William Paget, 5th Baron Paget (13 September 1609 – 19 October 1678) an English

England

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 peer

Peerage

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 born at Beaudesert House

Beaudesert (house)

Beaudesert was an estate and stately home on the southern edge of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. It was one of the family seats of the Paget family, the Marquesses of Anglesey...

 Staffordshire, England to William Paget, 4th Baron Paget and Lettice Knollys.

Career

He was a Parliamentarian

Parliament of England

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 with land in Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire

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 at the outbreak of the English Civil War

English Civil War

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, he was made the Parliamentarian Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire

Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire

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 in 1641. However the following year he swapped sides to become a Royalist

Cavalier

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 under King Charles I

Charles I of England

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 and so was dismissed from that role and replaced by Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton

Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton

Philip Wharton, 4th Baron Wharton was an English peer.A Parliamentarian during the English Civil War, he served in various offices including soldier, politician and diplomat. He was appointed as the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire by Parliament in July 1642...

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Family

On 28 June 1632 Paget married Lady Frances Rich, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland was an English aristocrat, courtier and soldier.-Life:He was the son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and of Penelope Devereux, Lady Rich, and the younger brother of Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick...

 and Isabel Cope

Isabel Campbell, Countess of Holland

Isabel Campbell , Countess of Holland was an English noblewoman, born in London, Middlesex, England, to Sir Walter Cope and Dorothy Grenville. Isabel married Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland in 1616. Henry was the son of Robert Rich, 1st Earl of Warwick and Lady Penelope Devereaux...

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William and Frances had ten children:

1. William Paget, 6th Baron Paget
   William Paget, 6th Baron Paget
   William Paget, 6th Baron Paget was an English peer and Ambassador.Paget was English ambassador to Vienna between 1689 and 1692 and Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople between 1692 and 1702, during which time he was central to the negotiation of the Treaty of Carlowitz between the...
   
    (10 February 1637 – 25 February 1713) married (1) Frances Pierrepont (2) Isabella Irby
2. Henry Paget (born c. 1643) married (1) 29 March 1684 Mary O'Rorke, daughter of Hugh O'Rorke and Joan Reynolds, (2) Mary or Anne Sandford, or vice-versa, and had by Mary O'Rorke:
   1. Brigadier General Thomas Paget, Governor of Minorca
      Minorca
      Min Orca or Menorca is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea belonging to Spain. It takes its name from being smaller than the nearby island of Majorca....
      
       (died 1741), married Mary Whitcombe; their daughter Caroline Paget (died 7 February 1766) married in 1737 Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
      Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
      Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet , was a British landowner and Member of Parliament.-Background and education:Bayly was the eldest son of Sir Edward Bayly, 1st Baronet, and Dorothy, daughter of the Hon. Oliver Lambart. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin...
      
      
3. Thomas Paget (born c. 1645)
4. Isabella Paget (born c. 1647)
5. Lettice Paget (born c. 1649) married Richard Hampden
6. Elizabeth Paget (born c. 1651)
7. Frances Paget (born c. 1653) married Rowland Hunt
8. Penelope Paget (born c. 1655) married Philip Foley
9. Diana Paget (born c. 1657 died 1707) married Henry Ashhurst
10. Anne Paget (born c. 1659)