George Carew (diplomat)

Sir George Carew ( † 1612 or 1613 ) was an English diplomat and historian.

He was the second son of Wymond Carew of Antony. Carew was educated at Oxford and also got special legal training. The Queen Elizabeth I granted him knighthood, after he became secretary of the Chancellor Christopher Hatton. After the promotion in the State, he was sent as ambassador to Poland. After 1603, under James I, he led negotiations with Scotland and spent several years as ambassador to France. His relation of the State of France contains a wealth of information about the court of Henri IV His relation and also reports of other diplomats: (? 1563-1639 ) Sir Thomas Edmonde and Anthony Bacon were of Thomas Birch ( 1705-1766 ) published.

1598 traveled Carew, appointed by Chancellor Robert Cecil to Poland in order to improve relations between the two countries, because previously the Polish embassy was received coolly in London. The true goal of the mission was the exploration of Polish foreign policy in the English search for partners in conflict with Spain, Empire and with the Hanseatic League.

His stay in Poland he described in: A Relation of the State of Polonia ( 1598 ). The Polish nobility he introduced as " greedy and addicted drinking, hot-tempered and quarrelsome, but nice and friendly in handling " represents the Polish king Sigismund III. Wasa he liked, but certified him " lack of charisma ". The neighboring countries of Poland he described as " barbaric" and was surprised that there is not a program of colonization of Ukraine ( Dnieper ) and there are no fortresses to hedge against the Tartar nomads to be built. Carew also wrote passages about Poland for the work Historia mei temporis of Jacques- Auguste de Thou. The manuscript of the " relation" is preserved in the British Museum in London.