Where results make sense

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   PR   |   Contact us

Topic: Francis Walsingham

    Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

Francis Walsingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Walsingham was born in Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, Kent in about 1530 to the family of William Walsingham and Joyce Denny. Walsingham was behind the discovery of the Throckmorton and Babington plots. An admirer of Machiavelli, Walsingham is remembered as one of the most proficient espionage-weavers in history, excelling in the use of intrigues and deception to secure the English Crown. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Walsingham   (882 words)

Francis Throckmorton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Throckmorton was educated in Oxford and entered the Inner Temple in London as a pupil in 1576. Francis Throckmorton (1554—1584) was a conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England. After being tortured on the rack, Throckmorton confessed that he had participated in a plot to overthrow the Queen and restore the Catholic church in England by means of an invasion led by Henry I, Duke of Guise and a contemporaneous uprising of Catholics within the country. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Throckmorton   (290 words)

SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM Walsingham had long been convinced, like parliament and the majority of Englishmen, of the necessity of removing Mary; but it was only the discovery of Babingtons plot that enabled him to bring pressure enough to bear upon Elizabeth to ensure Marys execution. Francis matriculated as a fellow-commoner of Kings College, Cambridge, of which Sir John Cheke was provost, in November 1548; and he continued studying there amid strongly Protestant influences until Michaelmas 155o, when he appears, after the fashion of the time, to have gone abroad to complete his education (Stghlin, p. As secretary, Walsingham could pursue no independent policy; he was rather in the position of permanent under-secretary of the combined home and foreign departments, and he had to work under the direction of the council, and particularly of Burghley arid the queen. 13.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WALSINGHAM_SIR_FRANCIS.htm   (3492 words)

In Search of Shakespeare . Sir Francis Walsingham PBS Depending on which side of the theological divide you were on, Francis Walsingham was probably either a heroic defender of the State or a ruthless persecutor of the innocent. Walsingham was a patron of writers and adapted some of his contacts in the theatrical world to create the Queen's Men, a travelling theatrical group that performed plays with high propaganda content. Walsingham occupied the trusted role of Secretary of State for 17 years, but more importantly he was Elizabeth I's Controller of Intelligence, a spymaster and latter day equivalent to the head of British intelligence's MI5 (domestic intelligence) and MI6 (overseas) combined. www.pbs.org /shakespeare/players/player45.html   (247 words)

Bringing Down A Queen: A Research Paper Analyzing The Babington Plot Of 1586 Nevertheless, Sir Francis Walsingham, principal secretary of state to Elizabeth I from 1573-1590 and a devout Puritan, aimed to accomplish this difficult and dangerous objective. Walsingham and Gifford, therefore, devised a new channel of correspondence for Mary that could be carefully scrutinized by Walsingham and yet, would appear secure to Mary and her supporters. Walsingham had only to wait for Mary to incriminate herself in one of the many letters that were now passing between Mary and her advocates. anduril.ca /bible/essays/ce_his228.html   (4547 words)

Francis WALSINGHAM (Sir) Walsingham was not returned at the start of the 1572 Parliament, but on his return from France he took, as befitted his dignity as a Privy Councillor, a Surrey county seat vacated by the succession to a peerage of Charles Howard, and Walsingham continued to represent Surrey until his death. Walsingham returned to England in Apr 1573 with a rooted distrust of Charles IX and Catherine de Medici and a settled conviction that there was little interest there in the fate of Mary Queen of Scots, whom Elizabeth could therefore dispose of without fear of military intervention from France. Walsingham constantly complained about his financial difficulties and there is no doubt that he died heavily in debt to the Queen, but whether this means that his services were not adequately rewarded it is of course impossible to determine. www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/FrancisWalsingham.htm   (2610 words)

Francis Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster Francis Walsingham was knighted in 1577 and he received the honourary appointments of Chancellor of the Order of the Garter and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Walsingham was the only son of William Walsingham of Footscray in Kent, by his wife Joyce, Daughter of Sir Edmund Denny, William died the year following Francis' birth and his mother married Sir John Carey, a distant relation by marriage of Anne Boleyn's family. Walsingham, meanwhile, was hard at work preparing for the inevitable invasion by Spain; an invasion that through the skill of English seamen and the luck of the weather, never came. www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blelizabethanspymaster   (1323 words)

SparkNotes: Queen Elizabeth I: Elizabeth and Her Advisors In 1571, Elizabeth named him Lord Burleigh, moved him to the position of Lord Treasurer, and replaced him as Secretary of State with the more cutthroat but nevertheless loyal Francis Walsingham. Where Walsingham's skills failed him, however, was in his attempted orchestration of a marriage between Elizabeth and the Duke of Anjou. Ingeniously, Walsingham intercepted the messages she was sending hidden in beer barrels, deciphered them, and unearthed the Babington Plot against Elizabeth. www.sparknotes.com /biography/elizabeth/section6.rhtml   (1007 words)

