Renaud De Carteret III

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Sir Renaud, (Reginald), De Carteret III, Seigneur of Carteret., (1129–1169). Son of Renaud De Carteret II and father of Philippe and Godfrei.

With the separation of Normandy from England, (1204), Renaud de Carteret had to choose, (with many others), between his possessions in Jersey and those in Normandy. Although he had far greater lands in Normandy, 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 person of John of England. 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 France and placed on the same footing as the Chausey Islands, dependencies of France not differing from the mainland in government or speech.