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6 de abr. de 2017 · Sir Francis Walsingham. 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 ...
Sir Francis Walsingham by John de Critz (c. 1585) In October 1585, Gilbert Gifford went to Paris, where he got in touch with Thomas Morgan, an agent of Mary Stuart. In December he crossed over to England, landing at the port of Rye. Walsingham, had a spy in the camp of Morgan, and on his arrival he was arrested.
Francis Walsingham. BORN: 1532 • Kent, England DIED: September 6, 1590 • London, England English statesman; spy. Francis Walsingham, who served as secretary of state to Queen Elizabeth I (1533–1603; see entry), organized and ran a vast spy network that kept the English informed about the potentially dangerous activities of rival powers, especially France and Spain.
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 ...
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 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.
フランシス・ウォルシンガム. サー ・ フランシス・ウォルシンガム （ 英語: Sir Francis Walsingham, PC 、 1532年 頃 - 1590年 4月6日 ）は、 イングランド の 政治家 。. テューダー朝 最後の女王 エリザベス1世 に重臣として仕えた。. 秘密警察 長官 ・ スパイマスター ...
