Henry Carey, 1º Baron Hunsdon b. Abt 1524 d. 23 Jul 1596 Somerset House: If the Legends Are True...

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Suffix 1º Baron Hunsdon

Birth Abt 1524 [5]

Gender Male

Alt. Birth 4 Mar 1526 [3, 4]

Acceded 1561 [3]

Knight of the Garter

Biographical was raised to the peerage as Baron Hunsdon and followed a military career [4]

Military Service 1569 [4]

playing a leading part in suppresing the Northern Rising

He was rewarded with a personal note of thanks from his sovereign lady, signed 'Your loving kinswoman, Elizabeth R.'

Name Henry Cary [6]

Died 23 Jul 1596 Somerset House [2, 3]

Buried 12 Aug 1596 Westminster Abbey, London, England [3]

Person ID I4662 If the Legends Are True...

Last Modified 01 Jan 2010

Father King Henry VIII of England, b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace , d. 28 Jan 1547, Whitehall, , Orkney Islands, Scotland

Mother Mary Boleyn, b. Abt 1500-1504, Hever Castle , d. 19 Jul 1543

Alt. Marriage 1519-1521

Family ID F2733 Group Sheet

Family Anne Morgan, d. 19 Jan 1606/07

Married 21 May 1545 [7]

Children

>	1. George Carey, 2º Baron Hunsdon, b. 1547, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 8 Sep 1603, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England
	2. Honorable Henry Carey, d. Yes, date unknown
	3. Honorable Catherine Carey, b. 1549, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 25 Feb 1602/03, Arundel House, London
	4. Honorable Thomas Carey, d. Yes, date unknown
	5. Honorable Thomas Carey, d. Yes, date unknown
	6. Honorable William Carey, d. Yes, date unknown
	7. Honorable Margaret Carey, b. 1553, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. Yes, date unknown
	8. Honorable Carey, d. Yes, date unknown
	9. John Carey, 3º Lord Hunsdon, b. 1555, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. Apr 1617, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England
	10. Honorable Sir Edmund Carey, b. 1557, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 12 Sep 1637, Culham, Oxfordshire
	11. Robert Carey, 1º Earl of Monmouth, b. Abt 1560, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 12 Apr 1639, Moor Park, Hertsfordshire
>	12. Honorable Philadelphia Carey, b. 1563, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England , d. 3 Feb 1626/27, Bolton, Lancashire, England

Last Modified 04 Jun 2009

Family ID F1702 Group Sheet

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Buried - 12 Aug 1596 - Westminster Abbey, London, England

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Carey → Henry 1º Baron Hunsdon

Notes	John Hale, vicar of Isleworth, was accused of having denied the King's supremacy and, on 20 April 1535, stated to the Council that he had seen the nine-year-old Henry Carey, the king's son. He would have know the sentence for denying the King's supremary and on 4 May 1535, just two weeks later was executed at Tyburn. Henry VIII kept the existence of an illegitimate child a secret until acknowledgment might suit him. Henry Fitzroy was born in 1519 but there is no record of his existence until the king ennobled him in 1525. The facts of the doubly adulterous births of Henry VIII's children by Mary Boleyn, had they been acknowledged, would surely later have had manifold catastrophic effects. Most important of all: Henry VIII's legitimacy as King and Defender of the Faith would have been at least seriously compromised, very possibly destroyed. The Boleyn family had been in disgrace since 1536 but Henry Carey's sister, Catherine, in 1539, became a maid of honour to Anne of Cleves. At the time of Henry Carey's marriage, in May 1545, he was in Henry VIII's household. Catherine and Henry Carey were, with the Princess Elizabeth, the nearest kin of the disgraced Queen Anne Boleyn, but it is most likely they were nearer to King Henry VIII. Henry Carey was created Baron Hunsdon by Elizabeth I. In October 1562, when the Queen thought herself dying, she especially commended Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon, to the care of her Council. For Queen Elizabeth I, the truth about her half-siblings/first cousins, the Careys would have been, at the very least, a major domestic and European embarrassment and, almost certainly, a serious impediment to the full establishment and maintenance of her legitimacy, compromising her claim to the throne. Leo van de Pas – 2008

Sources

[S48] Stirnet Genealog, http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/british/ss4as/scrope2.htm (Reliability: 3).
primary sources: Burke's Extinct Peerage, 1883; Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952.
[S109] Royal Genealogy, Brian Tompset, (Hull, England: University of Hull, 7 Mar 2005), http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal2394 (Reliability: 4).
[S110] Leo's Genealogics Website, Leonardus Franciscus Maria van de Pas, (Perth, Australia: www.genealogics.org, 1990-2008), I00056493 (Reliability: 3).
[S318] BBC history, British Broadcasting Corporation, (London, United Kingdom: www.bbc.co.uk, 2008), The Other Boleyn Girl (Reliability: 3).
by Alison Plowden, 27 Mar 03
[S316] HistoryNet, HistoryNet.com, (Leesburg, Virginia: The Weider Hisrtory Group, 2008), Mary Boleyn by Karen Harper (Reliability: 3).
[S506] Antiquities of Nottinghamshire, Robert Thoroton, (Nottingham, England: G. Burbage, 1790), Page 204 (Reliability: 4).
[S110] Leo's Genealogics Website, Leonardus Franciscus Maria van de Pas, (Perth, Australia: www.genealogics.org, 1990-2008), I00054145 (Reliability: 4).