Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Honourable | ||||||||
The Marquess of Winchester | |||||||||
Office: | Lord High Steward for the funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots | ||||||||
Term Start: | 31 August 1587 | ||||||||
Term End: | 1 September 1587 | ||||||||
Chancellor: | Sir Christopher Hatton | ||||||||
Predecessor: | The Earl of Shrewsbury for the trial of the Duke of Norfolk | ||||||||
Successor: | The Earl of Derby for the trial of the Earl of Arundel and Surrey | ||||||||
Office2: | Lord Lieutenant of Dorset | ||||||||
Term Start2: | 1580 | ||||||||
Term End2: | ? | ||||||||
Monarch2: | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
Chancellor2: | Sir Thomas Bromley | ||||||||
Predecessor2: | The Lord Mountjoy | ||||||||
Successor2: | The Earl of Bedford | ||||||||
Term Start3: | 1 March 1586 | ||||||||
Term End3: | 24 November 1598 | ||||||||
Monarch3: | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
Predecessor3: | The Earl of Bedford | ||||||||
Successor3: | The Viscount Howard of Bindon | ||||||||
Office4: | Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire | ||||||||
Term Start4: | before 1585 | ||||||||
Term End4: | 24 November 1598 | ||||||||
Alongside4: | The Earl of Sussex (3 July 1585 – 14 December 1593) The Lord Mountjoy (from 4 August 1595) The Lord Hunsdon (from 8 September 1603) | ||||||||
Monarch4: | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
Predecessor4: | Unknown | ||||||||
Successor4: | The Lord Mountjoy The Lord Hunsdon | ||||||||
Office5: | High Sheriff of Hampshire | ||||||||
Term Start5: | 1560 | ||||||||
Term End5: | 1561 | ||||||||
Monarch5: | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
Chancellor5: | Sir Nicholas Bacon | ||||||||
Predecessor5: | Thomas Pace | ||||||||
Successor5: | William Uvedale | ||||||||
Office6: | Member of Parliament for Dorset | ||||||||
Term Start6: | 1571 | ||||||||
Term End6: | 1571 | ||||||||
Alongside6: | John Horsey | ||||||||
Monarch6: | Elizabeth I | ||||||||
Chancellor6: | Sir Nicholas Bacon | ||||||||
Predecessor6: | Thomas Howard | ||||||||
Successor6: | John Stroke | ||||||||
Constituency6: | Dorset | ||||||||
Birth Name: | William Paulet | ||||||||
Resting Place: | St. Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire | ||||||||
Nationality: | English | ||||||||
Spouse: | Anne Howard | ||||||||
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 | ||||||||
Parents: | John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (father) Elizabeth Willougby (mother) | ||||||||
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William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester (– 24 November 1598) was an English nobleman, the son of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester and his first wife, Elizabeth Willoughby. His maternal grandfather was Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke.
He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Mary I on 30 November 1553.
The offices he held during his career included:
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.
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:
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:
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.
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