Sir
Nicholas
"Baron Carew"
Carew
Born about in Moulsford,Berkshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas Carew
and Elizabeth (Bonville) Carew
Brother of
Elizabeth (Carew) Tremayne
Husband of
Joan (Courtenay) de Vere
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at about age 39
[location unknown]
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Biography
Sir Nicholas Carew was born about 1408.[1] He was the son of Thomas Carew[1] & his wife Elizabeth Bonville of Shute.[2]. He m. Joan Courtenay, daughter of Hugh Courtenay, Knt., of Goodrington, by his 3rd wife Philippe l'Arcedekne (or l'Arcedeaken), daughter and co-heiress of Sir Warin and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Talbot,[3][2][4] was born about 1411 or 1414 - "aged 4 in 1418, aged 14 in March 1425" (sister Elizabeth was b 1413).[5]
They had five sons and three daughters:[5]
- Thomas, Esq. (Baron Carew), b. 1427 d. Oct 1461, married Joan Carminow[5]
- Nicholas d. 13 Sep 1469, ancestor of the Carew Baronets,[5]
- Hugh d. 1470 [5]
- Alexander d. 1492, from whom came Richard Carew the antiquary and the family of Pole-Carew[5]
- Sir William, d. 1501, the ancestor of the present owner of Carew[5]
- Jane, married ___ Talbot[5]
- Elizabeth, married John Challons[5]
- Florence (nun)[5]
He died on 3 May 1447.[6] His heir was his son Thomas.[6]
Baron of Carew
The Baron of Carew was held by the service of five knights fees of the Earl of Pembroke, and twelve fees were held by the barony by military service. [7]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/23-526/ [Accessed: 30/11/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for Thomas Carewe, chevalier 1431
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Joan Courtenay's entry in #MedLands
- ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol II, p 333-334 COURTENAY #9
- ↑ Joan is daughter of Hugh by the daughter of Warin & his wife Elizabeth Talbot of Richard’s Castle, Herefordshire, according to both MedLands (#_Vere) and #Richardson, but Richardson has Philippe as Hugh's 3rd wife and MedLands has of "Philippa Arcedekne" as his second wife.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 5.9 Royal Ancestry Vol II, pp 98-99 CAREW #15; #Richardson
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 King's College London, 2014. | Mapping the Medieval Countryside [online]. Available at http://www.inquisitionspostmortem.ac.uk/view/inquisition/26-579/ [Accessed: 29/11/2020] Inquisitions Post Mortem for Nicholas Carrewe, knight 1447
- ↑ Old Pembroke Families in the ancient county palatine of Pembroke, p. 18
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[CPR HVI] 8 May 1431 Westminster. Nicholas Carrewe, knight, staying in England, has letters nominating his attorneys, named, in Ireland for one year.
[CPR HVI] 22 July 1432 Westminster. Commission to Nicholas, baron of Carrewe, William Boneville, knight, John Johnham, knight, and 4 others, and the sheriffs of Devon and Cornwall and two or more of them, to hold inquests as to the malefactos who seised 31 tuns and 1 pipe of wine of John Mareschal of Brittany . The commissioners are to discover what has become of the wine etc.
[CPR HVI] 4 February 1440 Reading. Grant for life to Nicholas, baron of Carowe, of the 6 bucks and 6 does yearly out of Rachiche forest, county Somerset, in lieu of a like grant to Thomas Beauchamp, knight, by Henry IV, surrendered, with this intent; by view of the master forester or his lieutenant or of the verderers.
[CCR HVI] 16 February 1446 Westminster. Memorandum of a mainprise under a pain of 100 marks, made in chancery 29 January by Thomas Kiryell of Kent knight and Hugh Champernoun of Adston co. Devon esquire for Nicholas Carrewe baron Carrewe, and of an undertaking by him under a pain of 200 marks, that he shall appear there in person one month after Michaelmas next to answer touching what shall be laid against him, and meantime shall do or procure no hurt or harm to Eleanor who was wife of Walter Lucy knight or any of the people.
[CFR HVI] 11 May 1447 Westminster. Writ of diem clausit extremum to the escheator of Devon and Cornwall after the death of Nicholas Carrewe, knight. Further writs sent to the escheator of Somerset 16 May, and escheator of Hereford and the adjacent march of Wales 20 October 1447.