475348. Baron Nicholas Carew & 475349.
Margaret Dinham
1444, Nicholas born in Devon, England, heir & s/o 950696. Thomas Carew & 950697. Joan
Carminow.
~1445, Margaret born in England, eldest d/o 950698. John Dinham & 950699. Joan
Arches.
1461, Nicholas’ father died.
2/1/1461, Deed of sale. Nicholas
Carreu esq. to Thomas Leman of
Wallington, husbandman. A grove of wood called 'Hateley Busshue' to enclose at
his own cost. (S) UKNA.
6/28/1461, Edward IV, age 19, succeeded Henry VI as King of
England. [War of the Roses.]
10/26/1461, Nicholas contracted to marry Margaret.
2/1/1462, Nicholas’ marriage granted to Joan Dynam, mother
of Margaret. (S) CPRs, 9/23/1465.
8/1465, Nicholas of Mohuns Ottery, Esq. “of age”. [Devon.]
9/23/1465, Licence for Nicholas Carrewe, son and heir of
Thomas Carrewe, esquire, deceased, tenant in chief, and kinsman and heir of
Nicholas Carrewe, knight, and Joan his wife, tenants in chief, deceased, viz.
son of the said Thomas their son, to enter freely without proof of age or
livery out of the king’s hands with all lordships, manors ... because the king
has been satisfied of his marriage by Joan Dynam, widow to whom it was granted
on 2/1/1462, by letters patent, and because he is of full age as was found by
inquisition at Bukyngton Loges, co. Devon ; saving to the king his homage and
fealty, and saving the dower of Joan late the wife of the said Thomas Carrewe.
(S) CPRs.
1470, Nicholas, Baron Carew of Mullesford, High Sheriff of
Devon. [The castle overlooks the Carew Inlet, and had been in the Carew family
since the 1100s.]
9/1469-9/1470, Nicholas Carrewe esquire, sheriff of Devon
was to render account of revenues from Devon from Michaelmas 1469 to Michaelmas
1470. (S) UKNA. [Apparently Nicholas was unable to render the account.]
12/6/1470, Nicholas, of Devon, died. (S) UKNA.
12/13/1470, Margaret died; both buried in St. Nicholas’
Chapel, Westminster Abbey. (S) Ancient Sepuchral Effigies, Rogers, 1877, P63.
(S) Magna Carta Ancestry, P171. (S) The Baronetage of
England, 1776, Wotton, P220.
Family notes:
·
1501, Margaret coheir of her brother, John, Lord
Dinham, of Nutwell, Devon, lord high-treasurer of England.
·
Epitaph: “Orate pro animabus Nicholai Baronis
quondam de Carew et Domince Margaritae uxoris ejus filiae Johannis Domini
Dinham, militis ; qui quidem Nicholaus obitt sexto die menis Decembris anno
dom. 1470. Et praedicta Domina Margareta obiit 13 die mensis Decebmris, anno
1470.” (S) Ancient Sepuchral Effigies, Rogers, 1877, P63.
Children of
Nicholas and Margaret:
i. Edmund Carew (237674), born 1464 in Devon, England.
ii. Jane Carew, born ? in England.
Jane married 19488. Robert Cary.
