The Right HonourableRoger Manners, 5th Earl of RutlandOctober 6, 1576–June 26, 1612) was the son of John Manners, 4th Earl of Rutland. The Right Honourable (abbreviated The Rt Hon. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... Events May 5 - Peace of Beaulieu or Peace of Monsieur (after Monsieur, the Duc dAnjou, brother of the King, who negotiated it). ... June 26 is the 177th day of the year (178th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 188 days remaining. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ...
He married Elizabeth Sidney, on 5 March1599. March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... Events Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden. ...
He died in 1612, aged 35 and his titles passed to his brother, Francis Manners. Francis Manners Rutland, 6th Earl of Rutland (1578-1632), was an English nobleman. ...
RogerManners, 5thEarl of Rutland (1576 – 1612, aged 36) was “too young and unproven” to be Shakespeare, is the widely-held belief.
The 5thEarl inherited aged 12 when his father died.
Rutland at 20 was at Padua University, in Italy, at the same time as students by name Rosencrantz and Guylderstern – who in turn were at the royal christening in 1603 (and were in Shakespeare’s Hamlet)