Sir Reginald de Carteret, Baron of Carteret and 1st Seigneur of Saint Ouen (1140–1214) was the son of Renaud de Carteret, Baron of Carteret and Lord of Saint Ouen, and father of
Philippe and
Godefroy.
With the separation of
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
from England, (1204), Renaud de Carteret had to choose (with many others) between his possessions in
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependencies, Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west F ...
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
Duke of Normandy
In the Middle Ages, the duke of Normandy was the ruler of the Duchy of Normandy in north-western Kingdom of France, France. The duchy arose out of a grant of land to the Viking leader Rollo by the French king Charles the Simple, Charles III in ...
in the person of
John of England
John (24 December 1166 – 19 October 1216) was King of England from 1199 until his death in 1216. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to King Philip II of France, resulting in the collapse of the Angevin Emp ...
. Had he decided otherwise, there can be no doubt that the history of Jersey would have been a different one. It would probably have been won over by the king of France and placed on the same footing as the
Chausey Islands, dependencies of France not differing from the mainland in government or speech.
Ancestry
References
Further reading
* {{cite journal , author=Blanche B. Elliott , title=Jersey: An Isle of Romance , year=1923
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Biographies de Carteret
Renaud De Carteret III Sir Reginald de Carteret, Baron of Carteret and 1st Seigneur of Saint Ouen (1140–1214) was the son of Renaud de Carteret, Baron of Carteret and Lord of Saint Ouen, and father of Philippe and Godefroy.
With the separation of Normandy from En ...