne, daughter of Sir Thomas Morgan, of Arkestone in Herefordshire, was born about the year 1560.

As a young man he accompanied several diplomatic missions abroad and took part in military expeditions. In 1587 he joined in the attempt to relieve Sluys, in 1588 served as a volunteer against the Spanish Armada, and commanded a regiment in the Earl of Essex's expedition to Normandy in support of the Protestant Henry IV of France in 1591, taking part in the siege of Rouen. He was knighted by Essex the same year for having by his intercession with the queen procured his recall.

In the parliaments of 1586 and 1588 he represented Morpeth; in that of 1593, Callington; and in those of 1596 and 1601, Northumberland. From 1593 till the end of Elizabeth's reign he occupied various posts in the government of the Scottish borders, succeeding to his father's appointment of Lord Warden of the Marches in 1596, which he held till February 1598.

This was some of the most important work of his life, and he was largely responsible for easing the troubles and the depredations of the Border Reivers. His conflict with the Scottish fyrebrande Robert Kerr was only settled after great skill and tact on Carey's part.

In March 1603 he visited the court, and witnessed Queen Elizabeth I's last illness, which he described in his memoirs. Anxious to recommend himself to her successor James I, and disobeying the orders of the council, he started on horseback immediately after the queen's death on the morning of 24 March 1603, in order to be the first to communicate the tidings to James, arrived at Holyrood late on 26 March, and was appointed by the king a gentleman of the bedchamber. But his conduct met with general and merited censure as "contrary to all decency, good manners and respect," and on James's arrival in England he was dismissed from his new post. On 23 February 1605, however, he was made governor of Prince Charles, in 1611 his master of the robes, in 1617 his chamberlain, and on 6 February 1622, he was created Baron Carey of Leppington. In 1623 he followed Charles in his visit to Philip IV of Spain. Following Charles' succession to the throne he was created earl of Monmouth in 1626.

He died on 12 April 1639. His eldest son Henry Carey, 2nd Earl of Monmouth (1596–1661) succeeded him, and on his death without surviving male issue the peerage became extinct.

His Memoirs were published first by John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork in 1759. A second edition, annotated by Sir Walter Scott, was printed in 1808.

A new edition was published in 2005, ISBN 1-904466-29-X. The Stirring World of Robert Carey: Robert Carey's Memoirs 1577-1625.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

Honorary titles

Preceded by

The Lord Eure Custos Rotulorum of Northumberland

1598– bef. 1605 Succeeded by

Lord Edward Talbot

Parliament of England (to 1707)

Preceded by

Unknown Member for Grampound

with John Hampden

1621–1624 Succeeded by

John Mohun

Sir Richard Edgecombe

Peerage of England

Preceded by

New Creation Baron Carey

1622–1639 Succeeded by

Henry Carey

Earl of Monmouth

1626–1639