Biography of Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester -1558

Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester was born to [her father] William Capell and [her mother] Margaret Arundell.

Before 1480 [her father] William Capell [aged 33] and [her mother] Margaret Arundell [aged 23] were married.

In 1503 William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 20] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester were married.

In 1503 [her father] William Capell [aged 57] was appointed Lord Mayor of London.

Around 1510 [her son] John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester was born to [her husband] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 27] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. He married (1) before 20th October 1528 his half fifth cousin Elizabeth Willoughby, daughter of Robert Willoughby 2nd Baron Willoughby 10th Baron Latimer and Dorothy Grey Baroness Mountjoy, Willoughby and Latimer, and had issue (2) March 1554 his fifth cousin Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham (3) before May 1571 Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester, daughter of John Brydges and Agnes Ayloffe.

In 1515 [her father] William Capell [aged 69] died. He was buried at St Bartholomew by the Exchange Church.

Around September 1515 [her son] Thomas Paulet was born to [her husband] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 32] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.

On 8th December 1519 [her mother] Margaret Arundell [aged 63] died.

In or before 1520 [her son] Chideok Paulett was born to [her husband] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 36] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. He married (1) 1535 Elizabeth White and had issue (2) 1562 his fourth cousin once removed Frances Neville, daughter of Edward Neville and Eleanor Windsor Baroness Scrope Masham.

Before 20th October 1528 John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 18] and Elizabeth Willoughby were married. He the son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 45] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. They were half fifth cousins. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

In 1535 Chideok Paulett [aged 15] and Elizabeth White were married. He the son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 52] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 10th February 1553. The x day of January [Note. Probably February] rod my lade Mare('s) [aged 36] grasse from Saynt [John's] and thrugh Flettstrett unto the kyng at Westmynster, with a grett nombur of lords and knyghtes, and alle the [great] women lades, the duches of Suffoke [aged 35] and Northumberland [aged 44], my lade marqwes of Northamptun [aged 26], and lade marqwes of Wynchester, and the contes of Bedfford [aged 74], and the contes of Shrowsbere [aged 53], and the contes of Arundelle, my lade Clynton [aged 26], my lade Browne [aged 24] and Browne [sic in manuscript], and many mo lades and gentyllwomen; and at the oter gatt ther mett her my lord of Suffoke [aged 36] and my lord of Northumberland [aged 49], my [her husband] lord of Wynchester [aged 70], my lord of Bedfford [aged 68], and therle of Shrusbery [aged 53], the therle of Arundell [aged 40], my lord Chamburlayn, my lord Admerolle, and a gret nomber of knyghtes and gentyllmen, and so up unto the chambur of pressens, and ther the Kynges [aged 15] grace mett her and salutyd her.... owyn a-pon payne of presunmentt and a grett [penalty, as ye] shalle fynd in the actes in secund yere of kyng ... the perlementt tyme of the sayd yere, and nott to be ... plasse as taverns, alle-howses, ines, or wher ... for cummers and gestes, and has commandyd unto alle shreyffes and baylles, constabulls, justes of pesse, or any .. thay shall se truthe (and) justys as thay shalle [inform the] kyng and ys consell, and bryng them to pressun of ... sun or poyssuns as be the offenders ther off for ... her of odur.

Around March 1554 John Paulet 2nd Marquess Winchester [aged 44] and Elizabeth Seymour Baroness Cromwell Oakham [aged 36] were married. He the son of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 71] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. They were fifth cousins.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 4th August 1557. The iiij day of August was the masse of requiem for my lade prenses of Cleyff [deceased], and dowther to [William] duke of Cleyff [Note. Anne of Cleves was daughter to John de la Marck III Duke Cleves]; and ther my lord abbott of Westmynster [aged 42] mad a godly sermon as ever was mad, and [then] ... the byshope of London [aged 57] song masse in ys myter; [and after] masse my lord byshope and my lord abbott mytered dyd [cense] the corsse; and afterward she was caried to her tomb, [where] she leys with a herse-cloth of gold, the wyche lyys [over her]; and ther alle her hed offesers brake ther stayffes, [and all] her hussears [ushers] brake ther rodes, and all they cast them in-to her tombe; the wyche was covered her co[rps] with blake, and all the lordes and lades and knyghtes and gentyllmen and gentell-women dyd offer, and after masse agrett [dinner] at my lord (abbat's); and my lade of Wynchester was the cheyff [mourner,] and my lord admeroll [aged 47] and my lord Darce [aged 60] whent of ether syde of my lade of Wynchester, and so they whent in order to dinner.

Before 26th September 1558 [her son-in-law] Richard Pecshall and Eleanor Paulett were married. She the daughter of William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 75] and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.

On 26th September 1558 [her daughter] Eleanor Paulett died.

On 25th December 1558 Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester died.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 4th January 1559. The iiij day of Feybruary was cared in a charett with vj banerrolles, and a-for a grett baner of armes, and iiij baners of santtes, alle in owlle [oil], and thos iiij borne by iiij haroldes of armes in ther cott armurs, with a vijxx horsse, toward Bassyng to be bered ther; and ther was a goodly herse of wax; my lade marques of Wynchester was the lade; and at evere towne had money and torchys, master Garter, master Somersett, master Rychmond, master Lanckoster, and Bluwmantyll, and viij dosen penselles and viij dosen of skochyons.... of armes and iij dosen of skochyons.

Note. P. 188. Funeral of the marchioness of Winchester. "Lady Elsabeth late wyff to the right noble and puissant prynce William marques of Wynchester erl of Wylshire knight of the garter and lord treasorer of England, dyed on Crystmas day the xxv. of December 1558, and was beryed at Basyng on Sonday the 5. of February next foloinge." (MS. Harl. 897, f. 80.) She was the daughter of sir William Capel.

Henry Machyn's Diary. 7th February 1559. The vij day of Feybruary was bered my lade marques of Wynchester at Bassyng; and ther was a herse of wax, and viij dosen penselles, and armes, and skochyons, and garnyshed with angelles and archangells and with baner-rolles, and a x dosen skochyons; and ther was grett cher mad, and a grett dolle, boyth money and mett and drynke, and a grett dener, fysshe and flesse, and venesun.

On 10th March 1572 [her former husband] William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester [aged 89] died. On His son John [aged 62] succeeded 2nd Marquess Winchester, 2nd Earl Wiltshire, 2nd Baron St John. Winifred Brydges Marchioness Winchester by marriage Marchioness Winchester.

[her daughter] Eleanor Paulett was born to William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester. She married before 26th September 1558 Richard Pecshall.

[her son] Giles Paulett was born to William Paulet 1st Marquess Winchester and Elizabeth Capell Marchioness Winchester.