William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester

English Marquess

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]

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
• Lord 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, was treated for cancer in 1614 by the court physician Théodore de Mayerne.^[5] She 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

1. Cokayne 1898, p. 174.
2. Cokayne 1898, p. 174 footnote (a).
3. Lodge 1859, p. 580.
4. Family Search: "William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester".
5. Joseph Browne, Theo. Turquet Mayernii Opera medica (London, 1703), pp. 188–95

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. Vol. 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. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Archived from the original on 2013-12-20. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
• "William Paulett, 4th Marquess of Winchester". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 2013-12-21.
• "Winchester, Marquess of (E, 1551)". Cracroft's Peerage. Archived from the original on 2013-11-13. Retrieved 2013-12-19.

External links

• William Paulet, Marquess of Winchester Family tree
• History of Basing House