Peter Carew (died 1580)
.JPG)
.JPG)
Sir Peter Carew (died 1580) was an English soldier who was slain at the Battle of Glenmalure in Ireland. He was a member of a prominent Devonshire gentry family and should be distinguished from his first cousin Sir Peter Carew (c.1514-1575) of Mohuns Ottery, Luppitt, Devon.
Origins
Peter Carew was the eldest son of George Carew (1497/8–1583), Dean of Windsor, Dean of Exeter and Archdeacon of Totnes, third son of Sir Edmund Carew, Baron Carew, of Mohuns Ottery in the parish of Luppitt, Devon, by his wife Catharine Huddesfield, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Huddesfield (died 1499) of Shillingford St George in Devon, Attorney-General to Kings Edward IV (1461-1483)[1] and Henry VII (1485–1509).[2] His younger brother was George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes (1555-1629) and his sister was Mary Carew (d. 1604), the wife of Walter II Dowrich of Dowrich in the parish of Sandford near Crediton in Devon. Mary Carew's monumental brass survives in Sandford Church.
Career
Carew inherited from his senior cousin, Sir Peter Carew (c.1514-1575) of Mohuns Ottery, the Irish territorial barony of Odrone, representing about 6,360 acres.[3]
Marriage
Carew married Awdrye Gardiner, a daughter of William Gardiner of Fulmer in Buckinghamshire. She survived her husband and remarried to Sir Edmund Verney[4] (1535-1599) of Pendley in the parish of Tring, Hertfordshire,[5] Sheriff of Buckinghamshire and Sheriff of Hertfordshire.[6]
Monument in Exeter Cathedral
An extravagant two-tiered architectural monument dated 1589, restored in 1857, survives in the Chapel of St John the Evangelist in Exeter Cathedral. On the bottom tier is an effigy of Sir Peter Carew (d. 1580), notable for being an early "fake antique"[7] as he is shown cross-legged in imitation of a 13th century effigy in this style which is supposed to represent a crusader, of which three genuine examples survive in the cathedral, namely Henry de Raleigh (d. 1301), Humphrey de Bohun and Richard Stapledon (d. 1326). He holds above his chest a 13th century "heater-shaped" shield displaying the Carew arms. On the top tier is an effigy of his uncle, Sir Gawen Carew (d. 1585), straight-legged and dressed in contemporary armour, next to his second wife, Mary Wotton of Kent, widow of Sir Henry Guildford KG (1489–1532), Master of the Horse and Comptroller of the Household to King Henry VIII. Sir Gawen Carew's first wife had been Anne Brandon, a sister of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, a favourite of King Henry VIII. It displays much strapwork decoration and heraldry, showing on its sides 357 coats of arms representing 57 families.[8] On three sides of the cornice is inscribed: "Walter Dowrich of Dowrich Esq., married the only sister of this Sir Peter Carew, Knyght, under figured, elder brother to the Lord Carew of Clopton which Sir Peter Carew, Knyght, was slayne in Ireland".[9]
References
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.246
- ^ Vivian, p.135
- ^ Hooker, John, The Life and Times of Sir Peter Carew: Kt., (from the Original Manuscript), p. 254, footnote[1]
- ^ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.135, pedigree of Carew
- ^ "VERNEY". tudorplace.com.ar. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ Burke, Bernard, "Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire", London, 1866, p.554 [2]
- ^ Erskine, Audrey; Hope, Vyvyan & Lloyd, John, Exeter Cathedral: A Short History and Description, Exeter, 1988, p.106
- ^ Erskine, et al
- ^ Jenkins, Alexander, "Civil and Ecclesiastical History of the City of Exeter", 2nd Edition, Exeter, 1841, p.301 (mutilated condition in 1841, now restored, restored text added)[3]