Elizabethan government Sir Francis Walsingham employed a number of spies (including Christopher Marlowe) to find out what was happening in foreign courts and to infiltrate Catholic conspiracies A man of immense ability, Sir Francis Bacon was the author of some of the finest essays in the English language, wrote the first systematic exposition of the inductive method in science, as well as being an important lawyer and politician. Walsingham had chosen exile when Mary I became queen and he always remained a fervent Protestant. history.wisc.edu /sommerville/361/361-15.htm   (1844 words)

Walsingham, Sir Francis on Encyclopedia.com WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS [Walsingham, Sir Francis], 1532?-1590, English statesman. Be afraid, very afraid.(espionage, headed by Secretary of State Sir Francis Walsingham, in Elizabethan England) Walsingham, as a Protestant, favored an alliance of England, France, and the Netherlands against Spain. www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/walsinghf1.asp   (465 words)

Francis Drake Francis Drake, John Hawkins and Martin Frobisher were chosen as the three other commanders of the fleet. This tactic had been successfully used by Francis Drake in Cadiz in 1587 and the fresh breeze blowing steadily from the English fleet towards Calais, meant the conditions were ideal for such an attack. That evening Francis Drake wrote to a friend: "God hath given us so good a day in forcing the enemy so far to leeward, as I hope in God the Duke of Parma and the Duke of Sidonia shall not shake hands this few days". www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDdrakeF.htm   (1628 words)

NPG 1807; Sir Francis Walsingham Walsingham, the son of a London lawyer, established and ran the great Elizabethan secret service, providing information in particular for William Cecil, Lord Burghley. As Secretary of State (1573-90), Walsingham continually advised Elizabeth I to wage war on Spain, and foresaw the threat of the Armada. It shows Walsingham wearing a cameo of the queen who he served so faithfully and yet who failed to reward him for his loyalty and patriotism. www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?mkey=mw06570   (147 words)

MSN Encarta Francis Walsingham was the chief spy for which English monarch? Richard Nixon, who later became president of the United States, first made his name as a congressman when he led the prosecution of which alleged spy? Who is regarded as the father of modern, organized political espionage? uk.encarta.msn.com /encnet/features/quiz/Quiz.aspx?QuizID=926   (153 words)

Amazon.com: Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage: Books: Stephen Budiansky Rising from humble roots, Sir Francis Walsingham is a model of a certain type of Elizabethan figure, thriving at an innovative court that preferred service by men of talent rather than by the high nobility. At her trial in 1586, the doomed Mary Queen of Scots challenged her chief accuser, Sir Francis Walsingham, to show the court the documents that proved she had been plotting to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I from her prison cell. Walsingham may not have invented spying or been the ultimate spymaster but he honed it to a fine art as did others in Queen Elizabeth's court. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0670034266?v=glance   (2932 words)

BBC - History - Elizabeth's Spy Network These were her spies, her secret service, and they were overseen by the most ruthless spy master of them all: Francis Walsingham. Realising the scale of the task ahead he called upon the man who was to become known as Elizabeth's spy master, Francis Walsingham. This was her network of spies supervised by Walsingham, one of Elizabeth's most loyal ministers, and their aim was to safeguard the life of the Queen. www.bbc.co.uk /history/state/monarchs_leaders/spying_01.shtml   (349 words)

Elizabeth The rise and fall of Sir Francis Walsingham is a Tudor epic, vividly narrated by a historian with unique access to the surviving documentary evidence. Francis Walsingham was the first 'spymaster' in the modern sense. Francis Walsingham and the secret war that saved England www.orionbooks.co.uk /HB-30244/Elizabeth   (250 words)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626). Francis Bacon's major contribution to philosophy was his application of induction, the approach used by modern science, rather than the a priori method of medieval scholasticism. "Francis Bacon's life, with its slow rise to political power and its sudden awful fall, is a drama on the heroic scale of the old Greek tragedies. If one is to get to know about another person's life and their work it will be necessary to take an historical look at the times during which that person lived; this is particularly so of Francis Bacon. www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Philosophy/Bacon.htm   (2604 words)

Cryptology in the 16th and 17th Centuries Walsingham opened a secret cipher school in London and all of his agents had to take a course in cryptography before they were entrusted with service abroad. Francis Bacon abbreviated his first name as "Fs" in his signature while "biacen" is a phonetic spelling of his surname. Of course, Walsingham's Secret Service was not solely concerned with foreign affairs, but was designed to protect the Queen from treasonable activities on her own doorstep as well. home.att.net /~tleary/cryptolo.htm   (6257 words)

Francis Walsingham Francis Walsingham, the son of a prosperous London merchant, was born in Chislehurst, Kent, in about 1530. In 1570 Walsingham was appointed Ambassador to France. arranged for Walsingham to obtain a seat in the House of Commons. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUDwalsinghamF.htm   (190 words)

