Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, Lady of English peer and others (died 1607)

Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton

English noblewoman (1552–1607)

Mary Wriothesley, Countess of Southampton, previously Mary Browne, became the wife of Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, at the age of thirteen and the mother of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton. Widowed in 1581, she was Dowager Countess of Southampton until…