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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.
Published 5th January 2018. Francis Walsingham was the son of successful London lawyer, with court connections. His paternal uncle was constable of the Tower of London, and his mother’s brother, Sir Anthony Denny, was the gentleman of the Privy Chamber who told Henry VIII that it was time to prepare for death.
Francis Walsingham (ur. ok. 1532 w Chislehurst, Kent, zm. 6 kwietnia 1590 w Londynie) – polityk angielski; główny i najbardziej zaufany doradca Elżbiety I. Życiorys. Podczas rządów Marii I Tudor został wygnany z kraju i dołączył do innych uchodźców przebywających w Szwajcarii oraz północnych Włoszech.
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 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.
Francis Walsingham. Francis Walsingham (c. 1533 - 6 april 1590) was onder Elizabeth I van Engeland van 1570 tot 1573 de Engelse ambassadeur in Frankrijk en daarna haar 'principal secretary' (een voorloper van de huidige Secretary of State) tot aan zijn dood. Hij staat bekend als haar hoofd spionage . Walsingham onderhield als een van de eerste ...
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 ...