Secrets and Spies Educated at Cambridge and a language specialist, Phelippes was recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham and became his leading codebreaker. Arrested by Walsingham and tortured, he revealed plans for an invasion led by the Duke of Guise and reinforced by Catholic exiles and troops from the Netherlands. He was arrested and interrogated by Walsingham’s agents in August 1586 and testified that the letters were genuine. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /spies/biography   (1316 words)

Francis Walsingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francis Walsingham was born in Scadbury Park, Chislehurst, Kent in about 1530, to a family of William Walsingham and Joyce Denny. Walsingham was so successful that he was entrusted with a more prestigious role, becoming a joint secretary of state with Sir Thomas Smith. Walsingham was behind the discovery of the Throckmorton and Babington plots. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Francis_Walsingham   (747 words)

All about the murder of Christopher Marlowe, by Russell Aiuto - The Crime library Robert Poley and Nicholas Skeres were, to one degree or another, spies in the employ of Francis Walsingham. Skeres was also involved in the undoing of Babbington and his co-conspirators, and engaged in other assignments for Francis Walsingham. Thomas Walsingham was not only Frizer's employer, but, as was often the case in Elizabethan times, a patron of Christopher Marlowe. crimelibrary.com /notorious_murders/famous/christopher_marlowe/3.html   (677 words)

THE "INVINCIBLE" ARMADA 1588: Sir Francis Drake: A Pictorial Biography by Hans P. Kraus (Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room, Library of Congress) 1589), which he sent to Sir Francis Walsingham, "Principall Secretarie to the Q:[een's] Ma[jes]tie". The unpublished letter is from the collection of Robert Beale (1541-1601), Clerk of the Privy Council, and brother-in-law of Walsingham. The little group in the lower middle of the plate is of special interest; it depicts the flagship of the Andalusian division (with General Pedro de Valdés aboard) being captured by Sir Francis Drake. www.loc.gov /rr/rarebook/catalog/drake/drake-8-invincible.html   (2781 words)

SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM - LoveToKnow Article on SIR FRANCIS WALSINGHAM Francis matriculated as a fellow-commoner of Kings College, Cambridge, of which Sir John Cheke was provost, in November 1548; and he continued studying there amid strongly Protestant influences until Michaelmas 155o, when he appears, after the fashion of the time, to have gone abroad to complete his education (Stghlin, p. Walsingham had long been convinced, like parliament and the majority of Englishmen, of the necessity of removing Mary; but it was only the discovery of Babingtons plot that enabled him to bring pressure enough to bear upon Elizabeth to ensure Marys execution. Sir Franciss great-great-great-grandfather, Alan, was a cordwainer of Gracechurch Street; Alans son Thomas, a vintner, purchased Scadbury in Chislehurst, and Thomass great-grandson William bought Foots Cray, where Francis may have been born. www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WALSINGHAM_SIR_FRANCIS.htm   (3492 words)

Marlowe and Nicholas Faunt Indeed he proves to have been with Sir Francis Walsingham, Thomas Walsingham and Philip Sidney in Paris during the St Bartholomew Massacre, about which Marlowe later writes, as if he too had witnessed it. An able linguist, he worked first for Sir Francis Walsingham, later for Lord Burghley, and afterwards for Bacon. Prior to attending Cambridge, young Faunt had already been working with Sir Francis Walsingham in the secret service. www2.localaccess.com /marlowe/faunt.htm   (925 words)

Find in a Library: Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham from Dec. 1570 to April 1583 Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham from Dec. 1570 to April 1583 Find in a Library: Journal of Sir Francis Walsingham from Dec. 1570 to April 1583 WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/bd58221c87b7124ea19afeb4da09e526.html   (81 words)

Chapter Melibee <i>to</i> Melville of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook Sir Francis Walsingham died in 1590, so poor that he did not leave enough to defray his funeral expenses.) Spenser, in the Ruins of Time (1591), calls sir Francis Walsingham “the good Melibœ;” and in the last book of the Faërie Queene he calls him “Melibee.” So called because Melibœa of Thessaly was famous for the ostrum, a fish used in dying purple. www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1123/14843/1.html   (499 words)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service By the time of Marlowe's murder, though, Sir Francis Walsingham had passed out of the picture. Thomas Walsingham, was later accused, with Nicholas Skeres, of swindling a young county gentlemen. Less than two weeks before his death, he was arrested at the home of Thomas Walsingham, where he was working on his poem Hero and Leander, and ordered to report to the Star Chamber, Elizabethan England's powerful secret court. www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blsecretservice/index1.html   (995 words)

World Encyclopedia: Walsingham, Sir Francis @ HighBeam Research Walsingham, Sir Francis (1532–90) English statesman, a leading minister of Elizabeth I. World Encyclopedia: Walsingham, Sir Francis @ HighBeam Research He was a zealous Protestant, who set up an... highbeam.com /doc/1O142:WalsinghamSirFrancis/Walsingham,+Sir+...   (102 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

About us   |   Why use us?   |   Reviews   |   Press   |   Contact us   Copyright © 2005-2007 www.factbites.com Usage implies agreement with terms.