Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
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1573 – 1624
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Who was Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton?
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, was the only son of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, and Mary Browne, daughter of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montagu. Shakespeare's two narrative poems, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, were dedicated to Southampton, who is generally identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
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- Born
- Oct 6, 1573
Midhurst - Also known as
- Henry, Earl of Southampton
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- Children
- Education
- St John's College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Died
- Nov 10, 1624
Bergen op Zoom
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on July 23, 2013
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