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Marquess of Winchester is a title in the Peerage of England that was created in 1551 for the prominent statesman William Paulet, 1st Earl of Wiltshire. It is the oldest of six surviving English marquessates; therefore its holder is considered the premier marquess of England.
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.
The Duke of Winchester was ‘the greatest landowner in England’ during the reign of ‘Richard IV’! Between 1385 and 1707, some 33 marquessates were created of which only six are extant. Some – like Tavistock and Bedford and Blandford and Marlborough – are subsidiary to the dukedom.
The marquessate of Winchester was created in 1551 in favour of William Paulet, or Pawlet, K.G., a successful courtier during four reigns, who died on the 10th of March 1572. It has descended in the male line of his family to the sixteenth possessor. John.
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.
Mar 10, 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 10th 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.
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At around the same time, he succeeded his father as Marquess of Winchester. In 1531 he was appointed surveyor-general of the possessions of royal wards and widows and idiots. He was later appointed master of the court of wards and liveries, enabling him to acquire a number of lucrative wardships.
