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Henry Wriothesley, born 6 October 1573 at Cowdray House, Sussex, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, by Mary Browne. She was the only daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague, and his first wife, Jane Radcliffe.
9 de abr. de 2024 · Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton (born October 6, 1573, Cowdray, Sussex, England—died November 10, 1624, Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands) was an English nobleman and William Shakespeare’s patron. Henry Wriothesley succeeded to his father’s earldom in 1581 and became a royal ward under the care of Lord Burghley.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
On 17 Nov. 1595 he distinguished himself in the lists set up in the queen's presence in honour of the thirty-seventh anniversary of her accession, and was likened by George Peel, in his account of the scene in his 'Anglorum Feriæ,' to Bevis of Southampton, the ancient type of chivalry.
Henry Wriothesley (1573–1624), third earl of Southampton, is best remembered today as a patron of William Shakespeare. In his youth, several other Elizabethan poets enjoyed his support and he was a significant figure in the cultural life of late sixteenth-century England.
3 de abr. de 2024 · This was Henry Wriothesley (1573–1624), 3rd Earl of Southampton, a courtier best known today as William Shakespeare's early patron and the rumoured inspiration behind the 'fair youth' and the 'master-mistress' of his sonnets.
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, was an English nobleman who would probably have been forgotten had he not been Shakespeare's patron.
Perhaps the most popular theory, this one points to the identity of the youth being Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. As one of Shakespeare’s patrons, Wriothesley helped Shakespeare, financially, to produce some of his works in the 1590s.
