William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester
William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester (bef. 1560[1] – 4 February 1629) was an English nobleman, the son of William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester and Anne or Agnes Howard.[2] He was styled Lord St. John from 1576 to 1598. He was summoned to Parliament on 16 January 1581 in his father's barony as Lord St. John.[1] On 24 November 1598, he succeeded his father as 4th Marquess of Winchester. Paulet experienced great financial difficulties arising from his magnificent style of living and his lavish entertainment of Elizabeth I at Basing House.[1][3]
William Paulet | |
|---|---|
| Marquess of Winchester Baron St. John | |
 Arms of Paulet, Marquess of Winchester: Sable, three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or | |
| Born | Before 1560 |
| Died | 4 February 1629 (aged 68–69) |
| Buried | St. Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire 51.271389°N 1.046667°W |
| Noble family | Paulet |
| Spouse(s) | Lucy Cecil |
| Issue | |
| Father | William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester |
| Mother | Anne Howard |
Marriage and issue
On 28 February 1587 at St Martin-in-the-Fields, he married Lady Lucy Cecil, daughter of Sir Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter and his first wife, Dorothy Neville.[1] Lucy and William had six children:[4]
- William Paulet, Lord St John (1587/8–1621), married Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony-Maria Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu
- Thomas Paulet, died before 1621
- John Paulet, 5th Marquess of Winchester (c.1598–5 March 1675) married three times:
- Jane Savage, daughter of Thomas Savage, 1st Viscount Savage
- Honora de Burgh, daughter of Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde
- Isabel Howard, daughter of William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford and Mary Stafford
- Henry Paulet, of Amport, married Lucy Philpot, daughter of Sir George Philpot of Thruxton
- Charles Paulet, died c.1654, had issue
- Edward Paulet
His wife, Lucy, died 1 October 1614 and was buried a month later in the Cecil vault in Westminster Abbey.[1]
Death
William Paulet died at Hackwood, near Basingstoke, on 4 February 1629, and was buried at Basing, Hampshire.[1]
Footnotes
- Cokayne 1898, p. 174.
- Cokayne 1898, p. 174 footnote (a).
- Lodge 1859, p. 580.
- "William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester". Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry families with extended lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
Sources
- Cokayne, G. E. (1898). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, vol. VIII. Exeter: William Pollard. p. 174.
- Goodwin, Gordon (1895). "Paulet, John". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 90–92.
- Lodge, Edmund (1859). The Genealogy of the Existing British Peerage and Baronetage: Containing the Family Histories of the Nobility. London: Hurst and Blackett. p. 580.
- "William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester". Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry families with extended lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
- "William Paulett, 4th Marquess of Winchester". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 December 2013.
- "Winchester, Marquess of (E, 1551)". Cracroft's Peerage. Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
External links
| Peerage of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by William Paulet |
Marquess of Winchester 1598–1628 |
Succeeded by John Paulet |
| Baron St John of Basing (descended by acceleration) 1598–1624 | ||