WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS

wôlˈsĭng-əm, 1532?–1590, English statesman. A zealous Protestant, he went abroad during the reign of Queen Mary I but returned on the accession (1558) of Elizabeth I. He entered Parliament (1559) and soon was employed by William Cecil, Baron Burghley, in obtaining intelligence from abroad. Joint secretary of state after 1573, he built up an elaborate and effective spy system, which later implicated the imprisoned Mary Queen of Scots in a conspiracy against Elizabeth (1586) and led to her execution. His system in 1587 also provided England with minute details of the impending attack of the Spanish Armada. Walsingham, as a Protestant, favored an alliance of England, France, and the Netherlands against Spain. But, although he was employed on numerous missions and knighted in 1577, he was never able to persuade Elizabeth to adopt his policies of militant Protestantism. The responsibility for the debts he assumed (1586) at the death of his son-in-law, Sir Philip Sidney, put him in financial difficulties, and he died in debt.

See C. Read, Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth (3 vol., 1925, repr. 1967).

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Francis Bacon and the Transformation of Early-Modern Philosophy
Book by Stephen Gaukroger; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: Bacon, Francis--1561-1626--Philosophy, Philosophy, Modern
...the Earth, 210 Vico, Giambattista, 159 Villiers, Sir George, 46 viniculture, 7 Virgil, 79 , 82 void...Isaac, 29n66 Wallis, John, 2n3 Walsall, John, 39n8 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 46n24 Wang Tao, 4n16 Ward, John, 163n54 Warner...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works
Book by Edwin A. D. D. Abbott; Macmillan, 1885
Subjects: Bacon, Francis--1561-1626
...monopoly, 274 Villiers, Sir Edward, interested in...enforce it, 275 Villiers, Sir George afterwards Baron...opposing the marriage of Sir John Villiers with Cokes...See Charles, Henry Walsingham, Sir Frnacis, outdid...Master of the Wards and Sir Francis of the Liveries," 185...
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Sir Philip Sidney: Type of English Chivalry in the Elizabethan Age
Book by H. R. Fox Bourne; G.P. Putnams Sons, 1891
Subjects: Sidney, Philip--Sir--1554-1586
...305 , 314 W Wales, Sir Henry Sidneys services...211 , 226 , 227 , 334 Walsingham, Frances. See Sidney, Lady Frances Walsingham, Sir Francis, Philip Sidneys introduction...death and burial, 359 Walsingham, Mary, younger daughter...
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Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government
Book by Stanford E. Lehmberg; University of Texas Press, 1964
Subjects: Mildmay, Walter--Sir--1520?-1589
Southwell, Sir Robert: and financial...45 Throckmorton, Francis: plot of, 205 Throckmorton...Wallis, John: 234 Walsingham, Sir Francis: Marian exile, 40...294 , 296 , 298 n. Walsingham, Mary. SEE Mildmay...
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Sir Walter Raleigh: His Family and Private Life
Book by A. L. Rowse; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1962
Subjects: Raleigh, Walter--Sir--1552?-1618
...Sir Thomas, 2 ; --, Sir Thomas, of Tort-worth...252 -3, 274 ; --, Sir Thomas, 19 , 274 , 339...280 , 284 Vere, Sir Francis, 200 , 202 , 276 Vienna...Charles, 287 , 290 , 295 Walsingham, Sir Francis, 24 , 64 , 67 , 75...
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Jon Bolton Assesses a New Tudor Biography
Journal article by Jan Bolton; History Review, 2006
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman (Book)--Book reviews
...Biography. by Jan Bolton Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster...Elizabethan spymaster. Sir Francis Walsinghams career certainly...Cecil, Lord Burghley, Walsingham is frequently depicted...a more multifaceted Walsingham, the spymaster certainly...
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"Bastard Children of Tyranny": The Ancient Constitution and Fulke Greville's A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney *
Journal article by Peter C. Herman; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: A Dedication to Sir Philip Sidney (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Attorneys as authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Blacklisting, Books--Criticism and interpretation, Greville, Fulke, Baron Brooke--Criticism and interpretation, Lawyers--Criticism and interpretation, Monarchs, Nobility, Peerage, Physicians, Physicians as authors, Prisoners, Prisoners as authors, Sidney, Philip, Sir--Portrayals, Writers--Criticism and interpretation
...sig. B3v). (12.) Sir Francis Drake, His Honorable...his first meeting with Walsingham in 1583, Elizabeths...to David H. Willson, Walsingham "told James that his...54.) Ibid., 391. Sir Francis Bacon, on the other...
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Sir Philip Sidney's Defense of Prophesying
Journal article by Roger E. Moore; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 50, 2010
Subjects: Christian poetry--Social aspects, Poets--Works, Prophecies--Social aspects, Religion and state--Management, Sidney, Philip, Sir--Works, The Defence of Poesy (Poetry collection)--Authorship
Sir Philip Sidneys Defense of Prophesying. by Roger E. Moore Roger E. Moore, Sir Philip Sidneys Defense of Prophesying Sidney writes...held in the last quarter of the sixteenth century, Sir Philip Sidneys emphasis on the prophetic nature of...
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Querre-Muhau: Sir Philip Sidney and the New World
Journal article by Roger Kuin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 51, 1998
Subjects: America--History, Sidney, Philip--Conduct of life
...married Frances Walsingham, and Sir Humphrey Gilbert...other places. As Walsingham wrote despairingly...13 September: Sir Philip hath taken...to accompany Sir Francis Drake in this voyage...thus saving "Sir Francis Drake from the...
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Cecropia and the Church of Antichrist in Sir Philip Sidney's 'New Arcadia.'
Journal article by Barbara Brumbaugh; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 38, 1998
Subjects: Antichrist--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Protestantism--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sidney, Philip--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...the Church of Antichrist in Sir Philip Sidneys New Arcadia...behalf (Fulke Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney 1652; Oxford...Rudolph II. 47 Greville, Life of Sir Philip Sidney, pp. 42-3...designs, against Leicester, Walsingham, and others, who had persuaded...
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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580
Magazine article by Rod E. Redman; Sea Classics, Vol. 37, January 2004
