Nicholas Carew

Family/Spouse: Joan Courtenay. Joan (daughter of Hugh Courtenay and Philippe l'Arcedekne) died before 3 Aug 1465. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Thomas Carew was born about 1427 in of Carew Castle, Pembrokeshire, Wales; died before 10 Nov 1461.

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King's knight. Constable of Narberth Castle in Pembrokeshire. Captain of Harfleur.

He was a major figure in the wars against Owen Glendower. He was present at the 1407 siege of Aberystwyth. He appears to have been active in various maritime pursuits, including the capture of shipping from Gascony, Spain, and La Rochelle. In 1422 he was ambassador on a secret mission to negotiate with the king of Portugal.

Thomas married Elizabeth Bonville before 1395. Elizabeth (daughter of William Bonville and Margaret d'Aumarle) died before 1 Nov 1452. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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King's escheator and justiciar in Ireland.

Leonard married Elizabeth Arundel. Elizabeth (daughter of Edmund Fitz Alan and Sybil Montagu) died between 29 Sep 1385 and Mar 1386. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1340, of Shute, Devon, England
• Alternate death: 14 Feb 1408

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"[A]mong the most prominent west-country gentry in the late fourteenth century, serving as MP for Devon and Somerset on ten and seven occasions respectively, and receiving a large number of local offices and commissions. He was a liveried retainer of the leading regional magnate, Edward Courtenay, earl of Devon, a close political and family bond that was destined to be violently sundered in the mid-fifteenth century." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, entry on his namesake grandson]

According to the History of Parliament: MP for Somerset, 1366; Devon, 1371, 1376, 1378, 1379, Nov 1380, 1381, May 1382, Oct 1382; Somerset Oct 1383, Apr 1384; Devon Apr 1384; Somerset Nov 1384, 1386, Feb 1388, 1393, 1395; Devon Jan 1397, Sep 1397; Somerset 1399; Devon 1402. He was also elected for Devon in Oct 1377 but was on active service overseas, so his seat was taken by Thomas Pomeroy. Not counting this last, this comes to twelve times for Devon and nine times for Somerset.

Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1 Nov 1381 - 24 Nov 1382; of Devon, 15 Nov 1389 - 7 Nov 1390.

"The Bonvilles, of French origin, established themselves in Devon shortly after the Conquest and by the end of the 14th century their wealth and standing in the county had become second only to that of the Courtenays. The antagonism between the heads of the respective families in the mid 15th century, which expressed itself on the battlefields of the Wars of the Roses and ended in the extinction of the main Bonville line, was exacerbated if not caused by jealousy of the material prosperity of the Bonvilles, for which Sir William himself was largely responsible. At his death in 1408 he was holding some 40 manors, and extensive lands and rents, in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire, providing his grandson and heir with an income sufficient to justify his elevation to the House of Lords. Such material assets led Sir William into wide fields of public service and military enterprise. In 1369 he served under the duke of Lancaster at Caux and later at Boulogne, and in October 1377 he was again absent overseas and unable to take his seat in Parliament. His military career, however, was only an interlude in a remarkably active political life: beginning in 1366, Bonville sat, either for Devon or Somerset, in 20 out of the 33 Parliaments convened in the next 36 years. His position in the West Country, if not already evident from this near monopoly, may be gauged by the frequency of his appointments to royal commissions, some of which were of major importance." [History of Parliament]

William married Margaret d'Aumarle before 1365. Margaret (daughter of William d'Aumarle and Agnes) was born about 1347 in of Woodbury, St. Thomas, Devon, England; died on 25 May 1399. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 16 May 1363

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Sheriff of Cork. King's eschator in Ireland, 1349, 1352, 1355-56. Justiciar of Ireland 1349-50.

John married Margaret de Mohun. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Edmund married Sybil Montagu before 16 Jul 1347. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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MP for Somerset, 1324.

Nicholas married Joan de Champernon. Joan (daughter of Henry de Campo Arnulphi and Joan Bodrugan) was born in of Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1362

William married Agnes. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"William Daumarle the younger's wife was named Agnes, not Ellen or Helen or Isabel as reported by various online genealogical databases." [Douglas Richardson, 1 Dec 2006, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.]

John married Joan Talbot. Joan (daughter of Richard Talbot and Sarah de Beauchamp) died after 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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He fought at the second battle of Boroughbridge, March 1322.

John married Christian de Segrave about 31 Mar 1305. Christian (daughter of John de Segrave and Christian de Plessets) died after 1332. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Steward of Scotland, 1326-1336; Justice of North Wales, 1334-1376; Sheriff of Carnarvonshire 1339-1343, 1346-1347; Admiral of the West, 1340-1341 and 1345-1347; Sheriff of Shropshire, 1345-1376; commanded the 2nd division at the battle of Crécy, 26 Aug 1346, and was at the fall of Calais, 1347; assumed the title of Earl of Surrey, 1361, upon the death of his maternal aunt, Joan, widow of John de Warenne, Earl of Surrey." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Called "Copped Hat."

A pair of memorial effigies depicting Richard Fitz Alan and his second wife Eleanor of Lancaster can be seen at Chichester Cathedral. They lie side by side, a lion at his feet and a dog at hers. In a note of tenderness that makes one wonder if the sculptor knew the couple, he has his right hand ungloved, and her right hand rests lightly upon his.

These effigies were celebrated in 1956 by Philip Larkin in his poem "An Arundel Tomb," the last lines of which are quoted on Larkin's own Poet's Corner memorial stone in Westminster Abbey.

Richard married Isabel le Despenser on 9 Feb 1321 in Havering-atte-Bower, Middlesex, England. Isabel (daughter of Hugh le Despenser and Eleanor de Clare) was born between 1312 and 1313. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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1st Earl of Salisbury. He was the leader of the party that seized Roger de Mortimer at Nottingham Castle on the night of 19 Oct 1330. He died of injuries sustained at a tournament at Windsor.

William married Katherine de Grandison before 1328. Katherine (daughter of William de Grandison and Sibyl de Tregoz) died on 23 Apr 1349. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nicholas married Hawise de Shute. Hawise died after 1304. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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According to Magna Britannia (vol. 6, pp. 430-431), she was "one of the co-heiresses of Sir Thomas Pyne", a holder of the manor of Shute, "anciently called Schete", but her specific relationship to Thomas Pyne is unstated.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Between 1271 and 1273
• Alternate birth: Abt 1274, of Ilfracombe, Barnstaple, Devon, England
• Alternate death: 1330

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Or Campernon; or Champernoun.

Knight of the shire for Devon, April 1309; for Cornwall and Devon, Aug and Nov 1311.

From Pedigrees from the Plea Rolls (citation details below):

Henry married Joan Bodrugan. Joan (daughter of Henry de Bodrugan and Sybil de Mandeville) was born before 1290; died after 1331. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1333

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• Alternate death: Between 1335 and 1336

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Sheriff of Devon, 7 Nov 1333 to 7 Oct 1335.

William married Isabel de Meriet. Isabel (daughter of John II de Meriet and Margery) was born in of Merriott, Chard, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1265, of Carew, Pembrokeshire, Wales

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Present at the siege of Caerlaverock. Summoned to Parliament by writ, 1300-01.

Nicholas married Amice Peverel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Richard's Castle, Herefordshire, England
• Alternate death: Abt 3 Sep 1306

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Governor of Cardiff Castle and town, 1297. Sheriff of Gloucestershire, 1299-1301.

Richard married Sarah de Beauchamp after 7 Jan 1269. Sarah (daughter of William de Beauchamp and Isabel Mauduit) died after Jul 1317. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was a sister of the William Beauchamp who was Earl of Warwick, not his daughter, as Jacobus (citation details below) mistakenly states.

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He fought in the wars of Gascony, Flanders, and Wales.

John married Ada de Tibetot. Ada (daughter of Robert de Tibetot and Eve de Chaworth) died before 1325. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1256, of Segrave, Leicestershire, England

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Justice of the Forest beyond Trent; King's Lieutenant (or Keeper) of Scotland.

"A knight in Aug 1282; served in Wales, 1285, in Ireland, 1287, and in Scotland in 1291 and 1297-1322. He was a principal commander at the victorious battle of Falkirk, 22 July 1298; was at the siege of Caerlaverock, July 1300, being then a knight banneret, and was captured by the Scots following the English defeat at Bannockburn, 24 June 1314 and released following a year of captivity. Appointed Warden of Scotland, 10 Mar 1309 and again, 10 Apr 1310." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

John married Christian de Plessets in 1270. Christian (daughter of Hugh de Plessets) died after 8 May 1331. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called de Plescy, de Plessy, de Plessis.

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• Alternate birth: 1 May 1285, Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire, England

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Also called Edmund Arundel. Earl of Arundel. An opponent of Gaveston, he became one of the Lords Ordainers, and one of those before whom Gaveston was tried before he was killed. Edmund Fitz Alan was also among the magnates who refused to help Edward II against Scotland, resulting in the disaster at Bannockburn. However, around the time his son Richard was betrothed to Hugh Dispenser the Younger's daughter Isabel, Fitz Alan began a rapprochement with the king. This would ultimately result in Fitz Alan's execution on the order of Roger Mortimer. According to a one account, a blunt sword was ordered, and his beheading took 22 strokes.

