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SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM, English statesman, was the only son of William Walsingham, common sergeant of London (d.March 1534), by his wife Joyce, daughter of Sir Edmund Denny of Cheshunt. The family is assumed to have sprung from Walsingham in Norfolk, but the earliest authentic traces of it are found in London in the first half of the 15th ...
Francis Walsingham. Sir Francis Walsingham, född cirka 1532, död 6 april 1590 i London, var Elisabet I:s underrättelsechef och grundare av Englands första hemliga polis. Walsingham omnämns ofta som den förste i Europa att bygga upp ett statligt system för spionage och underrättelseinsamling.
15 de jul. de 2022 · Francis Walsingham came from a family that held several minor offices within the English court. His father was a lawyer who died when Francis was only two. In 1548, when he was approximately 16, Walsingham was enrolled in King’s College, a protestant and reformist college based in the University of Cambridge , before being enrolled in Gray’s Inn to study law in 1552.
Francis Walsingham (env. 1530 à Chislehurst , Kent - 6 avril 1590 ) est connu comme le « maître- espion » d' Élisabeth I re d' Angleterre dont il est également secrétaire d'État . Admirateur de Machiavel , il est connu pour son efficacité en tant qu'espion et sa capacité à susciter intrigues et fausses intrigues pour la cause de la sécurité de la Couronne anglaise.
Sir Francis Walsingham by John de Critz (c. 1585) In October 1585, Gilbert Gifford went to Paris, where he got in touch with Thomas Morgan, an agent of Mary Stuart. In December he crossed over to England, landing at the port of Rye. Walsingham, had a spy in the camp of Morgan, and on his arrival he was arrested.
Francis Walsingham è noto per essere stato uno dei maggiori diplomatici dell'epoca di Elisabetta I Tudor: a lui si deve una linea politica pervicacemente antispagnola [1], con la quale dimostrò di essere uno fra i primi a comprendere il potenziale della flotta inglese come strumento di potenza militare mondiale.
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.
