John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester

John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester (c. 1510[1] – 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 of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester and Elizabeth Capel.[2][3]

The Most Honourable The Marquess of Winchester
Arms of Paulet, Marquess of Winchester: Sable, three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or
Governor of the Isle of Wight
In office 1558–1565
Monarch	Elizabeth I
Chancellor	Sir Nicholas Bacon (as Lord Keeper)
Preceded by	The Lord Cromwell
Succeeded by	Sir Edward Horsey
High Sheriff of Hampshire
In office 1533–1534
Monarch	Henry VIII
Chancellor	Sir Thomas Audley
Preceded by	John Kaleway
Succeeded by	Anthony Winsore
High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
In office 1543–1544
Monarch	Henry VIII
Chancellor	Sir Thomas Audley
Preceded by	Hugh Paulet
Succeeded by	John Horsey
Personal details
Born	John Paulet c. 1510
Died	4 November 1576 (aged 65–66) Chelsea, London
Resting place	St Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire 51.271389°N 1.046667°W
Nationality	English
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Willoughby (before 1536) Elizabeth Seymour (1554–1568) Winifred Brydges
Children	William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester George Paulet Thomas Paulet Richard Paulet Elizabeth Paulet Mary Paulet
Parents	William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester (father) Elizabeth Capel (mother)
The 2nd Marquess of Winchester 2nd Marquess of Winchester Tenure 1572-1576 Predecessor William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester Successor William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester Other titles 2nd Earl of Wiltshire 2nd Baron St John

Career

John Paulet was knighted by Henry VIII at Boulogne on 30 September 1544.[4][5] After the death of Edward VI he was (with his father) one of the signatories to the settlement of the Crown on Lady Jane Grey of 16 June 1553, although he later changed his allegiance to Queen Mary. He was styled Lord St John from 1550 to 1572. He was summoned to Parliament on 3 October 1554 in one of his father's baronies as Lord St John. He was one of the Peers at the trial of the Duke of Norfolk on 16 January 1572. He succeeded his father as Marquess of Winchester on 10 March 1572.[3]

The offices he held during his career included:[3][6]

• High Sheriff of Hampshire 1533–34
• High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset 1543–44
• Steward of Canford castle 1549/50
• Constable of Corfe Castle 1549/50
• Lord Lieutenant of Dorset 1557
• Governor of the Isle of Wight 1558
• Keeper of St Andrew's Castle, Hamble 1572–1576

Marriages and issue

Paulet was married three times:[3][7]

• He married as his first wife, by 20 October 1528,[8] Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby de Broke by his second wife, Dorothy, daughter of Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, and by her had four sons and two daughters:[9]

• William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester (c. 1532 – 24 November 1598)[8]
• George Paulet
• Richard Paulet
• Thomas Paulet
• Elizabeth Paulet, married firstly Sir William Courtenay of Powderham and secondly Sir Henry Ughtred
• Mary Paulet (died 10 October 1592), married Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell

• He married secondly, between 10 March and 24 April 1554, Elizabeth Seymour, daughter of Sir John Seymour and Margery Wentworth, and widow of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell.[10]
• He married thirdly, before 30 September 1568, Winifred, widow of Sir Richard Sackville, and daughter of John Brydges, a former Lord Mayor of London.[11] He succeeded his father as Marquess of Winchester in 1572.[3]

Death

John Paulet died at Chelsea on 4 November 1576 and was buried in St. Mary's Church, Basing, Hampshire.[3] His widow, Winifred, died at Chelsea in 1586 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.[3]

References

1. Faris 1999, p. 269.
2. Tait 1895, pp. 92–94.
3. Cokayne VIII 1898, p. 173.
4. Metcalfe 1885, p. 81.
5. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, 19(2), 334.
6. Cokayne XII(II) 1959, pp. 762–764.
7. Cokayne III 1913, p. 558.
8. Mosley 1 2003, p. 1124.
9. Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry III 2011, p. 311: "His wife, Elizabeth, presumably died before 4 April 1552."
10. Faris 1999, p. 269.
11. Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry III 2011, p. 311.

Bibliography

• Cokayne, G. E. (1913). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. III. London: St. Catherine Press.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1959). White, Geoffrey H. (ed.). The Complete Peerage, or a History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times. XII(II). London: St Catherine Press.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1898). Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant. VIII. Exeter: William Pollard.
• Faris, David (1999). Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists: The Descent from the Later Plantagenet Kings of England, Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, and Edward III, of Emigrants from England and Wales to the North American Colonies Before 1701 (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 0880821078.
• "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 May 2014.
• Metcalfe, Walter C. (1885). Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor. London: Mitchell and Hughes.
• Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. 1 (107th ed.). Wilmington: Burke's Peerage & Gentry LLC. ISBN 0971196621.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. III (2nd ed.). CreateSpace. ISBN 1461045207.
• Tait, James (1895). "Paulet, William (1485?-1572)" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 44. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 92–94.

External links

• John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester at Find a Grave
• Winchester, Marquess of (E, 1551) Cracroft's Peerage