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  Earl of Southampton - LoveToKnow 1911
EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, an English title borne by the families of Fitzwilliam and Wriothesley.
After the death of Lady Gainsborough the London property of the earl passed to her sister Rachel, wife of William, Lord Russell, the patriot, and later to the dukes of Bedford.
The barony of Southampton was created in 1780 in favour of Charles Fitzroy (1737-1797), a grandson of Charles Fitzroy, 2nd duke of Grafton, he being thus, like the holders of the dukedom of Southampton, descended from Charles II.
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 Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of Southampton - Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of c.1500-1550, lord chancellor of England.
Somerset, however, though he gave Wriothesley the earldom of Southampton, dismissed (1547) him from the lord chancellorship on the ground that he had delegated his legal duties without consulting the council.
Southampton's consequent grievance against Somerset led him to support John Dudley, earl of Warwick (later duke of Northumberland), in overthrowing the protector in 1549.
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 EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON - LoveToKnow Article on EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SOUTHAMPTON, EARL OF, an English title borne by the families of Fitzwilliam and Wriothesley.
For the career of the 1st earl see Lord Campbell, Lives of the Lord Chancellors; E. Foss, Judges of England; and the various state papers and letters of the reign of Henry VIII.
The barony of Southampton was created in 1780 ih favor of Charles Fitzroy (1737-1797), a grandson of Charles Fitzroy, 2nd duke of Grafton, he being thus, like the holders of the dukedorn of Southampton, descended from Charles II.
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 Thomas RADCLIFFE (3° E. Sussex)
Thomas Radcliffe probably received the greater part of his education in the household of Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester; there is no basis for the statement that he was at Cambridge and Gray's Inn.
It was to Wriothesley that he clearly owed his first office, the captaincy of Portsmouth, which he was to surrender after Wriothesley's death, and before accompanying the Marquess of Northampton on his mission to France in 1551.
He was preparing for a fresh attempt when he was superseded by the Earl of Kildare, who was commissioned by Elizabeth to open negotiations with O'Neill, the result of which was that the latter repaired to London and made formal submission to the Queen.
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 Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of Southampton --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of, Baron Wriothesley Of Titchfield...
"Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of, Baron Wriothesley Of Titchfield." Encyclopædia Britannica.
Thomas Sackville, the 1st earl of Dorset, and an English statesman, poet, and dramatist, is remembered largely for his share in two achievements of significance in the development of Elizabethan poetry and drama: the collection Mirror for Magistrates (1563), probably the most important work between the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser, and the...
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 Thomas WRIOTHESLEY (1° E.Southampton)
Nephew and namesake of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King of Arms, the principal officer of the College of Arms, from 1505-34.
Southampton’s consequent grievance against Somerset led him to support John Dudley, Earl of Warwick (later Duke of Northumberland), in overthrowing the protector in 1549, but he had not regained his former position.
Beaulieu was owned by the Wriothesley family for 129 years, yet their influence on the Estate was slight; it was regarded as a source of income, not a home.
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 Southampton — FactMonster.com
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 Biography of Edward VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry also appointed Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford to serve as Lord Protector of the Realm and Governor of the King's Person during Edward's minority.
The Council consisted of all the executors and assistants, except for Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (who, whilst serving as Lord Chancellor, had illegally delegated some of his powers to other officials) and Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.
The Duke of Somerset became extremely unpopular, and was deposed by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick.
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 Southampton Thomas Wriothesley 4th Earl Of: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
SOUTHAMPTON, THOMAS WRIOTHESLEY, 4TH EARL OF 1607–67, English nobleman; son of the 3d earl.
...murdered in January 1558; 7 and Thomas Grey, born 11 April 1549, son of the Sir Ralph Grey of Heton...included Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex wardship 1576 87 ; Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton wardship late 1581 or early...
Thomas Osborne, earl of Danby, became chief minister on the disintegration...
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Early in this year, or possibly while Southampton was still at Cambridge, Burghley had opened negotiations with the Countess of Southampton with the object of uniting the interests and fortunes of her son with his own house, by a marriage with his own granddaughter, Lady Elizabeth Vere, daughter of the Earl of Oxford.
Thomas Wriothesley, 4th earl of Southampton, 1607–67, son of the 3rd earl.
Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu, by Closterman ;
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 Edward VI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Henry also appointed Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford to serve as Lord Protector of the Realm and Governor of the King's Person during Edward's minority.
The Council consisted of all the executors and assistants, except for Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (who, whilst serving as Lord Chancellor, had illegally delegated some of his powers to other officials) and Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset.
The Duke of Somerset became extremely unpopular, and was deposed by John Dudley, 1st Earl of Warwick.
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 thePeerage.com - Francis Edward James and others
     Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton was born on 21 December 1505.
He was the son of William Wriothesley and Agnes Drayton.
She married Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, son of William Wriothesley and Agnes Drayton, before 1533.
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 Edward VI
Henry VIII also appointed Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford to serve as Lord Protector of the Realm and Governor of the King's Person during Edward VI's minority.
The Duke of Somerset became extremely unpopular, and was deposed by John Dudley, Earl of Warwick.
The rise of the Earl of Warwick was accompanied by the fall of Catholicism in England.
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 CATHERINE PARR FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal in the Lake_District, and his wife, Maud Green.
After his death, the rich widow began a relationship with Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the king took a liking to her, and she was obliged to accept his proposal instead.
Then, Thomas Seymour was alleged to have taken liberties with the teenaged Princess Elizabeth, who was living in their household, and he reputedly intrigued to marry his wife's stepdaughter.
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 Edward VI & Somerset
The indications that the harvest of 1549 would be as poor as that of 1548 increased the problems of inflation and helped spark the rebellions that began in the Spring of that year and continued throughout the summer.
In Sussex, the public appearance of a nobleman (the Earl of Arundel) was sufficient to subdue the rebels.
Somerset was brought down by an alliance between the conservatives (led by Thomas Wriothesley (1st earl of Southampton)) and a smaller group of Protestants, led by Dudley.
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 Other Buccleuch Houses
Beaulieu was acquired by Sir Thomas Wriothesley, later 1st Earl of Southampton in 1538, who created a modest manor house, which was rebuilt in the early eighteenth century.
This was occupied by Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu in his official capacity as Master of the Wardrobe to Charles II and William III.
One manor of Hemington was purchased by Thomas Montagu, the father of the 1st Sir Edward Montagu, in 1486.
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 AllRefer.com - Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Southampton, Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of c.1500–1550, lord chancellor of England.
For his efforts in negotiating an alliance with Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, he was created (1544) Baron Wriothesley and made lord chancellor : an office in which he became notorious for his severity.
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 EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON - Online Information article about EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON
Thomas Wriothesley (1505-1550) was created earl of Southampton.
The 3rd earl was succeeded by his son Thomas (1607—1667) as 4th earl.
Grafton, he being thus, like the holders of the dukedorn of Southampton, descended from Charles II.
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 Catherine Parr information - Search.com
After his death, the rich widow began a relationship with Thomas Seymour, the brother of the late queen Jane Seymour, but the king took a liking to her, and she was obliged to accept his proposal instead.
Thanks to her uncle having been appointed as member of her regency council, and to the sympathies of fellow appointed councillors Thomas Cranmer and the Earl of Hertford, Catherine obtained effective control and was able to rule as she saw fit.
She was reformist enough to be viewed with suspicion by Catholic and anti-Protestant officials such as Bishop Stephen Gardiner and Chancellor Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton who tried to turn the king against her in 1546.
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 Edward VI Of England Information - Articles Free   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The executors were all inclined towards religious reformation, whose most prominent opponents, Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Stephen Gardiner (the Bishop of Winchester) and Thomas Thirlby (the Bishop of Westminster), were excluded.
Another powerful influence on Edward VI was Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury.
His brother, Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, the Lord High Admiral, had hatched a plot to depose him.
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 Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Henry Wriothesley succeeded to his father's earldom in 1581 and became a royal ward under the care of Lord Burghley.
"Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of, Baron Wriothesley Of Titchfield." Encyclopædia Britannica.
Selcted Poetry of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
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Thomas Wriothesley (1505-1550) becomes one of the principal Secretaries of State of King Henry VIII and is knighted
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, removed from office as Lord Chancellor (1544-) and from the Privy Council for the offence of appointing four persons to relieve him of his duties as Lord Chancellor; succeeded as Lord Chancellor by William Paulet, Baron St John, (Keeper of the Great Seal)
1616), 1st Duke of Bedford, KG PC; succeeded as 2nd Duke of Bedford and 2nd Baron Howland of Streatham by his grandson Wriothesley Russell (1680-1711), Marquess of Tavistock; suceeded as Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire, Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, and Lord Lieutenant of Middlesex by Lord Edward Russell (c.
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 Micheldever
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton and Lord Chancellor of England, gets village and rebuilds church, using stone from Hyde Abbey for the tower.
Thomas 3rd Earl of Southampton is a patron of some writer chap called William Shakespeare.
Although the village is not on a direct line between London and Southampton, the railways owners chose the route because they hoped the Basingstoke-Andover line (opened 1854) could be extended to the rich port of Bristol (it wasn't).
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 Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (22 January 1826 - 15 November 1904), English statesman, eldest son of the 1st Baron, was educated at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honors in 1846.
He had recommended the conclusion of arrangements with Sher Ali which, as has since been admitted, would have prevented the Second Afghan War ; but his policy was overruled by the Duke of Argyll, then Secretary of State.
He was created Viscount Baring of Lee in the county of Kent and Earl of Northbrook in the county of Southampton.
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 Bloomsbury on GlobalGuide.Org, mapping the world
While Bloomsbury was not the first area of London to acquire a formal square, Southampton Square (now named Bloomsbury Square), which was laid out by Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton in 1660, was the first square to actually be named as such.The London Encyclopaedia, Edited by Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert.
In the 16th century, with the Dissolution of the Monasteries, King Henry VIII took the land back into the possession of the Crown, and granted it to Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton.
In the early 1660s, the Earl of Southampton constructed what was eventually to become Bloomsbury Square.
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 Elizabethan Sumptuary Statutes
lucernes; embroidery or tailor's work having gold or silver or pearl therein: except dukes, marquises, earls, and their children, viscounts, barons, and knights being companions of the Garter, or any person being of the Privy Council.
Velvet in gowns, coats, or other uttermost garments; fur of leopards; embroidery with any silk: except men of the degrees above mentioned, barons' sons, knights and gentlemen in ordinary office attendant upon her majesty's person, and such as have been employed in embassages to foreign princes.
Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1530, courtesy Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits.
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 Beaulieu
Formerly the 14th century Great Gatehouse of Beaulieu Abbey, Palace House is set in glorious grounds and gardens with immaculate spreading lawns and walkways overlooking the Beaulieu River.
The House has been in Lord Montagu's family ownership since 1538, when Sir Thomas Wriothesley, later 1st Earl of Southampton, bought the Estate after the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
The Domus, once the lay brothers' refectory, houses an exhibition of monastic life prior to the Abbey's purchase by Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton in 1538.
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 MICHAEL SCHUYLER
This fellow is Ralph, 1st Duke of Montagu (1638-1709) who was an ambassador to France.
Beaulieu is one of the few houses where you can take pictures inside, but the fact is, it is difficult to do so--it's pretty much a hit or miss operation.
Left small picture is Henry, 3rd Earl of Southampton (1573-1624) Above fireplace is Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (1573-1624) Small picture right of fireplace is King Charles II Corner Right is James, Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch Far Right is John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749) Below John is my wife, Carol.
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