Nazareth Newton


Nazareth or Nazaret Newton was a courtier and lady-in-waiting.
Nazareth Newton was the youngest daughter of Sir John Newton of East Harptree, Somerset, and Barrs Court, Gloucestershire, and Margaret, daughter of Sir Anthony Poyntz of Iron Acton 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 William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham, was a lady of the bedchamber.
She was a gentlewoman of the privy chamber to Queen Elizabeth in the 1560s.

Lady Southwell

Nazareth Newton was the third wife of Sir Thomas Southwell of Woodrising, Norfolk.
Their daughter Elizabeth Southwell was a Maid of Honour to Queen Elizabeth, "My Lady Newton having sought it for her daughter." She was a mistress of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex 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

Lady Paget

After Southwell's death, she married Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget, second son of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget and Anne Preston. They had a son, William Paget, 4th Baron Paget.
Paget dismissed her servants, and after other disputes they were formally separated in 1582. Gilbert Talbot wrote that Paget was an "evell husband" in 1573. Lady Paget lived at Woodrising until her death in 1583.