By the 1610s Gibbons had become a composer of high repute and perhaps the best organist in England. At around this time he became a close friend of Sir Christopher Hatton, who became an important patron of his. Hatton was the second cousin and heir of the more famous Christopher Hatton, favourite of Queen Elizabeth I of England. In fact, Hatton and his wife, Alice Fanshawe, were probably the namesakes of two of Gibbons's children, Alice and the future composer Christopher. The next years saw the publishing of various works by Gibbons, the first of which, his "First Set of Madrigals and Motets" was published in 1612 under the patronage of Hatton. One of the Madrigals in the set was renowned and probably the most famous English Madrigal, "The Silver Swan". Gibbons dedicated the entire set of works to Hatton and said that most of it was composed in Hatton's house: