Thomas Carve was a historian, b. in Co. Tipperary

Tipperary

Tipperary is a town and a civil parish in South Tipperary in Ireland. Its population was 4,415 at the 2006 census. It is also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly, and is in the historical barony of Clanwilliam....

, Ireland, 1590; d. probably in 1672. His correct name was Carew, that of a family of great influence in Munster

Munster

Munster is one of the Provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In Ancient Ireland, it was one of the fifths ruled by a "king of over-kings" . Following the Norman invasion of Ireland, the ancient kingdoms were shired into a number of counties for administrative and judicial purposes...

 during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. From his own works it is clear that the Butlers of Ormonde were his patrons during his early years. It is not certain where he was educated, but he was ordained priest, and passed some years in an Irish diocese

Diocese

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On the invitation of Walter Butler

Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormonde

Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormonde and 4th Earl of Ossory , was an Irish peer, the son of John Butler of Kilcash and of Lady Katherine MacCarthy, herself the daughter of Cormac na Haoine MacCarthy Reagh, 10th Prince of Carbery...

, then Colonel of an Irish regiment serving in Austria, he left Ireland and remained for some time as chaplain

Chaplain

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 to Butler's regiment. He returned to Ireland twice (1630, 1632), and on the death of Butler he acted as chaplain to Devereux, Butler's successor in the command of the Irish forces fighting under Ferdinand II

Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor

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. He accompanied the troops during several of the campaigns of the Thirty Years' War

Thirty Years' War

The Thirty Years' War was fought primarily in what is now Germany, and at various points involved most countries in Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history....

, and had thus a good opportunity of observing the events recorded in his history of the war. In 1640 he was appointed chaplain to the English, Scotch, and Irish forces in Austria, and continued to hold that position till 1643, when he went to reside at Vienna as a choral vicar of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. His last book was published in Sulzbach

Sulzbach

- Germany :* Sulzbach-Rosenberg, a town in the district Amberg-Sulzbach, Bavaria* Sulzbach, Saarland, a town in the district of Saarbrücken, Saarland* Sulzbach, Hesse, a municipality in the Main-Taunus-Kreis, Hesse...

 in 1672.

Published works

(1) Itinerarium R. D. Thomae Carve Tipperariensis, Sacellani majoris in fortissima juxta et nobilissima legione strenuissimi Colonelli D. W. Devereux, etc. (Mainz

Mainz

Mainz under the Holy Roman Empire, and previously was a Roman fort city which commanded the west bank of the Rhine and formed part of the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire...

, 1639–41, pts. I-II; Speyer, 1648, III; new ed., 1 vol., 1640–41). A new edition of the whole work was published in London in 1859. It gives a good account of the Thirty Years' War. In connection with the mysterious career of Wallenstein it is particularly valuable.

(2) Rerum Germanicarum ab anno 1617 ad annum 1641 gestarum Epitome (1641).

(3) Lyra seu Anacephalaeosis Hibernica, in qua de exordio, seu origine, nomine, moribus ritibusque Gentis Hibernicae succinte tractatur, cui quoque accessere Annales ejusdem Hiberniae necnon rerum gestarum per Europam 1148-1650 (Vienna, 1651; 2nd ed., Sulzbach, 1666).

(4) Enchiridion apologeticum Noribergae (1670).

(5) Responsio veridica ad illotum libellum cui nomen Anatomicum examen P. Antonii Bruodini, etc. (Sulzbach, 1672)