Everything about William Carey Courtier totally explained
Sir William Carey (c.1500–
June 22 1528), was a courtier and
favourite of King
Henry VIII of England. He served the king as a Gentleman of the
Privy Chamber, and
Esquire of the Body to the King. His wife,
Lady Mary Boleyn, is known to history as a mistress of King Henry VIII.
Biography
William Carey was the second son of Thomas Carey (1479-1536), of
Chilton Foliat in
Wiltshire, and his wife,
Margaret Spencer.
On February 4,
1520 Carey was also a noted art collector and he introduced the famed Dutch artist,
Lucas van Horenbolte, to the
Kingdom of England in the mid-
1520s.
Anne Boleyn, Mary's younger sister, caught Henry's eye a year after his affair with Mary ended. Henry proposed marriage to her in
1527. William Carey didn't live to enjoy his sister-in-law's prosperity, since he died of the
sweating sickness in that same year. He died greatly in debt, and his wife was reduced to pawning her jewelery before Anne Boleyn arranged a small pension for her.
Children of William Carey and Mary Boleyn
Sir William Carey and Mary Boleyn were the parents of two children:
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Catherine Carey (c.
1524 -
15 January 1568). Maid of Honour to
Anne of Cleves and
Catherine Howard. She was married to the Puritan, Sir
Francis Knollys,
Knight of the Garter. She was later lady-in-waiting to her cousin,
Elizabeth I. One of her daughters,
Lettice Knollys, became the second wife of
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, the favourite of Elizabeth I.
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Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon (
4 March 1526 -
23 July 1596). He was ennobled by Queen Elizabeth I just after her coronation.
Knight of the Garter. Elizabeth offered Henry the Boleyn family title of earl of Ormonde, which he'd long sought, when he was dying; but he refused the honour.
Paternity of the Carey children
It has long been rumored that one or both of Mary Boleyn's children were fathered by Henry. Some writers, for example
Alison Weir, question whether Henry Carey (Mary's son) was fathered by the King . While others such as, Dr. G.W. Bernard (author of
The King's Reformation) and Joanna Denny (author of
Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen and
Katherine Howard: A Tudor Conspiracy) argue that he may have been.
One witness did note that Mary's son bore a resemblance to Henry VIII, but the witness in question was John Hales, vicar of Isleworth, who some ten years after the child was born remarked that he'd met a 'young Master Carey,' who some monks believed was the king's bastard. There is no other contemporary evidence that Henry Carey was the king’s biological son and a close reading of the Letters and Papers (a collection of surviving documents from the period) clearly pinpoint Henry's birth in
March 1526 - by which time the affair is believed to have ended.
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