"Though he was never canonised, a cult emerged around the late earl in the 1390s, associating him with the 9th-century martyr king St Edmund. This veneration may have been inspired by a similar cult around his grandson, Richard Fitz Alan, 11th Earl of Arundel, who was executed by Richard II in 1397." [Wikipedia]

Just to drive home the point that association with the Despensers never works out for anybody, in 1344 his son Richard sought and obtained an anullment from his marriage to Isabel le Despenser, on the grounds that the betrothal had been inflicted on him in childhood and without his consent.

Edmund married Alice de Warenne after 30 Dec 1304. Alice (daughter of William de Warenne and Joan de Vere) died between 1330 and 23 May 1338. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: of Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England
• Alternate death: 29 Nov 1326, Hereford, Herefordshire, England

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"The Younger". Favorite of Edward II; ultimately convicted of treason. "Outside the city he was stripped and then reclothed with his arms reversed, and he was crowned with stinging nettles. Condemned to death as a traitor, on 24 November 1326 he was drawn on a hurdle to the gallows, and then hanged from a height of 50 feet. Still alive, he was cut down and eviscerated before finally being beheaded. His head was displayed on London Bridge; his quarters were sent to Bristol, Dover, York, and Newcastle. In December 1330 Eleanor de Clare received royal permission to collect her husband's bones and inter them in Tewkesbury Abbey." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Hugh married Eleanor de Clare after 14 Jun 1306 in Westminster, Middlesex, England. Eleanor (daughter of Gilbert de Clare and Joan of Acre) was born in Oct 1292 in Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales; died on 30 Jun 1337. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Bef 23 Nov 1292, Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales

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"She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, 17 Nov 1326, later released, and had her lands restored to her, 22 Apr 1328. Before 26 Jan 1329 she was abducted from Hanley Castle by Sir William la Zouche who subsequently married her. She was imprisoned again in the Tower, shortly after 5 Feb 1329, and then in Devizes Castle, until after 6 Jan 1330 as a result of accompanying her husband in his siege of her castle of Caerphilly." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Buried: Aquitaine, France
• Buried: Priory of St. Frideswide (now Christ Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

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King's yeoman, King's bachelor, Steward of the King's Household, Keeper of Abingdon Abbey 1318, Seneschal of Gascony 1318-19.

"He was sum. to Parl. 20 Nov 1317 and later." [Complete Peerage]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Between 1301 and 1304 William Montagu [...] made his mark in the Scottish wars. In 1302, described as king's yeoman, he was entrusted with the supervision of shipping for the war. In 1306, like many of his illustrious contemporaries, he was knighted along with Edward, prince of Wales. In 1314 he was keeper of Berwick. This military experience served him well, for it is as 'commander of the royal cavalry' (prefectus militie regis) in 1316, a description accorded to him by the Vita Edwardi secundi, that he first emerged as an important servant of the king (Vita Edwardi secundi, 68). In that year he played a leading part in suppressing the revolt of Llywelyn Bren (d. 1318) in Glamorgan and in settling the disputes between the townspeople of Bristol and Bartholomew Badlesmere (d. 1322), the constable of the castle there. In November 1316 he was appointed steward of the royal household. The material rewards of his stewardship included a pension of 200 marks, the absolution of his father's debts, forfeited lands in Cumberland, a quay on the Thames, and the marriage of Joan, one of the heirs of Theobald de Verdon, which he bestowed upon his younger son. He also acted as a channel of patronage for others and a number of grants were made on his information. By influencing the king and making himself a lynchpin in the relationships which bound Edward II to his courtier supporters Montagu developed the importance of the stewardship, which after his death became an important focus of contention among the rival magnates and the particular object of the earl of Lancaster's ambitions.

Montagu was relieved of the stewardship on 16 November 1318 and replaced by Badlesmere. This was almost certainly a concession to Thomas of Lancaster who had accused Montagu of combining with Roger Damory to plot against his life, a factor which delayed his reconciliation with the king. Lancaster's deep suspicion of Montagu is one of the clearest signs that the courtiers around Edward II were his ardent supporters, rather than a 'middle party' as was once thought. On 20 November Montagu was appointed seneschal of Gascony and Aquitaine and governor of the Île d'Oléron. Although prestigious, this appointment was an effective demotion since it withdrew him from the centre of affairs, so reducing his influence over the king. [...] The permanent loss of his forceful presence and military experience disadvantaged the king in the troubled years which followed.

