Heraldic stained glass roundel, circa 1540, Mapperton Church, Dorset, showing the arms of William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, KG (c. 1483-1572), Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, circumscribed by the Garter. Seated at Basing Castle, Old Basing, near Basingstoke in Hampshire and at Nunney Castle in Somerset. Text by Maria Miller MP for Basingstoke, 2022[1]: In 1086 Basing was one of Hugh de Port's fifty-five lordships in Hampshire. It remained in the same family, and in the late twelfth century Adam de Port married Mabel St. John and their descendants took the name St. John. In 1347 Edmund St. John died and his heirs were his two sisters. In 1361 Isabel became sole heir. Her son Sir Thomas de Poynings succeeded to the manor in 1393. On his death in 1493 the barony of St. John fell into abeyance and his heirs were Constance, his granddaughter and wife of John Paulet; Alice, his sister and John Bonville, his nephew. A partition of the inheritance was made and Basing went to Constance and John Paulet. The Paulets continued to hold Basing, and in 1551 the barony of St. John was revived and John Paulet was created Marquess of Winchester.

Text from: History of Parliament, biog of POULETT (PAULET), John (1586-1649), of Hinton St. George, Som. and Clerkenwell, Mdx.[2] The Poulets of Hinton St George, Somerset, were Somerset residents from the early thirteenth century, but first sat in Parliament for Devon in 1385. A cadet branch which settled at Basing, Hampshire, rose under the Tudors to the Marquessate of Winchester.

Heraldry

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• 1: Sable, three swords pilewise points in base proper pomels and hilts or (Paulet)
• 2: Gules, three water bougets argent (de Ros/Roos of Gedney and Irton, Lincolnshire). Text from Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 44, Paulet, Amias (d.1538) by William Arthur Jobson Archbold[3] John Paulet (d. 1470?) of Nunney Castle in Somerset, had, by Eleanor Roos, daughter and coheiress of Robert Roos of Gedney and Irton, Lincolnshire, a son, Sir John Paulet (fl. 1500), who was a commander at the battle of Blackheath in 1497, and was made a knight of the Bath at the marriage of Prince Arthur on 14 Nov. 1501. He married Alice Paulet, daughter of Sir William Paulet of Hinton St. George, and by her had, among other children, William, Marquis of Winchester
• 3: Barry of six or and vert, a bend gules (Poynings)
• 4: Argent, on a chief gules two mullets or (St John)
• 5: Gules, two bends wavy argent
• 6: Barry of six argent and gules (Barry ? Canting arms of Barry of Winscott in the parish of St Giles-in the-Wood, Devon: Barry of six argent and gules (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.44). In the 16th century Winscott was the property of the Barry family, which according to the Devon historian Tristram Risdon (d.1640), who himself owned Winscott, was a branch of the ancient de Barry family (arms: Argent, three bars gemelle gules) which played a prominent role in the Norman conquest of Ireland under King Henry II (1154-1189) and was granted the titles Baron Barry in about 1261 and Viscount Buttevant (premier viscount in Ireland) in 1541.
• 7: Azure, a fess between three fleurs-de-lys or (Leicester/Leycester/Lacester of Westbury, Shropshire, Baron de Tabley; Whitehead of West Tytherly, Hampshire; Shelton/Skelton of Osmondthorpe; Hodnell, Hodvell, Hodwell, ; Hole, Hook, Hok; Kympton (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.II, London, 1874, p.754) See better image youtube video [4] 6:49
• 8: Argent, a fret sable (Vernon of Haddon, Derbyshire ?), seemingly with a canton of the last;
• 9: Argent, six martlets 3,2,1 (Dalamare/Delamore/de la More of Nunney Castle in Somerset, built in the 1370s by Sir John de la Mare, royal licence issued in 1373[5]) (Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.335; "Delamare", per Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.275). In 1415[] Nunney Castle was inherited by the Paulet family on marriage to the heiress of Dalamare.