Sir Francis Walsingham
Standard Name: Walsingham, Sir Francis
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | In the minds of the country's ruling class, a marriage for the queen was also necessary. Some have supposed that at this stage Elizabeth may have hoped to marry one day, although she herself publicly... |
| Employer | Christopher Marlowe | Meanwhile records from summer 1587 indicate that Marlowe was already performing valuable secret services for the queen
: that is, he was employed as an intelligence agent or spy, perhaps in the network which Sir Francis Walsingham |
| Textual Production | Mrs F. C. Patrick | Historically, Anthony Babington
, a member of a wealthy Catholic family in Derbyshire, maintained a correspondence with Mary, Queen of Scots
, during her imprisonment. In summer 1586 he informed her that he and a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sir Philip Sidney | On 21 September 1583 SPS
married the sixteen-year-old Frances Walsingham. This had every appearance of being a dynastic marriage, sealing an alliance between Sidney and his father-in-law, the powerful Sir Francis Walsingham
. The couple... |
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