Philippe de Carteret II

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Philippe de Carteret II, 3rd Seigneur of Sark (18 February 1584 – 22 August 1643) was the son of Philippe de Carteret I (1552–1594) and Rachel Paulett (1564–1650), daughter of George Paulett (1534–1621) who was Bailiff of Jersey from 1583 to 1611, and his wife Elizabeth Perrin (1538–1615).

Biography[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

[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)[a] They had seven sons and three daughters:[4]

Ancestry[edit]

8. Edouard de Carteret, 9th Seigneur of Saint Ouen
4. Helier de Carteret, 1st Seigneur of Sark
9. Marie Sarre
2. Philippe de Carteret I, 2nd Seigneur of Sark
10. Bailiff Helier de Carteret
5. Margaret Dumaresq
11. Margaret Dumaresq
1. Philippe de Carteret II
12. Sir Hugh Paulet, Governor of Jersey
6. George Paulett
13. Philippa Pollard
3. Rachel Paulett
14. Edmund Perrin
7. Elizabeth Perrin
15. Jane Holland-Carew

Notes[edit]

  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[edit]

  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. ^ Payne, James Bertrand (1865). Armorial of Jersey : being an account, heraldic and antiquarian, of its chief native families, with pedigrees, biographical notices, and illustrative data; to which are added, a brief history of heraldry, and remarks on the mediæval antiquities of the island. pp. 100–110. OCLC 1038122898.
  4. ^ 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[edit]

  • Balleine, George Reginald (1948), Biographical dictionary of Jersey, London & New York: Staples Press, OCLC 4469057 — contains an biographical entry for this man
Legal offices
Preceded by Bailiff of Jersey
1627-1643
Succeeded by
Regnal titles
Preceded by Seigneur of Sark
1594–1643
Succeeded by