page_title: Thomas Bodley
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Bodley / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable
context_page_description: Sir Thomas Bodley was an English diplomat and scholar who founded the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
context_section_description: In 1587 he married Ann Carew, the wealthy widow of Mr Ball, and the daughter of Mr Carew of Bristol in Somerset. His monument in Merton College Chapel displays the arms of Bodley impaling Carew (Or, three lions passant in pale sable), an ancient Devonshire family seated at Mohuns Ottery, descended from Nicholas Carew (d. 1311), feudal lord of Carew Castle in Pembrokeshire, feudal lord of Odrone (mod. Idrone, County Carlow) in Ireland and lord of the manor of Moulsford in Berkshire.
caption: Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable,[10] as seen on monument[11] to Thomas Bodley in Merton College Chapel
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