Ancestral Trails 2016 » John PAULET (1510-1576)

Personal data John PAULET 

• He was born in the year 1510 in Basing House, Basing, Hampshire.
• Title: 2nd Marquess of Winchester, Lord St John, Earl of Wiltshire
• He died on November 4, 1576 in Chelsea, Hammersmith, Middlesex, he was 66 years old.
• A child of William PAULET and Elizabeth CAPEL

Household of John PAULET

(1) He is married to Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY.

They got married on October 20, 1528 at Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire, he was 18 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth PAULET  1536-1576 
2. Mary PAULET  1542-1592 
3. William PAULET  1533-1598 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Elizabeth SEYMOUR.

They got married on April 24, 1554 at Wolf Hall, Savernake, Wiltshire, he was 44 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



(3) He is married to Winifred BRUGIS.

They got married September 1568 at Basing, Hampshire, he was 58 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about John PAULET

John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (c. 1510 - 4 November 1576), styled The Honourable John Paulet between 1539 and 1550, Lord St John between 1550 and 1551 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1551 and 1555, was an English peer. He was the eldest son of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and Elizabeth Capel.

John Paulet was knighted by Henry VIII at Boulogne on 30 September 1544. After the death of Edward VI he was (with his father) one of the signatories to the settlement of the Crown on Lady Jane Grey of 16 June 1553, although he later changed his allegiance to Queen Mary. He was styled Lord St John from 1550 to 1572. He was summoned to Parliament on 3 October 1554 in one of his father's baronies as Lord St John. He was one of the Peers at the trial of the Duke of Norfolk on 16 January 1572. He succeeded his father as Marquess of Winchester on 10 March 1572.

The offices he held during his career included:

High Sheriff of Hampshire 1533-34
High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1543-44
Steward of Canford castle 1549/50
Constable of Corfe Castle 1549/50
Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1557
Governor of the Isle of Wight 1558
Keeper of St Andrew's Castle, Hamble 1572-76

Paulet was married three times:
He married as his first wife, before 1536, Elizabeth Willoughby, first daughter and co-heiress of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and Lady Dorothy Grey, and by her had six children:
William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester (born about 1532 - 24 November 1598)
Mary Paulet (died 10 October 1592), married Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell of Oakham
George Paulet
Thomas Paulet
Richard Paulet
Elizabeth Paulet, married firstly Sir William Courtenay of Powderham and secondly Sir Henry Ughtred

He married secondly, around 1 April 1554, Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth, and widow of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell.

He married thirdly, before May 1571, Winifred Brydges (1507-1586), daughter of Sir John Brydges (or Brugge), Lord Mayor of London 1520-21, and Agnes Ayloffe.

John Paulet died at Chelsea on 4 June 1576 and was buried in St. Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire. His widow, Winifred, died at Chelsea in 1586 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paulet,_2nd_Marquess_of_Winchester


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