Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton KG (6 October 1573 – 10 November 1624), (pronunciation uncertain: "Rezley", "Rizely" (archaic), (present-day) and have been suggested), 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 frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare's Sonnets.
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6 October 1573 Midhurst, United Kingdom
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Died |
10 November 1624 (aged 51) Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands
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Zodiac | Libra |
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