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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 ...
Earl of Southampton was a title that was created three times in the Peerage of England. Its first creation came in 1537 in favour of the courtier William FitzWilliam . He was childless and the title became extinct on his death in 1542.
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton [a] (21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550 [3]), KG was an English peer, secretary of state, Lord Chancellor and Lord High Admiral. A naturally skilled but unscrupulous and devious politician who changed with the times, Wriothesley served as a loyal instrument of King Henry VIII in the latter's break with ...
Tarquin and Lucretia by Titian. The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Roman noblewoman Lucretia.In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in which he promised to compose a "graver labour".
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 English peer.
This letter was written by Southampton regarding one of his houses that was in need of repair, and as Eric Sams points out, it was written at a time when Southampton was the recipient of sonnets written by Shakespeare that contained imagery suggesting the young lord might consider repairing his house: "Seeking that beauteous roof to ruinate ...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is the standard name given to any volume containing all the plays and poems of William Shakespeare.Some editions include several works that were not completely of Shakespeare's authorship (collaborative writings), such as The Two Noble Kinsmen, which was a collaboration with John Fletcher; Pericles, Prince of Tyre, the first two acts of which were ...