Jane Fleetwood

His death, on 24 Nov. 1598, was the signal for his family to close in on Jane Lambert. Their Chancery action listed her misdeeds, making him ‘a stranger and enemy to gentlemen of account and his nearest kinsmen’; ‘procuring a preacher to write a book justifying the said lord marquess’ in leaving his wife and marrying Mistress Lambert; opposing the marriage of Paulet’s son to the daughter of Thomas Cecil; ‘planting her own brothers and her friends in all principal places about him that might fill his ears full of their conceits’; ‘not suffering his own kinsmen or well willers to have access’ and so on. The family believed that ‘when he grew near his death he lay in extreme torment’, and that he accused himself of being ‘the notablest beast that ever lived’. He repented, they thought, of his sins, declared that he had left his heir a poor house, ‘and in these passions died’, 24 Nov. 1598, appointing three of the Lamberts executors and principal beneficiaries of his will, which his own family then successfully contested.4

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William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester also had children with his recognised mistress Jane Lambert, who later married the much younger Sir Gerrard Fleetwood:[13][14]

1. Sir William Paulet, died 1628, lawyer, London, later of Edington, Wiltshire. High Sheriff of Wiltshire 1613, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Seymour
2. Sir John Paulet, lawyer, Winchester, married Elizabeth, daughter of John Stump
3. Sir Hercules Paulet, born 1574, married Bridgett, daughter of Sir Henry Gifford
4. Hector Paulet, born 1578, married Joan Butler
5. Susan or Susanna Paulet, married firstly Thomas Kirkby and secondly Launcelott Warnfford

He died on 24 November 1598 and was buried at Basing, Hampshire.[10] His widow, Anne Paulet, died on 18 November 1601.[10] The date of Jane Lambert's death is not recorded.

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• "Jane Lambert" in Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth-Century England (1984). Jane Lambert was the daughter of William Lambert of Hide Street, Winchester. She was the long-time mistress of William Paulet, 3rd marquis of Winchester (c.1532-November 24, 1598) and the mother of his four illegitimate sons, Sir William (d. March 3, 1628/9), Sir John, Sir Hercules (b.1574), and Hector (b.1578). Some genealogies also list a daughter, Susanna. They went by the surname Pawlett/Powlett/Poulet.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Paulet,_3rd_Marquess_of_Winch... cites
  • 13. Emerson, Kathy Lynn. "Jane Lambert". A Who’s Who of Tudor Women. Kateemersonhistoricals.com. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2013-12-19.
  • 14. Rylands, W. Harry, ed. (1913). "Pedigrees from the visitation of Hampshire made by Thomas Benolt, Clarenceulx a 1530 : enlarged with the vissitation of the same county made by Robert Cooke, Clarenceulx anno 1575 both which are continued with the vissitation made by John Phillipott, Somersett (for William Camden, Clarenceux) in a 1622 most part then don & finished in a 1634. As collected by Richard Mundy in Harleian ms. no. 1544". The Publications of the Harleian Society. London: Harleian Society. LXIV: 224. < Archive.Org >