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Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameThomas Carew Lord of Carew 
[54, His own co-article], [76, Carew article, p. 68]
[54, His own co-article], [76, Carew article, p. 68]Birth1368
Death1430
GeneralSoldier
FatherSir Leonard Carew Lord of Carew (1342-1370)
MotherElizabeth FitzAlan (-ca1386)
DNB Main notes for Thomas Carew Lord of Carew
Co-subject (to his grandfather John): Carew, [Sir] Thomas
Dates: d. 1431
Active Date: 1411
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Military
Occupation: Soldier in the service of Henry IV and Henry V
This Thomas, baron Carew, must have been a minor at the time of his father's death (Irish Rolls, 866), and it is not till the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V that he begins to figure prominently as a statesman and a soldier. His mother is said to have been Alice, daughter of Sir Edmond Fitzalan (Phillips and Maclean). According to Prince he was present at the battle of Agincourt, but his name not to be found in the `Roll' published by Sir Harris Nicolas. The same authority tells us that he was made captain of Harfleur, and appointed to defend a passage over the Seine in 6 Henry V. He is probably to be identified with the Baron Carew who was commissioned to guard the Channel at the time of the Emperor Sigismund's visit to England (Williams, Gesta Henrici V, 93 n.), and with the `Thomas Carew, Chevalier,' who is found at the head of a large number of men-at-arms in 1417, 1418, and 1423 (Privy Council Acts, ii. and iii.; Norman Rolls). He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Bonvile of Shute (Prince), and appears to have died in 1430-1 (C.I.P.M. iv. 131). By her he left a son Nicholas, baron Carew, father of Sir Edmund Carew [q.v.], whose younger sons founded the families of Carew at Haccombe and Antony (Phillips). Besides their English estates, the Carews held large landed possessions in Ireland, especially the barony of Idrone in Carlow; but these appear to have been lost for the most part in the course of the fourteenth century.
Dates: d. 1431
Active Date: 1411
Gender: Male
Field of Interest: Military
Occupation: Soldier in the service of Henry IV and Henry V
This Thomas, baron Carew, must have been a minor at the time of his father's death (Irish Rolls, 866), and it is not till the reigns of Henry IV and Henry V that he begins to figure prominently as a statesman and a soldier. His mother is said to have been Alice, daughter of Sir Edmond Fitzalan (Phillips and Maclean). According to Prince he was present at the battle of Agincourt, but his name not to be found in the `Roll' published by Sir Harris Nicolas. The same authority tells us that he was made captain of Harfleur, and appointed to defend a passage over the Seine in 6 Henry V. He is probably to be identified with the Baron Carew who was commissioned to guard the Channel at the time of the Emperor Sigismund's visit to England (Williams, Gesta Henrici V, 93 n.), and with the `Thomas Carew, Chevalier,' who is found at the head of a large number of men-at-arms in 1417, 1418, and 1423 (Privy Council Acts, ii. and iii.; Norman Rolls). He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Bonvile of Shute (Prince), and appears to have died in 1430-1 (C.I.P.M. iv. 131). By her he left a son Nicholas, baron Carew, father of Sir Edmund Carew [q.v.], whose younger sons founded the families of Carew at Haccombe and Antony (Phillips). Besides their English estates, the Carews held large landed possessions in Ireland, especially the barony of Idrone in Carlow; but these appear to have been lost for the most part in the course of the fourteenth century.