Sir Edward Carne

Sir Edward Carne

Sir Edward Carne, Renaissance scholar and diplomat (?-1561).Learned in law and Greek Carne profited from the Dissolution of the Monasteries in Glamorgan, where he purchased Ewenny Priory. He served on embassies to Emperor Charles V and to Rome, where he chose to remain on the accession of Elizabeth I. He is buried in the narthex of the church of St.Gregory on the Caelian Hill (mural inscription).

C.J.O.Evans:Glamorgan,its History and Topography,1938.


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