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William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester KG PC (c. 1483/1485 – 10 March 1572), styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1550 and 1551, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and statesman. Family origins and early career in Hampshire.
William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester KB JP (c. 1532 – 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 .
As master of the wards and (probable) custodian of Henry Weston, Paulet may have been responsible for the re-enfranchisement of Petersfield in 1547 when his younger brother George was sheriff of Hampshire.6. Paulet was an active member of the Lords, especially after he became lord treasurer.
10 de mar. de 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 10 th March 1572, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, nobleman and administrator William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, died at his home Basing House in Hampshire. He was said to be 97 years of age at his death.
Born by 1488 William Paulet was the eldest son of Sir John Paulet of Basing, Hampshire. He trained as a lawyer but spent little time at court, instead he rose to prominence as a bureaucrat. He was close to Thomas Cromwell, and was involved with reducing Catherine of Aragon’s household and persuading Princess Mary to renounce her title.
26 de nov. de 2008 · Sir William Paulet (c.1483-1572) is perhaps unique in his long public career at a time of great political and religious turmoil. He held positions under Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I, notably as one of the judges for the trials of Sir Thomas More and the alleged accomplices of Anne Boleyn.
scornful of fables posing as history.9 When George Paulet, the son of 8A briefe discourse of the lyfe and death of the late right high and honorable Sir William Pawlet knight, Lord Seint John, Erle of Wiltshire, Marquess of Winchester, knight of the honorable order of the Garter . . . (London, 1572). Paulet had control of some Broughton family ...
