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John Carey | |
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| Born | c. 1491 |
| Died | 1552 (aged 60–61) |
| Spouse | Joyce Denny |
| Children | 2, including Edward |
| Mother | Eleanor Spencer |
| Relatives | William Carey (brother) Eleanor Carey (sister) Robert Spencer (grandfather) Eleanor Beaufort (grandmother) William Cary (grandfather) Henry Cary (grandson) |
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Sir John Cary (or Carey) (c. 1491 – 1552), of Pleshey in Essex, was a courtier to King Henry VIII, whom he served as a Groom of the Privy Chamber, and of whom he was a third cousin, both being 4th in descent from John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (1371-1410).[4]
- ^ Vivian, p.150
- ^ Mereworth was associated with the Walsingham family, first husband of Joyce Denny, wife of Sir John Cary; Sir John Cary has omitted quartering the arms of Beaufort, as he was entitled to do and as his descendants did. Possibly a prudent decision, as in the reign of the unstable and paranoid King Henry VIII any quartering of the royal arms could be taken as a sign of pretence to the throne, and thus could result in imprisonment and execution
- ^ Councer, C. R. (1962). "Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth". Archaeologia Cantiana. 77: 48–62, esp. p.50 et seq.
- ^ Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset was the third surviving son of John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the eldest of the four legitimised children of John of Gaunt (1340-1399) (third surviving son of King Edward III) by his mistress, Katherine Swynford
