Resultado da Busca
14 de mai. 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.
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.
23 de mai. de 2018 · Walsingham, Sir Francis ( c. 1532–90). Walsingham matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, in 1548 and was taught by the prominent humanist (and Cecil's father-in-law) Sir John Cheke. He travelled abroad 1550–2, began common law training at Gray's Inn in 1552, and studied civil law at Padua from 1555. He became privy counsellor and ...
1 de set. de 2020 · From his appointment as principal secretary to Elizabeth I in 1573, Sir Francis Walsingham was instrumental in every sphere of English diplomacy. He was particularly interested in maintaining friendly relations with Scotland, though this was complicated by his suspicions of individual Scots, especially the king, James VI, who embarked on his personal rule after the execution of the last regent ...
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.
25 de jul. de 2006 · Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her.
