Francis Walsingham
1532 to 1590
8 documented presences
7 places
Quo Fuit places 8 dated presences for Francis Walsingham across 7 places, from 1530 to 1590. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Sir Francis Walsingham ( – 6 April 1590) was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England from 20 December 1573 until his death and is popularly remembered as her "spymaster".Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Where Francis Walsingham was documented, and when
1530 to 1534period
Chislehurstattested
“Francis Walsingham was born around 1532, probably at Foots Cray, near Chislehurst in Kent, the only son of William Walsingham (died 1534), a successful and well-connected London lawyer who served as a member of the commission appointed t…”
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1530 to 1534period
Foots Crayattested
“Francis Walsingham was born around 1532, probably at Foots Cray, near Chislehurst in Kent, the only son of William Walsingham (died 1534), a successful and well-connected London lawyer who served as a member of the commission appointed t…”
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1530 to 1534period
Kentattested
“Francis Walsingham was born around 1532, probably at Foots Cray, near Chislehurst in Kent, the only son of William Walsingham (died 1534), a successful and well-connected London lawyer who served as a member of the commission appointed t…”
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1550 to 1552period
Gray's Innattested
“From 1550 or 1551, he travelled in continental Europe, returning to England by 1552 to enrol at Gray's Inn, one of the qualifying bodies for English lawyers.”
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1550 to 1552period
Englandattested
“From 1550 or 1551, he travelled in continental Europe, returning to England by 1552 to enrol at Gray's Inn, one of the qualifying bodies for English lawyers.”
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May 1582month
Englandattested
“In May 1582, letters from the Spanish ambassador in England, Bernardino de Mendoza, to contacts in Scotland were found on a messenger by Sir John Forster, who forwarded them to Walsingham.”
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May 1582month
Scotlandattested
“In May 1582, letters from the Spanish ambassador in England, Bernardino de Mendoza, to contacts in Scotland were found on a messenger by Sir John Forster, who forwarded them to Walsingham.”
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6 April 1590exact date
Seething Laneattested
“He died on 6 April 1590, at his house in Seething Lane.”
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Places Francis Walsingham is documented in
England2 presences · 1550 to 1582Kent1 presence · 1530Scotland1 presence · 1582
Chislehurst1 presence · 1530
Foots Cray1 presence · 1530
Gray's Inn1 presence · 1550
Seething Lane1 presence · 1590
Other places tied to Francis Walsingham in the record
In each of these, a source puts Francis Walsingham and the place in the same dated sentence without stating that Francis Walsingham was there. They are kept apart from the timeline above for exactly that reason: a mention is not a presence, and Quo Fuit does not quietly promote one into the other.
1548year
King's College, Cambridgementioned
“Francis Walsingham matriculated at King's College, Cambridge, in 1548 with many other Protestants but as an undergraduate of high social status did not sit for a degree.”
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1559year
Englandmentioned
“Walsingham returned to England and through the support of one of his fellow former exiles, Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford, he was elected to Elizabeth's first parliament as the member for Bossiney, Cornwall, in 1559.”
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1567year
Appuldurcombementioned
“Walsingham's other two stepsons, Ursula's sons John and George, were killed in a gunpowder accident at Appuldurcombe in 1567.”
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January 1573month
Francementioned
“She gave birth to a second girl, Mary, in January 1573 while Walsingham was still in France.”
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April 1573month
Englandmentioned
“He returned to England in April 1573, having established himself as a competent official whom the Queen and Cecil could trust.”
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1578 to 1581period
Pacificmentioned
“Walsingham was among the promoters of Francis Drake's profitable 1578–1581 circumnavigation of the world, correctly judging that Spanish possessions in the Pacific were vulnerable to attack.”
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1578year
Netherlandsmentioned
“Walsingham was sent on a special embassy to the Netherlands in 1578, to sound out a potential peace deal and gather military intelligence.”
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1581year
Francementioned
“Walsingham was sent to France in mid-1581 to discuss an Anglo-French alliance, but the French wanted the marriage agreed first and Walsingham was under instruction to obtain a treaty before committing to the marriage.”
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1581year
Tyburnmentioned
“Edmund Campion was among those tortured and found guilty on the basis of extracted evidence; he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1581.”
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April 1583month
Londonmentioned
“By April 1583, Walsingham had a spy, identified as Giordano Bruno by historian John Bossy, deployed in the French embassy in London.”
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August 1583month
Scotlandmentioned
“After the collapse of the Raid of Ruthven, another initiative to secure a pro-English government in Scotland, Walsingham reluctantly visited the Scottish court in August 1583, knowing that his diplomatic mission was unlikely to succeed.”
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1584year
Englandmentioned
“Throckmorton was executed in 1584 and Mendoza was expelled from England.”
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1586year
Oxford Universitymentioned
“In 1586, he funded a lectureship in theology at Oxford University for the Puritan John Rainolds.”
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