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Francis Walsingham. Sir Francis Walsingham, född cirka 1532, död 6 april 1590 i London, var Elisabet I:s underrättelsechef och grundare av Englands första hemliga polis. Walsingham omnämns ofta som den förste i Europa att bygga upp ett statligt system för spionage och underrättelseinsamling.
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 ...
17 de mar. de 2015 · Sir Francis Walsingham was a government administrator in the reign of Elizabeth I. Walsingham is principally remembered for his part in the trial and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots. Walsingham was born around 1532. His father, William, was a lawyer. Walsingham was well-educated and attended King’s College, Cambridge from 1548 to 1550. Between …
弗朗西斯·沃尔辛厄姆（Walsingham, Francis1532?～1590.4.6）英格兰政治家，受封为弗朗西斯爵士·（Sir Francis）1573～1590年为伊丽莎白一世的首席秘书。长于外交，其语言知识和组织间谍活动的能力在推行伊丽莎白女王外交政策方面具有无可估量的作用。15世纪下半叶，都铎王朝国王亨利七世为加强王权统治 ...
17 de jul. de 2018 · Appointed one of Elizabeth’s principal secretaries in 1573, Sir Francis Walsingham attended daily on the queen, acting as the point of contact between the monarch and the council. As a privy councillor, he offered Elizabeth advice on the thorniest issues of the day.
1. Francis Walsingham rose from relative obscurity to become one of the small coterie who directed the Elizabethan state, overseeing foreign, domestic and religious policy. 2. Francis Walsingham served as English ambassador to France in the early 1570s and witnessed the St Bartholomew's Day massacre. 3.
Sir Francis Walsingham. (circa 1532-1590), Statesman. Sitter associated with 30 portraits. Walsingham established and ran the great Elizabethan secret service, providing information particularly for William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Its spies operated mainly against Roman Catholic conspirators and the agents of Philip II of Spain.
