Winifred Paulet (Brydges)

Winifred BRYDGES (M. Winchester)

Born: 1510, Dymocke, England

Died: 16 Jun 1586, Chelsea, Middlesex, England

Buried: 1586, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England

Father: John BRUGGE (Sir Knight Lord Mayor of London)

Mother: Agnes AYOLFFE

Married 1: Richard "Fill Sack" SACKVILLE (Sir Knight) ABT 1531, Dymocke, Gloucestershire, England

Children:

1. Thomas SACKVILLE (1° E. Dorset)

2. Anne SACKVILLE (B. Dacre of the South)

Married 2: William PAULET (1° M. Winchester)

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BRYDGES.htm#Winifred BRYDGES (M. Winchester)

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1510 Mar 19

Bradbury Sir John Brugge (Bruges), Draper Vintry 1510-5. Langbourn 1515-30.

Sheriff 1513-4. Mayor 1520-1.

Knighted 1521; M.P. London 1509-10; Auditor 1504-6, 1518-21; Master Drapers 1514-5, 1521-2, 1527-8. Died Oct 1530; Will (PCC 21 Jankyn) 8 Oct; proved 29 Oct 1530.

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His daughter Winifred married Sir Richard Sackville, by whom she was mother of Thomas Sackville, created Earl of Dorset (Lord High Treasurer and joint author of the first English tragedy, Gorboduc).

After Sackville's death she married the old Marquess of Winchester (Lord High Treasurer to three sovereigns), whose first wife had been the daughter of Sir William Capel (Mayor 1503-4, 1510).

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/aldermen_of_london.htm

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Winchester was still in harness when he died, a very old man, at Basing House on 10 Mar 1572. His tomb remains on the south side of the chancel of Basing Church. Winchester was twice married and lived to see 103 of his own descendants. His first wife was Elizabeth (d. 25 Dec 1558) daughter of Sir William Capel, Lord Mayor of London in 1503, by whom he had four sons: John, 2nd Marquis of Winchester; Thomas; Chidiock, Governor of Southampton under both Queens Mary and Elizabeth; Giles; and four daughters: Alice, Margaret, Margery and Eleanor; the last of whom married Sir Richard Pecksall, Master of the Royal Buckhounds, and died on 26 Sep 1558. By his second wife, Winifred, daughter of Sir John Brydges, Alderman of London, and widow of Sir Richard Sackville, Chancellor of the Exchequer, he left no issue. She died in 1586.

http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/WilliamPaulet(1MWinchester).htm

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Paulet was twice married, and lived to see 103 of his own descendants. His first wife was Elizabeth (d. 25 Dec 1558), daughter of Sir William Capel, Lord Mayor of London in 1503, by whom he had four sons: (1) John; (2) Thomas; (3) Chediok, governor of Southampton under Mary and Elizabeth; (4) Giles, and four daughters: Elizabeth, who married Edward Hoby in 1580 and died in 1581[1], Margaret, Margerie, and Eleanor, the last of whom married Sir Richard Pecksall, master of the buckhounds, and died on 26 Sept. 1558. By his second wife, Winifrid ( - 1586), daughter of Sir John Bruges, alderman of London, and widow of Sir Richard Sackville, under-treasurer of the Exchequer, he left no issue.