William Cary

Monumental brass believed to represent Sir William Cary (1437–1471), lord of the manors of Clovelly and Cockington, Devon. Set into a slate ledger stone in floor of chancel, All Saints Church, Clovelly, without identifying inscription or armorials, next to brass of his son and heir Robert Cary (died 1540) Arms of Cary: Argent, on a bend sable three roses of the field. Sir William Cary (1437–1471) of Cockington and Clovelly in Devon was a member of the Devonshire gentry. He was beheaded after the defeat of the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. ten times MP for Taunton, by whom she had children, ancestors of the present Viscount Portman, owner of the Portman Estate in London.

Marriages and children Cary married twice:

Robert Cary (died 1540), of Cockington

Thomas Cary of Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, who married Margaret Spencer (1472–1536), (or Eleanor Spencer Anne [de] Carey (1493-1550) of Clovelly. No issue. William Carey (1495-1528), her second son, the first husband of Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, and ancestor to the Cary Barons Hunsdon, Barons Cary of Leppington, Earls of Monmouth, Viscounts Rochford and Earls of Dover. Margaret [de] Carey (1496-1560) of Clovelly. She married Sir John Delaval, Sheriff (16 April 1493 – 14 December 1562), a descendant of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland; Margaret de Stafford; John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray; and Elizabeth de Segrave, 5th Baroness Segrave. Edward Carey (1498-1560). No issue. Eleanor [de] Carey (1499-1526) of Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire. She became a nun at Wilton Abbey. Marie [de] Carey (1501-1560) of Bideford, Devon, who married Sir Henry Goldsmith (1500-1551) of Richmond, Greater London.

Death Cary was beheaded on 6 May 1471 after the defeat of the Lancastrians at the Battle of Tewkesbury. He is believed to be represented by a monumental brass of a knight, without surviving identifying inscription, set into a slate ledger stone on the floor of the chancel of All Saints Church, Clovelly, next to a smaller brass, in similar style, of his son and heir Robert Cary (died 1540).