Nazareth or Nazaret Newton (died 1583) was a courtier and lady-in-waiting. Nazareth Newton was the youngest daughter of Sir John Newton (d. 1568) of

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, Somerset, and Barrs Court, Gloucestershire, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz of

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and Elizabeth Huddesfield. At Harptree, the Newton family lived at Eastwood, a house built from the demolished stone of Richmont Castle. Her sister Frances Newton, who married

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, was a

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. She was a

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in the 1560s.

Lady Southwell

Nazareth Newton was the third wife of Sir Thomas Southwell (d. 1568) of

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. Their daughter, Elizabeth Southwell, was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth. She was a mistress of

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and mother of Walter Devereux. She married Sir Barentine Moleyns or Molyns of Clapcot. Their son was Michael Molyns. Thomas Southwell had married Margaret Jernegan, and secondly Mary Mansell, mother of his heir,

Robert Southwell (died 1598) Sir Robert Southwell (1563–1598), of Woodrising, Norfolk, Woodrising, Norfolk, was an English politician. Robert was the son of Thomas Southwell (died 1568), Sir Thomas Southwell and his second wife Mary, daughter of Sir Rice Mansel. Thomas's t ...

. In March 1571, Nazareth Southwell was given a gift of properties confiscated from John Eliot, a London merchant.

Lady Paget

After Southwell's death, she married Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget, second son of

William Paget, 1st Baron Paget William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert (15069 June 1563), was an English statesman and accountant who held prominent positions in the service of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I. He was the patriarch of the Paget family, whose descend ...

and Anne Preston. They had a son,

William Paget, 4th Baron Paget William Paget, 4th Baron Paget of Beaudesert (1572 – 29 August 1629) was an English peer and colonist born in Beaudesert House, Staffordshire, England to Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget and Nazareth Newton. His grandfather was William Page ...

. Paget dismissed her servants in 1573 after their marriage. Gilbert Talbot wrote that Paget was an "evell husband" after had he hired one of the servants, Margaret Butler, a "sober maiden" to be his wife Mary's servant. Following other disputes they were formally separated in 1582. Lady Paget lived at Woodrising until her death in 1583.Laura Oliver Miller, 'Nazaret Newton Southwell Paget', Carole Levin, Anna Riehl Bertolet, Jo Eldridge Carney, eds, ''A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen'' (Routledge, 2017), pp. 517-8.

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