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20 de jul. de 2023 · The daughter of the queen’s spymaster, Walsingham married Philip Sidney, the renowned poet and soldier, in 1583 when she was 15. Widowed three years later, she went on to marry Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex, in 1590. This marriage also ended with her husband’s death, this time by beheading for rebelling against the queen 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 ...
Sir Francis Walsingham, (born c. 1532, probably Footscray, Kent, Eng.—died April 6, 1590, London), English statesman and adviser to Queen Elizabeth I (1573–90). A member of Parliament from 1563, he became ambassador to the French court (1570–73) and established friendly relations between France and England. He was admitted to the Privy ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
7 de dic. de 2016 · Queen Elizabeth with Lord Burleigh and Sir Francis Walsingham. Wellcome Images, London/CC BY 4.0. In a lowly tavern in an English town in the 1580s, a group of men met to organize the ...
