Henry Carey, 1º Baron Hunsdon

Abt 1524 - 1596  (~ 72 years)

• Name	Henry Carey  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	1º Baron Hunsdon
  Born	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	19 Aug 2011

  
  

  Father	King Henry VIII of England,   b. 28 Jun 1491, Greenwich Palace ,   d. 28 Jan 1547, Whitehall, , Orkney Islands, Scotland  (Age 55 years)
  Relationship	challenged
  Mother	Mary Boleyn,   b. Abt 1500-1504, Hever Castle ,   d. 19 Jul 1543  (Age ~ 39 years)
  Relationship	biological
  Married	Abt 1521-1526
  Family ID	F2733	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  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  (Age 56 years)   2. Honorable Henry Carey,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. Honorable Catherine Carey,   b. 1549, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 25 Feb 1602/03, 'Arundel House', City of London, Greater London, England  (Age 54 years)   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  (Age 62 years)   10. Honorable Sir Edmund Carey,   b. 1557, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 12 Sep 1637, Culham, Oxfordshire  (Age 80 years)   11. Robert Carey, 1º Earl of Monmouth,   b. Abt 1560, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 12 Apr 1639, Moor Park, Hertsfordshire  (Age ~ 79 years) + 12. Honorable Philadelphia Carey,   b. 1563, Hunsdon, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 3 Feb 1626/27, Bolton, Greater Manchester, England  (Age 64 years)
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2011
  Family ID	F1702	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos

  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

  
  

• Reference

  If the Legends Are True... by J. Craig Canada, "Henry Carey, 1º Baron Hunsdon" (accessed March 3, 2021) | http://www.palmspringsbum.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I4662&tree=Legends.