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See intelligence. Sir Francis Walsingham - Catholic Conspiracies, Spanish Armada: Those secret efforts would lead directly to the exposure of two more serious plots to depose Elizabeth and restore Catholicism to England. A spy in the French embassy in London—who has plausibly been identified as Giordano Bruno (writing under the pseudonym ...
29 de dic. de 2021 · In this letter Arthur Gregory, a skilled counterfeiter, informed Walsingham that he had discovered a technique using alum to create secret writing. He wrote, ‘The writing with alum is discovered divers ways … but most apparently by rubbing of coal dust thereon.’. Gregory used the letter’s postscript to demonstrate his secret writing ...
William Walsingham (died 1534) MOTHER: Joyce Denny (died 1560) NATIONALITY: English. RELIGION: Protestant. EDUCATION: Cambridge University. KEY POSITION: Secretary of State (1573-1590) SPOUSE: Anne Barne (died 1564) Ursula St Barbe (died 1602) CHILDREN: By Ursula St Barbe: Frances Walsingham (Lady Sidney, Countess of Essex, Countess of ...
Frances was a survivor, but must have had, besides intelligence, rare charm or beauty to have married, in succession, three of the most charismatic men of the age. Seven of her twelve children survived. Frances Walsingham was the only daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, Principal Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Frances Walsingham, Countess of Essex and Countess of Clanricarde (1567 – 13 February 1631) was an English noblewoman. The daughter of Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's Secretary of State, she became the wife of Sir Philip Sidney at age 14.
14 de may. de 2013 · Considered the first British spymaster, Francis Walsingham held the position of the modern day Foreign Secretary and head of MI5 and MI6. A sixteenth-century ‘M’, he commanded a network of over 50 agents all over the country and throughout Europe as far east as Turkey, and usually supported this elaborate espionage network from his own pocket.
Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532 – April 6, 1590) is remembered by history as the "spymaster" of Queen Elizabeth I of England. An admirer of Machiavelli, Walsingham is remembered as one of the most proficient espionage-weavers in history, excelling in the use of intrigues and deception to secure the English Crown.
