Mary Paulet’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro English noblewoman
Is Noble 
From United Kingdom 
Type Royals 
Gender female
Death 10 October 1592
Family
Father: John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester 
Spouse: Henry Cromwell, 2nd Baron Cromwell 
Children: Edward Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell 

Mary Paulet (c. 1540 – 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.

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:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • ^ Cokayne III 1913, p. 558.
  • “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
  • “John Paulet”. Family Search: Community Trees. British Isles. Peerage, Baronetage, and Landed Gentry Families with Extended Lineage. Histfam.familysearch.org. Retrieved 21 September 2013. 
  • Burke 1831, pp. 152–153
  • Shaw II 1906, p. 96
  •  Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). “Cromwell, Edward”. Dictionary of National Biography. 13. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 151. 
  • Cokayne I 1900, p. 18.
  • “Katherine Cromwell”. The Peerage. Thepeerage.com. Retrieved 21 October 2013. 

Death

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

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