Thomas Walsingham ( born Thomas Walsingham ; c. 1561 - August 11, 1630 ) is a court of the English Queen Elizabeth I , patron of poets such as T. Watson, T. Nash , J. Chapman and K. Marlowe .
| Thomas Walsingham | |
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| English Thomas walsingham | |
| Date of Birth | 1561 |
| Date of death | August 11, 1630 |
| A place of death | Kent |
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Biography
Walsingham was the third son in the family of Sir Thomas Walsingham (1526–1584), a Kent landowner, and grandson of Sir Edmund Walsingham , Court Henry VIII and Lieutenant of the Tower of London.
He was a cousin of Sir Francis Walsingham .
In October 1580, Sir Francis appointed Thomas one of the couriers between the Royal Court of England and the English Embassy in France.
In August 1581 he accompanied Sir Francis on an important diplomatic mission to Paris : the marriage between Queen Elizabeth and the French heir, Francis de Valois .
In 1584 he led the reconnaissance detachments against Catholicism in England .
In 1589, with the death of his father and elder brothers Gouldford and Edmund, Thomas inherited the entire family fortune, including the Skadbury family estate (Kent); but from Edmund he also got debts, for which Walsingham spent a short time in prison.
In 1590, Walsingham resigned as head of intelligence and returned to the family estate. In 1596 he was appointed Kent Judge of the Peace. Thomas organized a local defense against the Invincible Armada .
He was soon knighted.
In 1597 he was elected Member of Parliament from Rochester.
He died at Skadbury on August 11, 1630.
Literature
- R. Geir, "Walsingham, Sir Thomas (1560 / 61-1630)," 2004.