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake 1577-1580 by...Secret Voyage of SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1577-1580 By...generally believed that Francis Drake sailed no farther...her spymaster Francis Walsingham went to mislead Spains...
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At Home and Away: The Earl of Leicester
Magazine article by Simon Adams; History Today, Vol. 46, May 1996
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England--Influence, Robert, Earl of Leicester--Biography, United Kingdom--History, 1558-1603 (Elizabethan era)
...wife and an entourage of sixty. Sir Francis Walsingham was intending to join him, but...Greys his father in law, Sir Francis Knollys, house) near Henley...and then received word from Walsingham and Lord Burghley that the Queen...
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The Last Decade: An Ageing Regime: Paul E.J. Hammer Looks at Elizabeth I and Her Government in the 1590s
Magazine article by Paul Hommer; History Today, Vol. 53, May 2003
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England--History, Elizabeth I, Queen of England--International aspects, Elizabeth I, Queen of England--Political aspects, Monarchy--United Kingdom
...Wentworths gaoler, Sir Michael Blount, the Lieutenant...died in 1588, while Sir Ralph Sadler died in 1587...Mildmay in 1589, and Sir Francis Walsingham, Sir James Croft and...died in 1591. Only Sir Francis Knollys and Sir William...
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Thomas Watson: Poet - and Musician?
Magazine article by Albert Chatterley; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Autumn 2007
Subjects: English language, Poetry
...members of the Walsingham family, especially Sir Franciss young nephew Thomas, son of the...developed a firm attachment to the family of Sir Francis Walsingham. The Walsinghams seem...in Paris. We do not know how much liking Sir Francis himself had for music, but we do...
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Cromwell's Trailblazer? Reinterpreting the Earl of Essex
Magazine article by Graham Seel; History Today, Vol. 45, April 1995
Subjects: Devereux, Robert--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Essex, England--History
...by Elizabeth 1. His mother was the daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney. In 1603 she married Richard Bourke...more, for in 1636 he caught her in flagrante with Sir Thomas Uvedale. When she gave birth to a son many...
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Elizabeth the Second Best Is a Royal Wreck; Past Imperfect: Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen, above) Does His Best Errol Flynn Impression for Smitten Queen Bess (Cate Blanchett)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 2, 2007
...Wreck; Past Imperfect: Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive...torn between her love of Sir Alf Ramsey (CliveOwen...and improbably handsome Sir Walter Raleigh,who in...the Queens spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham,and his subplot raises...
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Archive: Hidden World beyond the Pomp and Ceremony; Chris Upton Goes off the Tourist Trail at Warwick Castle to Discover a Once Golden Circle of Courtiers
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 8, 2003
Subjects: Sidney, Philip, Sir
...counsellor to King James, friend to Sir Philip Sidney. There are...Shakespeare and Leicester, Walsingham and Essex - Greville outlived...it was his friendship with Sir Philip Sidney that Greville...even considered joining one of Francis Drakes voyages to the West Indies...
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Signatures That Spelled an Untimely Death for the Queen of Scots
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 15, 1996
...signatories included Lords Burghley and Leicester, Sir Francis Walsingham and Sir Christopher Hatton. Stuart queen born to strifeStrife...she was 14, the young Queen married the Dauphin Francis and secretly agreed that, if she died, her kingdom...
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The Tudor Touch; Renowned Developer Linfoot Homes Lifts the Lid on Its Lady Grey Park Development Located in Sutton Coldfield
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 18, 2009
...connection continues in the house titles. Walsingham House and Swynford House, the six-bedroom homes, are after Frances Walsingham, only daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham, spymaster for Queen Elizabeth I, and Katherine...
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A Trap Fit for a Queen; Chris Upton Explores How Tutbury Castle Was Used to Imprison Mary Queen of Scots in Order to Set Her Up
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 17, 2011
...Shrewsbury and subsequently Sir Amyas Paulet. So far...what Elizabeth and Sir Francis Walsingham - Elizabeths spy-master...location. Paulet informed Walsingham that "there were many...explore the inside of Sir Francis Walsinghams head. The...
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Walsingham, Sir Francis
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WALSINGHAM, SIR FRANCIS wol sing- m, 1532? 1590, English...impending attack of the Spanish Armada. Walsingham, as a Protestant, favored an alliance...debt. See C. Read, Mr. Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth...
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Elizabeth I , Queen of England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the plot of the younger Sir Thomas Wyatt (1554...appointed immediately, and Sir Francis Walsingham in 1573. At her death...Shakespeare , Edmund Spenser , Francis Bacon , Walter Raleigh , Martin Frobisher , Francis Drake , and other notable...
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Mary Queen of Scots
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...In 1558, Mary and Francis were married under an...crowned in 1559, but Francis died the following year...stricter surveillance of Sir Amias Paulet. She schemed...the discovery by Sir Francis Walsingham of a plot led by Anthony...
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Espionage
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the pay of the English, and Sir Francis Walsingham developed an efficient political...captured two CIA agents, and in 1960 Francis Gary Powers, flying a U-2 reconnaissance...2 flights and the exchange of Francis Gary Powers for Rudolf Abel in...
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Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...policy was defeated (1585) by the Puritan wing of the council under Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Sir Francis Walsingham. Although Elizabeths favorites often opposed Burghleys influence, his role as chief adviser was never seriously...


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