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Sir Francis Walsingham is perhaps best known as Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster: through his network of spies and the information he gathered from them, he was able to protect Elizabeth from assassination plots and conspiracies. He is perhaps most well-known for his role in securing the grim fate of Mary Queen of Scots…. On 6th April 1590 Sir ...
The only surviving child of Francis Walsingham, the queen’s Principal Secretary and spymaster, Frances married the poet and soldier Sir Philip Sydney in 1583. After his death from a battle wound only three years later, she married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Queen Elizabeth’s favorite throughout the 1590s.
Frances Walsingham. Frances Seymour, Duchess of Somerset ( née Devereux; 30 September 1599 [1] – 24 April 1674) was an English noblewoman who lived during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I and Charles II. Her father was Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, Elizabeth I's favourite who was executed for treason in 1601.
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 ...
27 de jul. de 2009 · 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 ...
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28 de jul. de 2014 · Much has been written on Sir Francis Walsingham, otherwise known as Elizabeth I's Secretary of State and Spymaster, but very little detailing the life of his only child, Frances. Although she was closely associated with some of the greatest and most powerful people of that era, her presence and her contribution to the course of history is largely unknown. This books chronicles the life of ...
1. Francis Walsingham rose from relative obscurity to become one of the small coterie who directed the Elizabethan state, overseeing foreign, domestic and religious policy. 2. Francis Walsingham served as English ambassador to France in the early 1570s and witnessed the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. 3.
