Tomb of Sir William Carew (d.1501) of Bury Saint Edmunds, Suffolk. He was the 5th son of Nicholas, Baron Carew, by his wife Joan Courtenay, one of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Phillipa Archdekne (daughter and heiress of Sir Warren Archdekne of Haccombe in Devon), by her husband (whose 2nd wife she was) Sir Hugh I Courtenay (after 1358 – 5 or 6 March 1425), of Boconnoc in Cornwall and of Haccombe in Devon, Sheriff of Devon for 1418/19 and thrice elected knight of the shire for Devon in 1395, 1397 and 1421. He was a grandson of Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd/10th Earl of Devon (1303–1377), was the younger brother of Edward de Courtenay, 3rd/11th Earl of Devon (1357–1419), "The Blind Earl", and was the grandfather of Edward Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (d.1509), KG, created Earl of Devon in 1485 by King Henry VII. As Sir Hugh I Courtenay remarried a third time and produced sons, Joan Courtenay inherited only her mother's estates (including Haccombe), and not the paternal estates including Boconnoc.

Sir William Carew's eldest brother, Thomas Carew, inherited the ancient Carew seat of Mohun's Ottery in Devon but nothing from his mother, the great Archdekne heiress - "Sir Thomas, the eldest son, disobliging his mother (having undutifully given her a blow), she settled seventeen manors on her younger sons, which proved the occasion of three great families." (Kimber, E. and R. Johnson, The Baronetage of England, (London: G. Woodfall, 1771), Vol. II, p. 220) His second eldest brother Nicholas Carew inherited their mother's manor of Haccombe, whilst his fourth eldest brother Alexander Carew was seated at Antony in Devon. Sir William Carew was created a knight banneret by King Henry VII.

He married twice:

• Firstly to "Jane Drury, widow of Thomas Hervey (died c.1467), a younger brother of John Hervey (d. 23 September 1474) of Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, and daughter of Henry Drury by Elizabeth Eton, the daughter of George Eton. By her first husband, Thomas Hervey (d.1467), Jane Drury was the great-grandmother of Sir William Hervey (d.1642), who married, as her third husband, Mary Browne (d.1607), mother of Henry Wriothesley (1573-1624), 3rd Earl of Southampton". (National Archives notes, "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/12/390 1 , Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the last will and testament, dated 26 May 1501 and proved 28 June 1501, of Sir William Carew"[1]),

• Secondly to Margaret Chedworth (d.1525), (Vivian: "Catworth" (sic)) a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Chedworth, Lord Mayor of London in 1443. She was a niece of John Chedworth (d.1471), Bishop of Lincoln. (Some doubt exists as to his second wife's identity, but National Archive notes to his will "THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES PROB 11/12/390 1 , Prerogative Court of Canterbury copy of the last will and testament, dated 26 May 1501 and proved 28 June 1501, of Sir William Carew"[2] settles the matter: "A Chancery suit, TNA C 1/88/21, dating from 1486-93 establishes that the testator’s second wife, Margaret Chedworth, was the daughter of William Chedworth of Stepney and the niece of William Chedworth’s, brother, John Chedworth (d.1471), Bishop of Lincoln,"). Sir William Carew founded the family of "Carew of Crowcombe in Somerset". (Source: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.135 (Carew), p.245 (Courtenay)).

Arms, five shields left to right:

• 1: Argent, three chevronels sable, arms of Ercedecne/Erchdecon/Archdekne/Archdeacon, of Haccombe, Devon. These are also the arms of the commune of Erchin in Northern France.
• 2: Or, three lions passant in pale sable (Carew) impaling Azure, a chevron between three wolf's / greyhound's / fox's heads erased or (Chedworth) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.188). For his second wife;
• 3: Carew quartering Archdekne;
• 4: Carew impaling Argent, on a chief vert a cross tau between two mullets pierced or (Drury) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.302 "Drury of Thurston Rougham in Suffolk"). For his first wife. (Shown here incorrectly with chief azure).
• 5: Carew.