Mary Paulet

Mary Paulet
Spouse(s)	Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell
Issue Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell Katherine Cromwell
Noble family	Paulet
Father	John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester
Mother	Elizabeth Willoughby
Born	c. 1540
Died	10 October 1592 (aged 51–52)
Buried	Launde Abbey, Leicestershire 52°37′52″N 0°49′23″W / 52.631111°N 0.823056°W

Mary Paulet (c. 1540^[1] – 10 October 1592) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester of Basing, Hampshire and his first wife Elizabeth Willoughby.^[2]

Marriages and issue

Mary Paulet married, before 1560, Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell, (1538 – 20 November 1592), the son of her father's second wife Elizabeth Seymour and her second husband Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell, and had issue:^[2][3][4]

• Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell, (c. 1560 – 27 April 1607), married firstly, Elizabeth Umpton (died 1592/3), of Puslinch, Devon and secondly, Frances Rugge, (died 1631) of Felmingham, Norfolk, by whom he had a son, Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Ardglass and two daughters, Frances and Anne. He served with the Earl of Essex in the expedition against Spain and was knighted by him in Dublin 12 July 1599.^[2][5][6][7]
• Katharine Cromwell (c. 1562 – 24 March 1620), married on 10 February 1580/1581 at North Elmham, Norfolk, Sir Lionel Tollemache, 1st Baronet, of Helmingham, Suffolk on 22 May 1611 (14 December 1562 - bet. 1617 and 1621), son of Sir Lionel Tollemache and Susan Jermyn. They had a son, Sir Lionel Tollemache, 2nd Baronet.^[8][9]

Death

Mary died at North Elmham, Norfolk, 10 October 1592, and was buried, on 23 October, at Launde Abbey, Leicestershire.^[2] Henry Cromwell died soon after his wife, on 20 November at North Elmham, Norfolk, 1592 and was buried, on 4 December, at Launde Abbey.^[2][10]

References

1. "Sir John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, 2nd Lord St. John, Sheriff of Hampshire, Somersetshire, & Dorsetshire". Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins. Our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
2. Cokayne III 1913, p. 558.
3. "Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 8 December 2013. Several sources, including Richardson, list a son, Sir Gregory Cromwell, of Huntingdonshire, who was knighted in 1603 and who would have been born before 1582. This Sir Gregory Cromwell is very likely to be a younger son, or grandson, of Henry Williams (alias Cromwell), a descendant of Richard Williams (alias Cromwell), who lived in Huntingdonshire.Metcalfe 1885, p. 140
4. "John Paulet". Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry Families with Extended Lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
5. Burke 1831, pp. 152–153
6. Shaw II 1906, p. 96
7.  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Cromwell, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 151.
8. Cokayne I 1900, p. 18.
9. "Katherine Cromwell". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
10. Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry I 2011, p. 605.

Bibliography

• Burke, John (1831). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of The Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley.
• "Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office: Elizabeth [I] London: H.M.S.O., 1939-". Hathitrust. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
• Cokayne, G. E. (1900). Complete Baronetage I. Exeter: William Pollard & Co.
• 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.
• Bindoff, S. T. (1982). "CROMWELL, Thomas (by 1485-1540), of London". In Bindoff, S. T. Members. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• "Edward [Cromwell], 3rd Baron Cromwell". Cracroft's Peerage. Cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• Hawkyard, A. D. K. (1982). "CROMWELL, Gregory (by 1516-51), of Lewes, Suss.; Leeds Castle, Kent and Launde, Leics.". In Bindoff, S. T. Members. The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• "Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• "John Paulet". Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry Families with Extended Lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 September 2013.
• "Katherine Cromwell". The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• "Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, vol. 16, 379-34, December 1540". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
• "Mary Paulet". Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry Families with Extended Lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
• Metcalfe, Walter C. (1885). A Book of Knights Banneret, Knights of the Bath, and Knights Bachelor. London: Mitchell and Hughes.
• Noble, Mark (1784). Memoirs of Several Persons and Families Who, by Females are Allied to, or Descended from the Protectorate-House of Cromwell. Birmingham: Pearson and Rollason.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families II (2nd ed.). CreateSpace. ISBN 1461045207.
• Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G., ed. Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families I (2nd ed.). CreateSpace. ISBN 1461045134.
• Shaw, William A. (1906). The Knights of England II. London: Sherrat and Hughes.
• "Sir John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, 2nd Lord St. John, Sheriff of Hampshire, Somersetshire, & Dorsetshire". Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins. Our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
•  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Cromwell, Edward". Dictionary of National Biography 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 151.
• Venn, John (1922). Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Wood, Mary Anne Everett (1846). Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies II. London: Henry Colburn.

External links

• Mary Paulet Family tree
• Katharine Cromwell Portrait by Robert Peake, 1581
• Media related to Launde Abbey at Wikimedia Commons