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The Earl of Southampton would have visited these powerful relations on his grandmother’s side at Chesham Bois Manor.
The link comes through Shakespeare’s close relationship with his literary patron 21-year-old Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, to whom Shakespeare dedicated his long dramatic poems ‘Venus and Adonis’ and ‘The Rape of Lucrece’.
When Henry VIII created the title of the Earl of Southampton it was to reward one of his ‘new men’, William Fitzwilliam, who served and survived as one of the king’s privy councillors.