England; Hampshire, Dorset and London
Winchester — William Paulet, 3rd Marquess and Howard-married continuation
- Family / house
- Paulet of Basing; Marquesses of Winchester; Howard of Effingham; Broughton
- Family / cadet branch
- Paulet of Basing; third-generation direct Winchester succession
- Armiger / bearer
- William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester, KB
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English peerage and heraldic tradition
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1576
- Until / superseded
- 24 November 1598
- Historical period
- Elizabethan
- Grant / record reference
- Inherited the Marquessate of Winchester in 1576; summoned in his father's Barony of St John in 1572
- Blazon
- Sable, three swords in pile, points in base Argent, pomels and hilts Or.
- Plain-English description
- Black with three silver swords arranged point-down in a pile and gold hilts and pommels.
- Tinctures
- Sable; Argent; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- three swords in pile
- Crest
- Falcon displayed Or, belled of the same and ducally collared Gules.
- Motto
- Aimez Loyaulté.
- Exterior ornaments
- Marquess's coronet; Winchester supporters, two purple hinds semée of estoiles and ducally gorged Or. Knight of the Bath ornaments are appropriate to his 1553 appointment.
- Difference / variant
- The principal arms remain undifferenced. His marriage to Anne Howard created important marital and genealogical connections but did not alter the paternal Paulet coat.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Marquess of Winchester
- Linked historical person
- William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester
- Mother
- Elizabeth Willoughby
- Spouse(s)
- Anne or Agnes Howard
- Children / next generation
- William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester; Anne Paulet, later wife of Sir Thomas Denys; Katherine Paulet, later wife of Sir Giles Wroughton; Elizabeth Paulet, later wife of Sir Edward Hoby; Recognised natural children by Jane Lambert, including Sir William Paulet, Sir John Paulet and Sir Hercules Paulet
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
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