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25 de jul. de 2006 · Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her.
Frances Walsingham (also Frances Sidney; Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex; Frances De Burgh (or Burke), Countess of St. Albans and Clanricarde) 1569 - 13 February 1631) was an English countess during the Tudor and Stuart periods. She was the only child of Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I, and Ursula St. Barbe. A lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, she married Philip ...
6 de abr. de 2017 · On this day in history, 6th April 1590, Elizabeth I's principal secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham, died at around the age of fifty-eight. Although he had served the queen for many years, he died in debt, as he had underwritten the debts of Sir Philip Sidney, his son-in-law. Walsingham was an incredibly important man during Elizabeth I's reign, being a statesman, private secretary, adviser ...
He also married a widow, Ann Carteill, who died two years later leaving Walsingham to care for her two children. In 1566, he married Ursula St. Barbe, widow of Sir Richard Worsley, and they had a daughter, Frances. In the following years, Walsingham became active in soliciting support for the Huguenots in France.
Frances Burke (née Walsingham, previously Devereux and Sidney), Countess of Clanricarde and Dowager Countess of Essex (1567 – 17 February 1633) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 16. Her second husband was Queen Elizabeth's favourite, Robert Devereaux Earl of Essex, with whom ...
20 de jul. de 2023 · With little written evidence about her life, Frances Walsingham is largely known through her connections to powerful men of the Elizabethan court. The daughter of the queen’s spymaster, Walsingham married Philip Sidney, the renowned poet and soldier, in 1583 when she was 15.
17 de jul. de 2018 · Neither of these approaches, however, really helps access the reality of counselling Elizabeth. The vast majority of Walsingham and Elizabeth’s interactions cannot be directly recovered as, given his daily attendance, these were mainly verbal and thus have left few archival traces.
