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 WINCHESTER. 171 27 Not. 1492, at Noire Dame in that oitj. M.L Hia widow d. 29 Aug. 1510, and waa bur, with bitn. M.I. V. 1492, 2, John (db Bruojes) Earl of Winchbbter, s. and Uy h. ; b, nhtnii 1457 ; kniyhUd by Uie Arobdiike Maximilian, 7 Aug. 1500. 1479, bif fore the battle of Qiiiiiegnte, where bo was taken priaoner by the French ; Cbaml)erlatn to the Duke of Auatria, and Cnatelain of Lille, 1483. Joining in the revolt of Qhent, July 1485, againat the Archduke, be waa fined 300,000 crowna and retired to France ; waa Seneschal of Anjon, 1484-98 ; tree, to the Engliah Earldom, 26 Nov. 1492, but waa generally known as "Sire de la Gruthuyae *' ; waa Qrnnd Maater of the Arbaldtriera in France, 1498 ; waa er. 23 May 1498, at the ooron. of Louia XII. of France, a Kmiobt op St. Miohabl of Frahoi ; Oapt. of the Oaatle of the Louvre at Paria, Jan. 1490/600. Between 8 May and 16 June 1500 he retigned the Earldom of IftncAeiter, to Henry VII., at CabiiB.(*) He waa Gov. of Picardy for the French 1502 till hia death, and waa alao Gov. of Abbeville. He m., firstly, in or ahortly before 1478» Mary, yr. da. and eventually heir of John, Sire and Ber d'Auxv, in Picardy, by Jane, da. and h, of John, Seignenr db Playt, alao in Picardy. She d, a. p.m. He m., secondly, contract 18 March 1479/80, lt«n6e, da. of Anthony, Seigneur DB BuKii^ Count ok Sancbhrb, by Jane, baatard da. (by Agnee SoRBL) of Charlks VII., Kino or Framcb. She d. a p. He m., thirdly, 30 Nov. 1505, Mary, da. of John DB Mblun, Seigneur d'Aiitoing and Eapinoy, MarabMl of Flandera, by Isabel, da. of Jacquea DK LuxBHBuna, Seigneur de Kichebourg. He d, at Abbeville in 1512, before 6 Sep., and was bur» in the abbey of St Riqnier in Ponthieu. M.I. Hia widow, by whom alone he had male iaaue,^^) m. Jacques Di Chabannks, Seigneur de la Palice, Marahal of France, and waa living, aa hia widow, Sep. 1586. HarquessaiA. i. " William, Earl of Wiltshirb," Baron [Dominus] T 1f)R1 ^' John, K.Q., High Trbabubbr or England,"(«} waa er., Paulbt, Pawlbtt, Poulbt, w Powlbtt waa a. and h. of Sir John PouLBT, K.B., of Baaing, co. Hanta,and of Nony, co. Someraet (living 1519), by Alice, or Elizabeth, da. of Sir William Poulbt, of H niton St. George, co. Someraet ; was b, probably about 1488-85 ;(*) waa Sheriff of Hanto, 1518, 1522 and 1527 ; knighted {^) "Cart, 12 Edw. IV. m. 3, No. 9, containa the grant of the Earldom to him [reetiu$ " to hia father "] and the heirs male of his body, and in the margin is Uie following note : Vacat irro^ iufrascr. q' I're inde paten, suraum reddite et restitute fuerunt ad manus D*ni nVi IL Henrici septimi apud Villam Calea anno regni auo zv*. ea intentione ut cnncellnnt*' ct dnmpnent^ Rt q'l're pMce aic ut p'mitMt*' aursuni reddite et reatituU*. cniionlUlMint*' et dnnipnnbant'. lo. irro^ infraaur. aimilit cancellat' dampnatr." [" 6ViiieAr)/xf."J (**) Ijoiiia de HriigcH, Sire du In Oriitlinyfw^, Prince of Stccnlinyae, &c., a. and h., d, num. 1528, and waa tue. by his only br. Ilen6, who m. Beatrix, da. of John, Count of la Chambre in Savoy, and d. at Bruges in 1572, leaving an onh- da. and h., Catherine, who m. no leas than five husbands, viz. (1) on 9 June 1574 (as hia second wife), Louis de la Baulme, dit de Corgeuon de Poupet, Count of St. Amour, Knight of the Order of Savoy, by whom she had iseue; (2) in 1615, Achille de THoapital, Baron of Cordouz ; (8) Cbarlea de Ble^aey, Seigneur de Montiuroient ; (4) Scipiou de Champier, Seigneur de St Hilaire ; (5) on 30 April 1621, Keui de la Haye, Seigneur de Key- seux. [Ex. iffurm,t O. W. Watson]. {*) ** Creatiotii, 1483-1646," in np. 47th Rep. D. K. Pub. Records. (*■) This waa the 11th Marqneasate that was created and became, 20 years after- warda, the premier eziating Marquessate. See vol. iii, p. 1 46, note " g,'* $ub Dorset. (®) Camden, however, 8<iys he was 97 at his death, which would place his birth, 1474-75. " He was descended from a younger house of the Pawleta in Hinton St Qeorge, in SomoraetRhire, as by the Crescent in his arms is acknowledged. Tliis liord bad the rare happini'ss of tvOataota^ setting in his full splendour, having lived 97 years, and seen 103 out of his body. He died A.D. 1572." In the " Ber, and Gen:* viii, 279 it is stated that *' it was once said by Sir R. Baker in lii« chronicle and by hia copyista that Sir William Powlet, the let Marquesa of Winchester had lived for more than 106 years and 3 quartera, but his age is more correctly stated at 97 by Camden, and by Fuller in his Worthiea:*
 * '*^** 11 Oct 1551, MARQUESS OF WINCH ESTKll.{«") Thia William