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The Walsingham family therefore held several important connections to the royal court. As a young man he would complete his education at King’s College Cambridge, followed by some years studying abroad, principally in France and Italy, before returning to England to begin his career as a lawyer, enrolling at Gray’s Inn in 1552. Queen Mary I
28 de jul. de 2014 · Angela McLeod. 4.71. 14 ratings6 reviews. A historically researched biographical novel on the life of Frances Walsingham, the only child of Sir Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth the First's Secretary of State and Spymaster. She survived the massacre of St.Bartholomew's Eve in Paris together with Sir Philip Sidney, whom she later married.
Walsingham heiratete 1562 die Witwe Anne Carleill, Tochter des Londoner Bürgermeisters George Barnes. Sie starb schon zwei Jahre später. Nach ihrem Tod kümmerte er sich um seinen Stiefsohn Christopher , den Anne mit in die Ehe gebracht hatte. 1566 heiratete er Ursula St. Barbe , Witwe von Sir Richard Worsley , mit der er zwei Töchter hatte, Frances und Mary.
28 de jul. de 2014 · Much has been written on Sir Francis Walsingham, otherwise known as Elizabeth I's Secretary of State and Spymaster, but very little detailing the life of his only child, Frances. Although she was closely associated with some of the greatest and most powerful people of that era, her presence and her contribution to the course of history is largely unknown.
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.
Ambassador to France and the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew’s Day. In 1570 Walsingham was appointed ambassador to France. His experiences there would affirm his growing conviction that, with religion now the dominating political fault line in post-Reformation northern Europe, England could no longer trust its long-term security to a rapprochement with any of the Catholic powers.
Frances Walsingham (1567 [1] – 13 février 1631), est la seule fille de sir Francis Walsingham, le « maître-espion » de la reine Élisabeth I re d'Angleterre. Dame d'honneur de la reine Élisabeth, elle épouse Philip Sidney en 1583 , qui est décédé trois ans plus tard en 1586 .
