William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester ( – 24 November 1598) was an English nobleman, the son of

John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester ( – 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 ...

and his first wife, Elizabeth Willoughby. His maternal grandfather was

Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke and ''de jure'' 10th Baron Latimer, (1472 – 10 November 1521) was an English nobleman and soldier. Robert Willoughby was born about 1470–1472 (aged 30 in 1502, 36 in 1506), the son of Sir ...

. He was made a

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at the coronation of

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on 30 November 1553.

Career

The offices he held during his career included: *

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, Hampshire from c.1559 *

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1560–61 * Justice of the Peace,

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from 1564 * Commissioner for the Musters, Dorset 1569 * High Steward, Dorchester by 1570 * Joint

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1569 and 1585/6-98 *

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for

1571 * Joint Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1585 *

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1585–86 *

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for the funeral of

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, 1 August 1587 * Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire 1596 * Commissioner for Ecclesiastical Causes,

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1597 Paulet was summoned to Parliament on 5 May 1572 in his father's Barony of St John. He succeeded his father as 3rd

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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

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and his first wife, Katherine Broughton and had issue: *

William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester (bef. 1560 – 4 February 1629) was an English nobleman, the son of William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester and Anne or Agnes Howard. He was styled Lord St. John from 1576 to 1598. He was summone ...

, died 4 February 1629, married Lucy Cecil, daughter of

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* Anne Paulet, born 1552, married Sir

Thomas Denys Sir Thomas Denys ( – 18 February 1561) of Holcombe Burnell, near Exeter, Devon, was a prominent lawyer who served as Sheriff of Devon nine times between 1507/8 to 1553/4 and as MP for Devon. He acquired large estates in Devon at the Dissolut ...

(modern spelling: Dennis), of

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, Devon; grandparents of the prodigy Denys Rolle * 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

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'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

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, Wiltshire.

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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 on 24 November 1598 and was buried at Basing, Hampshire. His widow, Anne Paulet, died on 18 November 1601. The date of Jane Lambert's death is not recorded.

References

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External links

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PAULET, Sir William (c.1532–98), of Hooke Court, Dorset
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People from Basingstoke and Deane Marquesses of Winchester Burials at St. Mary's Church, Old Basing