William married Elizabeth de Montfort after 20 Jun 1292. Elizabeth (daughter of Peter de Montfort and Maud de la Mare) was born in of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, England; died on 16 Aug 1354; was buried in Priory of St. Frideswide (now Christ Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 19 Aug 1354
• Alternate death: 29 Aug 1354

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Also called Alice. Called Elizabeth in her IPM.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1243, of Ashperton, Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
• Alternate death: 17 Jun 1335

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1st Baron Grandison 1299?1335, Knight, Deputy Justiciar of North Wales 1284?1293, Deputy Warden of the Channel Islands 1294?1296.

He served in the household of Edmund "Crouchback", Earl of Lancaster. He fought in the Scottish wars and was at the seige of Caerlaverock. He was an executor of Edmund's will and of that of his widow Blanche of Artois.

Summoned to Parliament by writs dated from 6 Feb 1299 to 10 Oct 1325.

William married Sibyl de Tregoz before 1286. Sibyl (daughter of John de Tregoz and Mabel Fitzwarine) was born about 1272; died on 21 Oct 1334 in Dore, Herefordshire, England; was buried in Dore Abbey, Herefordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: 22 Oct 1334
• Alternate death: 27 Oct 1334

William married Joan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 21 Feb 1305
• Alternate death: Between 1319 and 1320

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Knight of the shire for Cornwall, Nov 1295; and for Devon, May 1298.

William married Joan de Ferrers. Joan (daughter of William de Ferrers and Matilda) was born in of Bere Ferrers, Tavistock, Devon, England; died after Nov 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1262 and 1265
• Alternate birth: 1263, Bodrugan, Cornwall, England
• Alternate death: Between 29 Oct 1308 and 23 Jan 1309
• Alternate death: Jan 1309

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"It should be noted that the Register of Walter Bronescombe calls him son and heir of Philip de Bodrugan; this is clearly an error and should properly be grandson and heir." [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.]

From The Complete Peerage II:199:

Henry Bodrigan was sum. to Parl.. 26 Oct 1309, by a writ directed 'Henrico de Bodrigan', but he had been dead 9 months when the writ issued (a). [...]

He m., before 26 Oct 1288, Sibyl, widow of Piers le Power, sister and heir of Walter de Mandeville. She, who was then aged over 24, was living 18 July 1304, but d. in or before 1308. He had livery of her lands and of those of his uncle, William Bodrigan, in 1308. He d. Jan 1308/9. Writ for IPM, 23 Jan, 2 Edw. II. None of his descendants were sum. to Parl.

(a) Although the House of Lords has been very liberal in conferring peerages on gentlemen living about this time, who would have been much surprised to learn that they enjoyed that honour, yet the House has never yet held that a summons to a dead man created an hereditary Barony descendible to heirs general.

Henry married Sybil de Mandeville before 26 Oct 1288. Sybil (daughter of (Unknown) de Mandeville and Alice Giffard) was born on 29 Sep 1264; died before 1309. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Bef 23 Jan 1309

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"Sybil was a lady of the Queen's chamber in the retinue of Eleanor of Castile, but whether she held this position before or after the death of her first husband is not certain. She perhaps became known to the queen as her family held one half of Eltham, while the other half was royal demesne and the site of the royal palace at Eltham. In 1270, Henry III 'kept a public Christmas at his palace of Eltham, being accompanied by the Queen, and all the great men of the realm.' Sybil is frequently found in the household records of the Queen Eleanor beginning in February 1286, though an earlier connection to the Queen may be indicated by her marriage to Peter Le Poer. [...] Sybil married Henry de Bodrugan sometime before the IPM of her brother Walter de Mandville was taken on 6 November 1288. Henry de Bodrugan was in the expedition to Gascony in 1286 with King Edward, which was also accompanied by Queen Eleanor and a large number of the royal household. It is possible that it was while traveling with the king and queen that the match with Sybil was made. Queen Eleanor was well known for matchmatching of cousins and women of the queen's household to well landed English nobles. It is also possible that the Bodrugans' strong religious connections played a roll (marrying the niece of two powerful bishops to a major benefactor of Glasney College and the brother of the archdeacon of Cornwall). The first child of Sybil and Henry was born 6 January 1290 at Bodrugan, co. Cornwall. It may be that Sybil remained in the household of Queen Eleanor for a time after her second marriage as Sybil's children were still with the queen's children in 1289-90. Eleanor died in November 1290 and her will includes a bequest 'to Sybil, wife of Henry de Boderingeham, of the marriage of John le Power, son and heir of Peter le Power, tenant in chief, her former husband.'" [Joe Cochoit, 26 Apr 2011, citation details below.]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate death: Abt 1321

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Also called Galfrid Daumarl.

Geoffrey married Joan de Pomeroy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margery. Margery died after 1328. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]