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Walsingham

Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman

Alan Haynes

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Beschreibung

Walsingham, Elizabeth's spymaster had established an extensive spy network the world had ever seen, placing secret agents throughout Europe, especially in the Catholic courts of Spain, Italy, and France, to ferret out Catholic plots against Elizabeth. Yet Elizabeth ignored her spymaster. Walsingham, distrusted for being too powerful.

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italy, tudor era, spain, tudor england, protestant queen, spy network, secret agents, catholic courts, francis walsingham, france, elizabethan society, elizabethan spymaster & statesman, secretary of state, queen elizabeth i's spymaster, espionage, tudor period, house of tudor, catholic plots, elizabethan spymaster and statesman