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The family originated from Normandy where their ancestor Guy de Carteret was the first Lord of the Barony of Carteret in Normandy. The family sided with William the Conqueror in the Norman conquest.
The de Carteret family originated in Normandy. They colonised the island of Sark as Seigneurs. At the time of the restoration, some became Barons Carteret and were granted lands in the Carolinas and in the State that became New Jersey. Their ancestral seat is Saint Ouen's Manor, Jersey, still today owned by persons of that name.
Philip Carteret was the son of Philippe de Carteret II.He succeeded to the Seigneurie of Sark on the death of his father in 1643.. During the English Civil War, Carteret was lieutenant to his kinsman George Carteret, and was knighted on the beach of St Aubin's Bay in Jersey by the exiled Charles, Prince of Wales in 1645.
He went on the First Crusade, 1096-99, with Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy. In the archives of Saint-Lô exists a charter, dating from the First Crusade, on which is found the seal of Renaud de Carteret. This seal shows that, during the latter part of the twelfth century, the de Carterets discarded their non-heraldic "equestrian" seal, and ...
He was the eldest son of Sir George Carteret and his wife and cousin, Elizabeth de Cartetet. [1]Philip was elected Fellow of the Royal Society on 15 February 1665.. He married Lady Jemima Montagu, daughter of Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich and Jemima Crewe, in an arranged marriage on 31 July 1665.
The fief of St Ouen, the most senior fief in Jersey's feudal structure, was by 1135 in the hands of the de Carteret family. They held extensive lands in Carteret as well, but these were lost by them after King John's loss of Normandy, so they decided to settle on the island. Between the 12th and 20th centuries, there were an estimated 245 fiefs ...
With the separation of Normandy from England, (1204), Renaud de Carteret had to choose (with many others) between his possessions in Jersey and those in continental Normandy. Although he had far greater lands on the continent, of which the town of Carteret still bears the name, he chose to throw in his lot with Jersey and remain faithful to the ...
Philip de Carteret (died 1500) was the eighth Seigneur of Saint Ouen.The son of Philip, he married Margaret Harliston in 1470 and had 21 children. According to a biased non-contemporary account of Baker's governorship, Philip de Carteret opposed the alleged cruelty of the rule of Matthew Baker as Governor of Jersey, who had been appointed with vice-regal Powers in all but name.