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William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG (c. 1490 – 15 October 1542) was an English courtier and soldier. He was the third son of Sir Thomas FitzWilliam of Aldwark and Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.
William Fitzwilliam, earl of Southampton was an English admiral during the reign of Henry VIII. A son of Sir William Fitzwilliam of Aldwarke, near Rotherham, Fitzwilliam was a companion in boyhood of Henry VIII and was knighted for his services at the siege of Tournai in 1513.
19 de abr. de 2002 · Fitzwilliam held various official posts: ambassador to France, Lord Privy Seal and Lord High Admiral. He was created Earl of Southampton in 1537, and married Mabel Clifford, sister of the 1st Earl of Cumberland.
It was this Sir William Fitzwilliam, later Earl of Southampton, who first employed his young namesake and who by 1536 considered him a trusted servant and secretary. Fitzwilliam assisted the earl in his examination of prisoners in Surrey in 1538 and in the same year Southampton appointed him the principal feoffee of all his extensive property ...
15 de oct. de 2023 · On this day in Tudor history, 15th October 1542, in the reign of King Henry VIII, courtier, diplomat and naval commander William Fitzwilliam, Earl of Southampton, died in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
He had taken his own first steps in diplomacy in 1518, accompanying the embassy to France headed by Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester, and Nicholas West, Bishop of Ely. In Jan 1521 he replaced Sir Richard Jerningham as resident Ambassador there.
William FitzWilliam, 1st Earl of Southampton, KG ( c. 1490, Aldwark, North Riding of Yorkshire – 15 October 1542, Newcastle upon Tyne ), English courtier and soldier, was the third son of Sir Thomas FitzWilliam of Aldwark and Lady Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.
