William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester
The Most Honourable The Marquess of Winchester KB JP |
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Lord High Steward for the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots |
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In office 31 August 1587 – 1 September 1587 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
Chancellor | Sir Christopher Hatton | ||||||||||||
Preceded by | The Earl of Shrewsbury for the trial of the Duke of Norfolk |
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Succeeded by | The Earl of Derby for the trial of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey |
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Lord Lieutenant of Dorset | |||||||||||||
In office 1580 – ? |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
Chancellor | Sir Thomas Bromley | ||||||||||||
Preceded by | The Lord Mountjoy | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The Earl of Bedford | ||||||||||||
In office 1 March 1586 – 24 November 1598 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
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Preceded by | The Earl of Bedford | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The Viscount Howard of Bindon | ||||||||||||
Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire | |||||||||||||
In office before 1585 – 24 November 1598 Serving with The Earl of Sussex (3 July 1585 – 14 December 1593) The Lord Mountjoy (from 4 August 1595) The Lord Hunsdon (from 8 September 1603) |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
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Preceded by | Unknown | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | The Lord Mountjoy The Lord Hunsdon |
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High Sheriff of Hampshire | |||||||||||||
In office 1560–1561 |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
Chancellor | Sir Nicholas Bacon | ||||||||||||
Preceded by | Thomas Pace | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | William Uvedale | ||||||||||||
Member of Parliament for Dorset | |||||||||||||
In office 1571–1571 Serving with John Horsey |
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Monarch | Elizabeth I | ||||||||||||
Chancellor | Sir Nicholas Bacon | ||||||||||||
Preceded by | Thomas Howard | ||||||||||||
Succeeded by | John Stroke | ||||||||||||
Constituency | Dorset | ||||||||||||
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Born | William Paulet 1532 |
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Resting place | St. Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
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Nationality | English | ||||||||||||
Spouse(s) | Anne Howard | ||||||||||||
Domestic partner | Jane Lambert (mistress) | ||||||||||||
Children | With Anne Howard: William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester Lady Anne Dennis Lady Katherine Wroughton Lady Elizabeth Hoby With Jane Lambert: Sir William Paulet Sir John Paulet Sir Hercules Paulet Hector Paulet Susannah Warnfford |
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Parents | John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (father) Elizabeth Willougby (mother) |
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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.[1] He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Mary I on 30 November 1553.[2]
Career
The offices he held during his career included:[3][4]
- Justice of the Peace, Hampshire from c.1559
- Sheriff of Hampshire 1560-61
- Justice of the Peace, Dorset from 1564
- Commissioner for the Musters, Dorset 1569
- High Steward, Dorchester by 1570
- Joint Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1569 and 1585/6-98
- Member of Parliament for Dorset 1571
- Joint Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1585
- Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1585-86
- Lord High Steward for the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots, 1 August 1587
- Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1596
- Commissioner for Ecclesiastical Causes, Diocese of Winchester 1597
Paulet was summoned to Parliament on 5 May 1572 in his father's Barony of St John.[1] He succeeded his father as 3rd Marquess of Winchester on 4 November 1576. During October of 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.[5] It was published in 1586 and 1587.[6]
Marriage and issue
Between 20 June 1544 and 10 February 1547/1548[7] he married Anne or Agnes[8] Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham and his first wife, Katherine Broughton and had issue:[9][10][11]
- 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[11]
The marriage was not a happy one, and the couple were only reconciled, on one occasion, by Elizabeth I's intervention.[8]
Paulet also had children with his recognised mistress Jane Lambert, who later married the much younger Sir Gerrard Fleetwood.[12][13]
- 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.[9] His widow, Anne Paulet, died 18 November 1601.[9] The date of Jane Lambert's death is not recorded.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cokayne 1898, p. 173.
- ↑ Shaw I 1906, p. 152.
- ↑ Cokayne 1898, pp. 173-174.
- ↑ Hasler 1981.
- ↑ Cokayne 1898, p. 174, note (b).
- ↑ Thomas 1949, pp. 592-599.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Cokayne 1898, p. 174 footnote (a).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Cokayne 1898, p. 174.
- ↑ Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry III 2011, p. 312.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Emerson 2008-13.
- ↑ Rylands 1913, p. 224.
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External links
- William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester Family tree
- PAULET, Sir William (c.1532-98), of Hooke Court, Dorset A biography
- William Paulet, 3rd M. of Winchester His family and details of his life
Political offices | ||
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Preceded by
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Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire jointly with The Earl of Sussex 1585–1593 The Lord Mountjoy 1595–1598 The Lord Hunsdon 1597–1598 1585–1598 |
Succeeded by The Lord Mountjoy The Lord Hunsdon |
Preceded by | Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1586–1598 |
Vacant
Title next held by
The Viscount Howard of Bindon |
Peerage of England | ||
Preceded by | Marquess of Winchester 1576–1598 |
Succeeded by William Paulet |
Baron St John of Basing (writ in acceleration) 1572–1598 |
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- People from Basingstoke and Deane