Ancestral Trails 2016 » William PAULET (1533-1598)

Personal data William PAULET 

• He was born in the year 1533 in Basing, Hampshire.
• Title: 3rd Marquess of Winchester
• He died on November 24, 1598 in Basing, Hampshire, he was 65 years old.
• A child of John PAULET and Elizabeth WILLOUGHBY

Household of William PAULET

(1) He had a relationship with Jane LAMBERT.

Child(ren):

1. Hector PAULET  1578-????
2. Susan PAULET  ± 1582-????
3. Hercules PAULET  1574-????
4. William PAULET  ± 1580-???? 
5. John PAULET  1576-????

(2) He is married to Agnes HOWARD.

They got married February 1547/48 at Basing, Hampshire, he was 14 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Elizabeth PAULET  1560-1581
2. William PAULET  1563-???? 
3. Anne PAULET  1564-???? 

• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about William PAULET

William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester KB JP (1532 - 24 November 1598) was an English nobleman, the son of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester and his first wife, Elizabeth Willoughby. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Mary I on 30 November 1553.

Paulet was summoned to Parliament on 5 May 1572 in his father's Barony of St John. He succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Winchester on 4 November 1576. During October 1586, he was one of the judges at the trial of Mary, Queen of Scots, later acting as Lord High Steward at her funeral on 1 August 1587.

He is known as the author of The Lord Marquess Idleness, a remarkable and most ingenious acrostic of six Latin verses. It was published in 1586 and 1587.

Marriage and issue
Between 20 June 1544 and 10 February 1547/1548 he married Anne or Agnes Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham and his first wife, Katherine Broughton and had issue:

William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester, died 4 February 1629, married Lucy Cecil, daughter of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter
Anne Paulet, born 1552, married Sir Thomas Dennis, of Holcombe Burnell, Devon
Katherine Paulet, married Sir Giles Wroughton
Elizabeth Paulet, married Sir Edward Hoby

The marriage was not a happy one, and the couple were only reconciled, on one occasion, by Elizabeth I's intervention.

Paulet also had children with his recognised mistress Jane Lambert, who later married the much younger Sir Gerrard Fleetwood.

Sir William Paulet, died 1628, lawyer, London, later of Edington, Wiltshire. High Sheriff of Wiltshire 1613, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Seymour
Sir John Paulet, lawyer, Winchester, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stump
Sir Hercules Paulet, born 1574, married Bridgett, daughter of Sir Henry Gifford
Hector Paulet, born 1578, married Joan Butler
Susan or Susanna Paulet, married firstly Thomas Kirkby and secondly Launcelott Warnfford

Death
He died 24 November 1598 and was buried at Basing, Hampshire. His widow, Anne Paulet, died 18 November 1601. The date of Jane Lambert's death is not recorded.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paulet,_3rd_Marquess_of_Winchester

His death, on 24 Nov. 1598, was the signal for his family to close in on Jane Lambert. Their Chancery action listed her misdeeds, making him ‘a stranger and enemy to gentlemen of account and his nearest kinsmen’; ‘procuring a preacher to write a book justifying the said lord marquess’ in leaving his wife and marrying Mistress Lambert; opposing the marriage of Paulet’s son to the daughter of Thomas Cecil; ‘planting her own brothers and her friends in all principal places about him that might fill his ears full of their conceits’; ‘not suffering his own kinsmen or well willers to have access’ and so on. The family believed that ‘when he grew near his death he lay in extreme torment’, and that he accused himself of being ‘the notablest beast that ever lived’. He repented, they thought, of his sins, declared that he had left his heir a poor house, ‘and in these passions died’, 24 Nov. 1598, appointing three of the Lamberts executors and principal beneficiaries of his will, which his own family then successfully contested.
SOURCE: www.geni.com


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