Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget
Henry Paget, 2nd Baron Paget (c. 1539 – 28 December 1568) was an English MP and peer. Henry Paget was the eldest son of William Paget, 1st Baron Paget of Beaudesert, Staffordshire and his wife Anne Preston (d.1587), the daughter and heir of Henry Preston. He was knighted in 1553, and succeeded to the title at the death of his father in 1563. Paget was elected as Member of Parliament for Arundel in 1555 and for Lichfield in 1559 and 1563. Marriage and issue In 1567 Paget married Katherine Knyvet, sister of the courtiers Sir Henry Knyvet (1537?–1598) and Thomas Knyvet (1545/6-1622), 1st Baron Knyvet of Escrick, and daughter of Sir Henry Knyvet (died c. 1546) by Anne Pickering, the daughter of Sir Christopher Pickering of Killington, Westmorland. Before her marriage to Sir Henry Knyvet (died c. 1546), Katherine's mother, Anne Pickering, had been married to Sir Francis Weston (executed in 1536), and after Sir Henry Knyvet's death she married John Vaughan (d. 1577). Katherine Knyvet's grandfather, the courtier Sir Thomas Knyvet (c.1485–1512) of Buckenham, Norfolk, was Master of the Horse to King Henry VIII, and the husband of Muriel Howard (d.1512), daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk