EARLS AND MARQUESSES OF See also:WINCHESTER
.
The See also:title of See also:earl of See also:Winchester was first See also:borne by Saier, or Seer, de See also:Quincy, who was endowed by See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:John on the 13th of See also:March 1207, with the earldom of Winchester, or the See also:county of See also:Southampton
.
Saier de Quincy was one of the twenty-five barons named to enforce the observance of the See also:Great See also:Charter
.
He served in the See also:Crusades at the See also:siege of See also:Damietta in 1219, and died soon after-wards, probably on the 3rd of See also:November of that See also:year
.
His second son See also:Roger de Quincy (c
.
1195–1264), who is said to have usurped the earldom during the See also:absence of his See also:elder See also:brother See also:Robert in the See also:Holy See also:Land, took See also:part in the struggle between See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. and the barons
.
He died without male issue in See also:April 1264, and the earldom reverted to the See also:crown
.
It was revived in 1322 in favour of See also:Hugh le See also:Despenser, favourite of King See also:Edward II., and was forfeited when he was put to See also:death by the barons as a traitor in 1326
.
In 1472 the title, together with a See also:pension of £200 a year from the customs of Southampton, but not the right of sitting in See also:parliament, was given by King Edward IV. to a Burgundian, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis de See also:Bruges, See also:lord of Gruthuyse and See also:prince of Steenhuyse, as a See also:reward for services rendered to himself while an See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile on the See also:continent
.
Louis de Bruges surrendered his patent to Henry VII. in 1499
.
The marquessate of Winchester was created in 1551 in favour of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Paulet, or Pawlet, K.G., a successful courtier during four reigns, who died on the loth of March 1572
.
It has descended in the male See also:line of his See also:family to the sixteenth possessor
.
John Paulet, 2nd See also:marquess (c
.
1517–1576), was summoned to parliament as See also:Baron St John during the See also:life of his See also:father, a distinction which was shared by his three immediate successors—William Paulet (c
.
1535–1598), William Paulet (c
.
156o–1628) and John Paulet (c
.
1598–1674)
.
See also:Charles Paulet, son and See also:heir of John Paulet, the eighth marquess, was created See also:duke of See also:Bolton, on the 9th of April 1689, and the marquessate of Winchester remained in connexion with the duchy of Bolton (q.v.) till the death of Harry Paulet, See also:sixth duke and See also:eleventh marquess, without male issue in See also:December 1794
.
There being no male representative of the See also:dukes of Bolton this title lapsed, but the marquessate of Winchester was inherited by See also:George Paulet (1722–1800), great-See also:grandson of Lord Henry Paulet (d
.
1672), second son of William, the See also:fourth marquess
.
On George's death on the 22nd of April ',Soo he was succeeded by his son Charles Ingoldesby See also:Burroughs-Paulet (1764–1843), who, in 1839, prefixed the name of Burroughs to his own by royal See also:licence
.
Upon his death on the 29th of November 1843, the title passed to his son John Paulet (1801–1887), fourteenth marquess, who was succeeded, on the 4th of See also:July 1887, by his son, See also:Augustus John Henry See also:Beaumont (1858–1899), officer in the See also:Guards, who was killed at Magersfontein during the See also:Boer See also:War on the 11th of December 1899, and was followed in the See also:peerage by his brother, Henry William Montague Paulet (b
.
1862)
.
Three of the marquesses of Winchester were men of See also:note
.
It is recorded of the founder of the family, William Paulet, that when asked how he had contrived to live through a See also:long See also:period of troubled times during four reigns, he replied that he came of the See also:willow and not of the See also:oak, onus sum e salice non ex quercu
.
This saying, repeated by See also:Sir Robert See also:Naunton in his Fragmenta See also:regalia, may possibly not have been due to the marquess himself, but if not it was well invented of a See also:man who passed through many dangers and always contrived to keep, or to improve, his places
.
He was the son of Sir John Paulet of Basing, near See also:Basingstoke in See also:Hampshire, and his wife Alice or See also:Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Paulet of See also:Hinton St George, See also:Somerset
.
The year of his See also:birth has been variously given as 1474 and 1485
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Between 1512 and 1527 he was several times See also:sheriff of Hampshire
.
He was knighted before 1525, and in that year became privy councillor
.
He was, henceforth, continually employed in the royal See also:household and on the See also:council, but his only military service was in the easy suppression of the See also:Pilgrimage of See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
Grace in 1536
.
In 1525 he was named See also:master of the wards and keeper of the king's widows and idiots, that is to say he had the lucrative See also:charge of persons of See also:property who were wards in See also:chivalry
.
