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Sir Francis Walsingham. Walsingham doubled as Elizabeth’s principal secretary and spymaster. In September 1586, Babington and most of the conspirators were executed. Mary of Scots would go to her death the next year for her part in what would become known as the Babington Plot. Her death, at first rejected by Elizabeth, was finally ensured by ...
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.
Walsingham’s numerous spies provided detailed reports of Spanish preparations for the sailing of the Armada against England in July 1588. Walsingham was married twice (both times to widowed women): to Anne Barnes Carleill (sometimes spelled Carlyle) in 1562 and, after her death, to Ursula St. Barbe Worseley in 1566.
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.
Walsingham and Ursula had a daughter together, Frances Walsingham. Frances was a lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth I and married Philip Sidney in 1583. After his death she married Robert Devereux, the 2nd Earl of Essex and then after his execution Frances married Richard de Burgh. Career Serving the Queen: In 1569, Walsingham was asked by
9 de sept. de 2018 · Biography: Sir Francis Walsingham. Son of William Walsingham and Joyce Denny. Married to Anne Barne and Ursula St. Barbe. Father of Frances Devereux, Countess of Essex and Mary Walsingham. Sir Francis Walsingham was Elizabeth I’s “Spy Master” and was one of her primary secretaries. It was Walsingham and his men who discovered the ...
