William
Carey
aka Cary
Born about in Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Son of Thomas Cary
and Margaret (Spencer) Cary
Husband of
Mary (Boleyn) Stafford
— married
4 Feb 1521 in Greenwich, Kent, England
Descendants 
Father of
Catherine (Carey) Knollys and Henry Carey KG
Died
at about age 37
in England
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Biography
William Cary was probably born at Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire in about 1491, to Thomas Cary and Margaret (Spencer) Cary. [1]
William was introduced to the court of Henry VIII in about 1519, by his kinsman the Earl of Devon, Henry Courtenay. He was first noted in the court records on 16 Feb 1619 playing tennis on the king's tennis court at Richmond. [2] By the following June he had become a part of the royal household and was granted an annuity of 50 marks with a "livery" for daily breakfast at the king's table.
In June 1520, he was recorded as a squire of the body in attendance upon the king at Calais for the Field of the Cloth of Gold. [3]
In 1525 he was promoted to a "Gentleman of the Privy Chamber" to King Henry VIII. This position brought him powerful patronages, wardships and the custody of royal manors and parks in Essex and Buckinghamshire. [4] He was chief steward and keeper of Newhall, Writtell, Wansted, Ditton, and Beaulieu, and constable of Pleshy.
Marriage
William married Mary Boleyn on 04 Feb 1520/21 at the Chapel Royal, Greenwich. The King attended their wedding and made an offering of 6s 8d upon the altar. [5]
Children
- Catherine Carey b: c. 1524 d.15 Jan 1568 m. Sir Francis Knollys
- Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon b: 04 Mar 1526 d:23 Jul 1596
There is a widespread, though unconfirmed, belief that these two children were illegitimate offspring of Henry VIII. Certainly Mary Boleyn was for a time the mistress of King Henry, but the dates and duration of their liaison have never been reliably established. Although the two children were given honoured places at court, they were never acknowledged as illegitimate children, as was Henry Fitzroy, for instance.
Death
William died of sweating sickness on 22 Jun 1528 at the age of about 30. An Inquisition Post Mortem on his estates was held on November 3, 1528, which named his son Henry as heir.[6] The IPM described him as being 'armiger de corpore Regis'
Research Notes
There is no evidence that William Carey was ever lord of the manor of Aldenham, nor is there any record of him owning or residing in a house in the village, or ever living there. There is in fact no mention of any Carey living there before 1589. The likelihood is that William and Mary resided at court during their marriage.
It doesn't appear that William was ever knighted, and was generally referred to in court documents as Mr William Carey.
Sources
- ↑ Vivian, J. L. (John Lambrick)., College of Arms (Great Britain). (1895). The visitations of the county of Devon: Comprising the herald's visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620. Exeter: For the author, by H. S. Eland.
- ↑ Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : Priv. print., The De Vinne Press 1920 pg. 313 Internet Archive
- ↑ Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : Priv. print., The De Vinne Press 1920 pg. 314 Internet Archive
- ↑ Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : Priv. print., The De Vinne Press 1920 pg. 322 Internet Archive
- ↑ Marriage: Harrison, Fairfax, 1869-1938 The Devon Carys New York : Priv. print., The De Vinne Press 1920 pg. 318 Internet Archive The evidence for the date of the wedding is the following entry in Henry VIII's Household Book for January 31, 1520 [O. S.] : "Item for the King's offering upon Saturday at the marriage of M. Care and Mare Bullayn, vi s. viii d." See Madden, Register of the Privy Purse Expenses of Mary Tudor as Princess, 1831, Appendix, 282; and L. and P., iii, p. 1539.
- ↑ The Genealogist Vol 12 1884, Abstracts of Inquisitions Post Mortem Henry VIII Internet Archive
- See Also:
- Michael Riordan. Carey, William (c. 1496–1528)". Printed by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Published 23 September 2004. oxforddnb.com. Accessed 16 Jan 2021.
- "Royal Ancestry" 2013 by Douglas Richardson Vol. II. p. 57'
- Hoskins, Anthony Mary Boleyn's Carey children - offspring of King Henry VIII? in Genealogists' Magazine (London), volume 25, number 9, pages 345-352 (March 1997)
- William Carey
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Categories: Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire | Field of the Cloth of Gold
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(updated) There are several generations of duplicates, beginning with William. In the (higher numbered) series all of the dates are estimated. If you look at Margaret Cave ... Her dates are "about 1470 - about 1500" in the date fields; then in the body of the biography her father's dates are "about 1503-April 2, 1568". I suspect the estimated dates are just way off. In fact the biography for both Cave-547 and Cave-300 were both cut and pasted from the same source.