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3 days ago · The 2018 film, All is True, starring Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare and Ian McKellen as Shakespeare’s patron, the Earl of Southampton, purports to be a depiction of the Bard’s final years in Stratford following his retirement from the London stage.
3 days ago · See list. Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma [n 1] (25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979) was a British statesman, naval officer, colonial administrator and close relative of the British royal family. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent Battenberg family.
2 days ago · Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, and Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, in the year 1600, passed from the bar in Westminster Hall to dungeons in the Tower.
2 days ago · His army now was a veteran British force reinforced by units of the retrained Portuguese army. Campaigning in Spain, he was made Earl of Wellington in the county of Somerset on 22 February 1812. He routed the French at the Battle of Salamanca, taking advantage of a minor French mispositioning.
4 days ago · In 1547 the reversion was granted to Thomas Wriothesley, earl of Southampton (d. 1550) who was in possession in the following year.
4 days ago · Other references to the Earl include the area to the north across the bay (in what is now the Eastern Shore) which became known as Northampton, and an area south of the James River which became Southampton. As with Hampton, both of these names remain in use today.
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4 days ago · Southampton (Hamtun, Suhampton) superseded the Saxon Hamtun and was a royal borough before 1086. The earliest town charter was given by King Henry II, probably in 1154–55, but the borough was not incorporated until 1445. Henry VI, in 1447, created Southampton a county in itself.
