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Quartered arms of Sir Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, KG: Quarterly of four: Azure, a cross or between four hawks close argent (Wriothesley); 2nd: Argent, a fret gules on a canton of the second a lion passant or (unknown); 3rd: Argent, five fusils conjoined in pale gules a bordure azure bezantée (unknown); 4th: Per pale indented gules and azure, a lion rampant or [1] Southampton's ...
Arms of Wriothesley: Azure, a cross or between four hawks close argent. Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (pronunciation uncertain: / ˈ r aɪ z l i / RYE-zlee (archaic), [1] / ˈ r ɒ t s l i / ROTT-slee (present-day) [1] and / ˈ r aɪ ə θ s l i / RYE-əths-lee [2] have been suggested) (24 April 1545 – 4 October 1581), was an ...
Henry Wriothesley (pronounced Risley) may refer to: Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton (1545–1581) Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624), patron of William Shakespeare
He is best remembered as a patron of William Shakespeare. ... Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624) James Wriothesley, Lord Wriothesley (1605–1624)
With his next discovery William Henry moved from mere forgery to original art. [11] Having learned—apparently from a chance remark by one of his father's friends rather than by research—that Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton had been Shakespeare's patron, he decided to create correspondence between them. [12] "Doe notte esteeme me ...
Support for the identification is drawn from several strands of evidence: The portrait descended in the Cobbe family together with a portrait of Shakespeare's patron, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton – the person most likely to have commissioned a portrait of Shakespeare – and they were inherited by Archbishop Cobbe through his cousin's wife, Southampton's great-granddaughter ...
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573–1624), courtier and literary patron, was born at Cowdray House on 6 October 1573. He was the third child and only surviving son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and his wife, Mary Browne, daughter of the first Viscount Montagu.
The portrait is thought to have belonged initially to Shakespeare's patron, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, and to have been copied by another artist who created the painting known as the Janssen portrait, which had already been claimed to depict Shakespeare.