Sir Edmund Carew, Kt.

Primary Sources

The will of Sir William Huddesfield, dated 14 June 1497 and proved 6 July 1499, mentions his daughter and son-in-law, Lady Katherine and Sir Edmund Carew, and their children, John, Charles, Thomas, and William Carew.

Other Sources

• Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew1,2,3,4,5,6
• M, #67886, b. circa 1464, d. 24 June 1513
• Father Nicholas Carew, Esq., Baron Carew, Sheriff of Devonshire7,1,9,4 b. c 1444, d. c 21 Nov 1470
• Mother Margaret Dinham7,8,1,9,4 b. c 1440, d. 13 Dec 1471
• Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew was born circa 1464 at of Mohun Ottery, Devonshire, England; Age 6 in 1470, age 40 in 1501.1,2,4 A settlement for the marriage Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew and Katherine Huddersfield was made on 26 December 1478.2,4 Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew married Katherine Huddersfield, daughter of Sir William Huddersfield, Recorder of Exeter, Attorney General to Kings Edward IV & Henry VII, Justice of the Peace for Devonshire and Elizabeth Bozom, before 16 January 1479; They had 4 sons (Sir William; Thomas; George, Dean of Bristol, Exeter, & St. George's Chapel, Windsor; & Sir Gawen) and 4 daughters (Katherine, wife of Sir Philip Champernoun; Dorothy, wife of John Stowell, & of Sir Hugh Pollard; Anne (nun); & Isabel (nun)).1,2,3,4,5 Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew died on 24 June 1513 at Siege of Thérouanne, Thérouanne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; Slain by a cannon ball as he sat in council.1,2,4
• Family Katherine Huddersfield b. c 1462, d. a 9 Jun 1528
• Children
  • Sir William Carew+10,2,4 b. c 1483
  • Katherine Carew+11,12,2,3,4,5,6 b. c 1488, d. a 5 Feb 1546
• Citations
• 1.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 185.
• 2.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 403-404.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 60.
• 4.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 100.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 436-437.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 57-58.
• 7.[S11579] A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. I, by John Burke, Esq.,, p. 557, notes.
• 8.[S11568] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, by George Edward Cokayne, Vol. IV, p. 381.
• 9.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 403.
• 10.[S61] Unknown author, Family Group Sheets, Family History Archives, SLC.
• 11.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 185-186.
• 12.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 265.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p2259.htm#... _____________
• Edmund CAREW (Sir)
• Born: 1466
• Died: 24 Jun 1513, Thorounne
• Notes: 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.
• Father: Nicholas CAREW (Sir)
• Mother: Margery DYNHAM
• Married: Catherine HUDDESFIELD (d. 1499) (dau. of Sir William Hudsfield Kt., attorney general to Edward IV)
• Children:
  • 1. Thomas CAREW of Bickley (Sir)
  • 2. William CAREW (Sir)
  • 3. Anne CAREW
  • 4. Dorothy CAREW
  • 5. George CAREW (Sir)
  • 6. Isabelle CAREW
  • 7. Gawen CAREW (Sir)
  • 8. Catherine CAREW
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CAREW1.htm#Edmund CAREW (Sir)1 ______________
• Edmund Carew1
• M, #203535, b. 1464
• Last Edited=14 Aug 2006
• Edmund Carew was born in 1464.1 He was the son of John Carew and Margaret Dinham.2
• 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).1 He was a great-grandfather of Sir Walter Ralegh.1 During his minority Carew Castle was first mortgaged to then foreclosed on by Rhys ap Thomas.1
• Citations
• 1.[S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 682. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• 2.[S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p20354.htm#i203535 ________________
• CAREW, Sir Gawain (c.1503-85), of Exeter and Wood, Devon and of London.
• b. 1503, 4th s. of Sir Edmund Carew of Mohun’s Ottery, Devon by Catherine, da. and coh. of Sir William Huddesfield of Shillingford, Devon. m. (1) lic. 28 Jan. 1531, Anne, da. of Sir William Brandon, wid. of Sir John Shilston† of Wood and of Southwark, Surr., s.p.; (2) by July 1540, Mary, da. of Sir Robert Wotton of Boughton Malherbe, Kent, wid. of Sir Henry Guildford† of Leeds Castle, Kent and Blackfriars, London, s.p.; (3) by Dec. 1565, Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Norwiche, s.p. Kntd. 1545.
• From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/ca... _______________
• George Carew (1497/8–1583) was an English churchman who became Dean of Exeter.
• He was the third son of Sir Edmund Carew. He graduated B.A. at Broadgates Hall, Oxford in 1522.
• Carew was archdeacon of Totnes from 1534 to 1549, becoming canon of Exeter in 1535 and precentor of Exeter in 1549, and was archdeacon of Exeter from 1556 to 1569. He was dean of Bristol from 5 November 1552, but he was ejected in 1553 under Mary I. He resumed the post on the accession of Elizabeth I, and filled it until 1571. He was also dean of Christ Church, Oxford from 1559 to 1661, dean and canon of Windsor from 1560 to 1577 and dean of Exeter in 1571 to 1583. [1]
• He died on 1 June 1583, and was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.[1]
• He married Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas Harvey. George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes was a younger son.[1]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carew_(priest) ______________
• John Dynham, 1st Baron Dynham (c. 1433–1501) was an English peer and politician. He was the Lord High Treasurer of England, Lord Chancellor of Ireland and Baron Dynham. He was the owner ....
• He was born at Nutwell in the parish of Woodbury in East Devon, eldest son and heir of Sir John IV Dynham (1406-1458) by his wife Joan Arches (d.1497), sister ....
• His estates descended to the heirs of his four surviving sisters (a fifth sister, Edith, appears to have predeceased him, leaving no issue issue):[14]
• Margery Dinham, eldest sister, who married Sir Edmund Carew (d. 24 June 1513), son and heir of Sir John Carew of Mohun's Ottery and Monkton, Devon.[15] ....
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dynham,_1st_Baron_Dynham ______________

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.

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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.

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