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Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton (21 December 1505 – 30 July 1550), 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 ...
9 de abr. de 2024 · Thomas Wriothesley, 1st earl of Southampton (born Dec. 21, 1505, London, Eng.—died July 30, 1550, London) was an influential minister of state during the last years of the reign of King Henry VIII of England.
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Thomas Wriothesley (1505–1550), first earl of Southampton, rose to power in the court of Henry VIII under the influence of Thomas Cromwell, earl of Essex, and was enriched through the dissolution of the monasteries.
Thomas Wriothesley Southampton, 1st earl of, c.1500–1550, lord chancellor of England. Appointed a clerk of the signet in 1530, he rose in the favor of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, who granted him many of the lands of the dissolved monasteries.
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. Its second creation came in 1547 in favour of the politician Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Baron Wriothesley, Lord Chancellor between 1544 and 1547.
In 1545 King Henry VIII granted to his ancestor Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, Chancellor of England, the manor of Bloomsbury (now in Central London), which descended by the 4th Earl's second daughter and heiress to the Russell family, and is now part of the Bedford Estate.
Sytsilt to Roman Cecil, Sir Thomas Writh found a Wriothesley back in the reign of King John from whom he might claim a descent and adapted his name to that. Not stopping at that, he redubbed his old father, who had been content with the name of Writh, as "John Wriothesley alias Writh" Thus it is that we come by some diffi-
