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Philippe de Carteret II

Philippe de Carteret II

Seigneur of Sark (1584–1643)


Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur of Sark (18 February 1584 22 August 1643) was the son of Philippe de Carteret I (15521594) and Rachel Paulett (15641650), daughter of George Paulett (1534–1621) who was Bailiff of Jersey from 1583 to 1611, and his wife Elizabeth Perrin (1538–1615).

Biography

He matriculated at the University of Oxford at an early age in 1594, the same year he succeeded his father as Seigneur of Sark. He was knighted in 1617, and became Bailiff of Jersey in 1627. He died in 1643, being succeeded in the Seigneurie by his son, Philippe 4th Seigneur of Sark.

English Civil War

Carteret was a stanch Royalist during the English Civil War, especially during the Interregnum. As Lieutenant Governor of the island of Jersey he would ensure the loyalty of the population to Charles II and crack down on parliamentary sentiment from the fortress of Mont Orgueil.[1]

When Charles II came to Jersey Philip Carteret along with his cousin George Carteret were his escorts.[2]

Family

[3]

Carteret married Anne Dowse (1587-1664), daughter of Sir Francis Dowse (died 1649) of Nether Wallop, Hampshire and his wife Elizabeth Paulet (died before 1649)[lower-alpha 1] They had seven sons and three daughters:[4]

Ancestry

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Notes

  1. Elizabeth Paulet was a great niece of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and a third cousin of Philippe's mother, Rachel Poulet

References

  1. Powell, J. R (1962). The Navy in the English Civil War. Archon Books. p. 28.
  2. Hoskins, Samuel Elliot (1854). Charles the Second in the Channel Islands: A contribution to his biography and to the history of his age. In 2 Volumes. Rich. Bentley. pp. 310–385.
  3. Evans, Helen M. E. "Carteret, Sir Philippe [Philip] de". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/4805. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Further reading

  • Balleine, George Reginald (1948), Biographical dictionary of Jersey, London & New York: Staples Press, OCLC 4469057 — contains an biographical entry for this man
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