Biography of John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester 1598-1675

On 28th February 1587 [his father] William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester [aged 28] and [his mother] Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester were married at St Martin in the Fields Church [Map]. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Thomas Cecil 1st Earl Exeter [aged 44] and [his grandmother] Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter [aged 39]. He the son of William Paulet 3rd Marquess Winchester [aged 55] and Agnes Howard Marchioness Winchester [aged 52]. They were half fourth cousins.

Around 1598 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester was born to William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester [aged 39] and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester.

On 24th November 1598 [his grandfather] William Paulet 3rd Marquess Winchester [aged 66] died. His son [his father] William [aged 39] succeeded 4th Marquess Winchester, 4th Earl Wiltshire, 4th Baron St John. [his mother] Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester by marriage Marchioness Winchester.

In October 1614 [his mother] Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester died.

Letters of John Chamberlain Volume 2.315. [30th January 1619] On Wensday divers were censured in the Star-chamber for building contrarie to the Kings proclamation; which was so far inforct that the Lord Cheife Justice [aged 56] saide that yt was in effect, and had the nature of an act of parliament: they were fined at a yeares true valew, and to pull downe theyre houses, or els to build them anew according to order: now that these have led the daunce, all the rest that have built since the first proclamation must follow, or compound, which wold prove too great a matter to graunt my Lord of Arundell (who is saide to have the penaltie) though he have need of yt. The same day there was some entrance into the Lady of Excesters busines and order taken to abbreviat and cut of superfluous and impertinent matter and so make yt more fit for the Kings hearing, in which course there was some contesting twixt Sir Ed: Cooke, and the two Cheife Justices, [Henry Montagu 1st Earl Manchester and Henry Hobart 1st Baronet [aged 59]] who are still observ'd to incline to the other side: the Lady of Excester went that day to the Star-chamber accompanied by the countesses of Arundell and Bedford, and a comitiva of I know not how many Ladies more to the number of almost thirty coaches, but whether she appeared in the court or no I cannot certainly learne. Secretarie Lake and his followers continue still confident, and some say the Lady Roos [aged 19] was there likewise with her litle troupe: the speach goes that she is to marrie with the Lord John Pawlet [aged 21] another grand-child of the [his grandfather] earle of Excesters [aged 76], and heire in apparance to the marquis of Winchester.

On 18th December 1622 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 24] and Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester were married. She the daughter of Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage [aged 36] and Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 41]. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester [aged 63] and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester. They were fourth cousins.

Before 1626 [his brother-in-law] John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 22] and Catherine Parker [aged 28] were married. He the son of [his father-in-law] Thomas Savage 1st Viscount Savage [aged 39] and [his mother-in-law] Elizabeth Darcy 1st Countess Rivers [aged 44].

On 4th November 1626 Thomas Darcy 1st Earl Rivers [aged 61] was created 1st Earl Rivers with a special remainder to his grandson [his brother-in-law] John Savage 2nd Earl Rivers [aged 23]. Mary Kitson Countess Rivers [aged 59] by marriage Countess Rivers.

On 4th February 1629 [his father] William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester [aged 70] died. His son John [aged 31] succeeded 5th Marquess Winchester, 5th Earl Wiltshire, 5th Baron St John. [his wife] Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester by marriage Marchioness Winchester.

Around 1630 [his son] Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton was born to John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 32] and [his wife] Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester. He married (1) 28th February 1652 Christian Freschville, daughter of John Freschville 1st Baron Frescheville and Sarah Harrington, and had issue (2) 12th February 1655 his fourth cousin once removed Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester, daughter of Emanuel Scrope 1st Earl of Sunderland and Martha Jeanes, and had issue.

On 4th October 1633 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 35] and Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester [aged 28] were married. She by marriage Marchioness Winchester. She the daughter of Richard Burke 4th Earl Clanricarde 1st Earl St Albans [aged 61] and Frances Walsingham Countess Essex. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester.

Around 1650 to 1656 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 52] lived at 1 Great Piazza Covent Garden.

On 28th February 1652 Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton [aged 22] and Christian Freschville [aged 18] were married. He the son of John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 54] and Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester.

On 12th February 1655 Charles Paulet 1st Duke Bolton [aged 25] and Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester were married. She the illegitmate daughter of Emanuel Scrope 1st Earl of Sunderland and Martha Jeanes. He the son of John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 57] and Jane Savage Marchioness Winchester. They were fourth cousin once removed.

After 11th August 1662 [his son-in-law] John Belasyse 1st Baron Belasyse [aged 48] and Anne Paulett Baroness Belasyse were married. She the daughter of John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 64] and Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester [aged 57].

On 30th April 1669 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 71] and Isabella Stafford-Howard Marchioness Winchester were married. She by marriage Marchioness Winchester. She the daughter of William Howard 1st Viscount Stafford [aged 54] and Mary Stafford Countess Stafford [aged 49]. He the son of William Paulet 4th Marquess Winchester and Lucy Cecil Marchioness Winchester. They were third cousin twice removed.

On 5th March 1675 John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester [aged 77] died. His son Charles [aged 45] succeeded 6th Marquess Winchester, 6th Earl Wiltshire, 6th Baron St John. Mary Scrope 6th Marchioness Winchester by marriage Marchioness Winchester.

On 2nd September 1691 [his former wife] Isabella Stafford-Howard Marchioness Winchester died.

Cansisk's Monumental Inscriptions Volume 1 Old St Pancras Churchyard. Churchyard St Pancras Old Church [Map]. Here lyeth deposited in this vault the remains of the late Hon^ble Lady [his granddaughter] Barbara Webb, Wife of S^r [his grandson-in-law] John Webb [aged 85], of Great Canford, in the county of Dorset, Baronet Who departed this life on the 28^th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1740. This pious lady was the surviving daughter and sole Heiress of the late Right Hon^ble [his former son-in-law] John, Lord Belasyse, by his third wife the Lady Ann Powlett, Daughter of the Right Noble John, Marquiss of Winchester, who to avoid the expense and vanity of a pompous funeral in her family vault made it her death bed request in compassion to the poor to be privately interred in this churchyard & that the repose of her soul may be remembered by all good Christians. This tomb was erected by her disconsolate husband. Requiescat in pace. Amen.

[his daughter] Anne Paulett Baroness Belasyse was born to John Paulet 5th Marquess Winchester and Honora Burke Marchioness Winchester. She married after 11th August 1662 John Belasyse 1st Baron Belasyse, son of Thomas Belasyse 1st Viscount Fauconberg and Barbara Cholmley, and had issue.