He was a member of the See also:House of See also:Commons which
co-operated with the king in carrying out the separation of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church from See also:Rome between 1529 and 1536
.
He served on the courts which tried Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas More and See also:Anne See also:Boleyn, and he was employed to tell Catharine of See also:Aragon that she and her daughter were degraded from their See also:rank
.
It is characteristic of the type of man that he did his See also:work gently, and with a See also:constant recollection of the changes of See also:fortune
.
His See also:personal kindness to Anne Boleyn, which she acknowledged, no doubt stood him in See also:good See also:stead on the See also:accession of her daughter See also:Queen Elizabeth
.
In 1538 he was created Lord St John, and he was enriched by a See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of the lands of See also:Netley See also:Abbey, near Southampton
.
He was appointed lord steward of the household, and lord chamber-lain, and became a See also:knight of the garter in 1543
.
Henry VIII. named him one of the council of regency for his son Edward VI
.
During the reign of Edward VI., St John kept the favour both of the See also:Protector Somerset, who made him lord keeper of the great See also:seal, and of Somerset's enemy, the duke of See also:Northumberland, who kept him in See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office
.
He was created earl of See also:Wiltshire in 1550, and marquess of Winchester in 1551
.
On the death of Edward VI., he trimmed cleverly between the parties of See also:Lady Jane See also:Grey, and See also:Mary Tudor till he saw which was going to win, and then threw himself on the winning See also:side
.
He opposed Queen Mary's See also:marriage to See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip, prince of See also:Spain (Philip II.), till he saw she was set on it, and then gave his approval, for it was his See also:wise See also:rule to show just as much See also:independence as enhanced the merit of his obedience
.
He was lord treasurer under Mary, and kept his See also:place under Elizabeth, to whose ecclesiastical policy he gave his usual discreet opposition and final obedience
.
Winchester died at his house of Basing on the loth of March 1572
.
He had built it on so See also:grand a See also:scale that his descendants are said to have found it necessary to pull down a part
.
He married, first Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William See also:Capel, Lord See also:Mayor of See also:London, by whom he had four sons and four daughters, and then Winifred, daughter of Sir John Bruges, See also:alderman of London, and widow of Sir See also:Richard See also:Sackville, by whom he had no See also:children
.
It is said that one See also:hundred and three of his descendants were alive at the date of his death
.
His grandson, William Paulet, third marquess (c
.
1535—1598) was one of the See also:judges of Mary, queen of Scots, and author of a See also:book called The Lord Marquesses Idleness which contains a Latin See also:acrostic of extreme ingenuity on the words See also:Regina nostra Angliae
.
The fifth marquess, John Paulet (1628—1674), was a See also:Roman See also:Catholic
.
He lived much in retirement in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to be able to pay off debts See also:left by his father
.
He is remembered by the ardour and sincerity of his See also:loyalty to King Charles I
.
It is said that he caused the words " Aimez Loyaute " to be engraved on every See also:pane of See also:glass in his house of Basing
.
During the first See also:Civil War it was fortified for the king, and stood a See also:succession of sieges by the See also:parliamentary forces between 1643 and 1645
.
On the 14th of See also:October 1645, it was stormed by See also:Oliver See also:Cromwell
.
The marquess, who fought valiantly, told Hugh See also:Peters, See also:chaplain of the New See also:Model See also:Army of the parliament, who had the vulgarity to See also:crow over him, " That if the king had no more ground in See also:England but Basing House, he would See also:adventure as he did, and so maintain it to the utmost," fo- " that Basing House was called Loyalty." The house caught See also:fire during the See also:storm and was burnt down, the very ruins being carried away by order of the parliament
.
The marquess was imprisoned in the See also:Tower of London, but was finally allowed to See also:compound for his See also:estate; after the restoration of King Charles II. he was promised See also:compensation for his losses, but nothing was given to him
.
He died in See also:Englefield See also:Park on the 5th of March 1674
.
He was three times married, first to Jane, daughter of See also:Viscount See also:Savage, by whom he had one son; then to Honora de See also:Burgh, daughter of Richard, earl of St Albans and See also:Clanricarde, by whom he had four sons; and then to See also:Isabella See also:Howard, daughter of Viscount See also:Stafford
.
See See also:Doyle, See also:Official Baronage (London, 1886) ; and J
.
A
.
See also:Froude, See also:History of England (London, 1856-187o), for the first marquess; J
.
P
.
See also:Collier, See also:Bibliographical See also:Account of See also:Early See also:English Literature (London, 1865), for the second marquess; and See also:Clarendon, History of the See also:Rebellion (See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, 1886), for the fifth marquess
.
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