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unusual facts about Paston family



Charlotte Jemima FitzRoy

In 1672 she married William Paston, later the second Earl of Yarmouth — a member of the Paston family — and had issue.

Hellesdon

Hellesdon was one of several manors owned in the fifteenth century by Sir John Fastolf, the original of Shakespeare's Falstaff, and as with other of his properties, his death in 1459 led to something close to a private war between the Paston family and John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk for possession of it.

Nicholas Stone

A consistent private patron over a period of many years was Sir William Paston, who was modernizing his Elizabethan seat at Oxnead, Norfolk.


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Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend

The old Norfolk family of Townshend, to which he belonged, is descended from Sir Roger Townshend (d. 1493) of Raynham, who acted as legal advisor to the Paston family, and was made a justice of the common pleas in 1484.