page_title: Henry Ughtred
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Henry Ughtred / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: in the robes of the Order of the Garter. Arms quarterly of four: 1&amp;4: Cecil 2: A roundel between three towers triple towered (Caerlion) 3: Argent, a chevron between three chess rooks ermine (Walcot, an heiress of Heckington, as can be seen quartered by Heckington on the monument to Richard Cecil (husband of Jane Heckington) in Stamford Church).
context_page_description: Sir Henry Ughtred or Oughtred was an English Member of Parliament, a shipowner and shipbuilder during the reign of Elizabeth I. One of his ships, the Leicester sailed with Sir Francis Drake against the Spanish Armada. A wealthy landowner, Ughtred played an active role in the Plantations of Ireland and was knighted by the Lord Deputy in 1593. He was the son of Sir Anthony Ughtred and Elizabeth Seymour, sister to Jane, the third wife of Henry VIII. After 1557 he married Elizabeth, widow of Sir William Courtenay and daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester.
context_section_description: He married Elizabeth (d. 4 Nov. 1576), widow of Sir William Courtenay, who died on 29 September 1557, and daughter of John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester by his first wife, Elizabeth Willoughby. After his wife's death in 1576 Ughtred remarried, however the identity of his second wife remains a mystery.
  
  After the death of his step-father, John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester, in 1576, Ughtred was involved in a long-running and bitter dispute with his step-brother, William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester, who accused him, as an executor of his father's will, of maladministration of the property and failure to settle the claims of a number of tenants and servants.
  Paulet took the matter to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and in June 1582 Ughtred wrote to Lord Burghley, to defend himself, complaining of "hard words", which Burghley had used to him in the Star Chamber. He maintained that the Marquess's accusations were unjust and informed Burghley that he was now virtually a prisoner in his own house and that he had been engaged on the case for seven months, which had cost him over £1,000 to the great hindrance of his "private causes", and waste of precious time.  The following year he was imprisoned for several months in the Fleet over the same matter. Early in 1586 the dispute came before the House of Lords, where the question of the jointure of the Dowager Marchioness was examined, and Ughtred gave evidence about his executorship.  Paulet pursued the matter relentlessly for a number of years, and in 1596, out of malice, persuaded the Privy Council to dismiss Ughtred from the captaincy of Netley Castle on the ground that his long absence in Ireland had caused him to neglect his charge.
caption: William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley
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