Frances Walsingham

See also: Walsingham (homonymy)

Frances Walsingham (1569 - February 13rd 1631) was the only girl of Sir Francis Walsingham, " Master spy " of the queen Elisabeth I {{Re}} of England. Lady-in-waiting of the Queen Elizabeth, it married Philip Sidney in 1583, which is deceased three years later in 1586. In 1590, the father of Frances is also deceased and it remained with a annual installment of only 300£.

In 1590, Frances married Robert Devereux, a marriage which strongly displeased with the queen. Robert was carried out in 1601 after having taken part in a coup d'etat against the queen.

Frances had three children of its second marriage, Frances, Robert and Dorothy. Robert became Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl off Essex.

Personality

It was the woman who shocked England élisabéthaine, Frances Walsingham, was so beautiful that the queen prohibited to him to appear at the court. Still teenager, it married Sir Philip Sideny, noble, soldier and poet who mourrut at the time of the Great War against Spain. Shortly after it took for husband the favorit of the queen and one of the personality more for England at that time - the Duc of Essex. MUSE of the poets, it inspired with Thomas Watson his famous Hecatompathia .

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