Francis Throckmorton

Francis Throckmorton also partly called Throgmorton or Throckmarton (* 1554 in Feckenham ; † July 10, 1584 in Tyburn ) was accused of conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England and executed.

origin

Francis Throckmorton was the son of Sir John Throckmorton of Feckenham in Warwickshire and his wife Margery Puttenham , and nephew of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton , a diplomat to Queen Elizabeth I. Sir John was elected Chief Justice of 1579, a year before his death Chester removed. The reasons for this remained unclear and he was found guilty of allowing irregular practices in the administration of justice. But he may also have been punished for his pro-Catholic stance.

Throckmorton Conspiracy

Francis was educated at Hart Hall, near Oxford , and began studying at the Inner Temple in London in 1576 . In Oxford he had previously come under the influence of Catholics , who still represented a certain power, especially at universities. At the time when the two Jesuits Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons came to England in 1580 to carry out propaganda against Queen Elizabeth, Francis Throckmorton was already a member of societies of the "Inner Temple" which had united to support one another.

In 1580 he toured the European continent and met his brother Thomas in Paris, who, like his brother-in-law Sir William Catesby and Sir Tomas Tresham, was one of the leading rebels. On the further trip he visited Italy and Spain to meet leading Catholic exiles and papists.

After his return to England in 1583, he temporarily acted as a middleman or liaison between supporters of the Catholic Church on the continent, the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots , and the Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza . He lived in a house in London on Paul's quay, which served him as an important meeting place with conspirators.

Throckmorton's activities soon aroused the suspicion of Sir Francis Walsingham , Elizabeth I, then the most important spy chief. Throckmorton was arrested in October 1583 after a search of his home which revealed incriminating evidence. Under torture , he confessed to being involved in the Throckmorton conspiracy to overcome Queen Elizabeth I in order to re-establish the Catholic Church in England. An invasion, led by Henry I the Count of Guise, was to be combined with a rigged Catholic rebellion within England. Although he later revoked his confession, he was sentenced to death for high treason on May 21, 1584 and executed in Tyburn on July 10, 1584 .

swell

Robert Parsons: A true report of the death and marturdime of M.Campion
Anonymous: L 'histoire de la mort que le r: P.Edmund Campion prefetre de la Campagne du Nom de Jesus et Autres ont souffert en Angleterre. Published anonymously in France

Bibliography

Sydney Lee, "Francis Throckmorton," in the Dictionary of National Biography , vol. 5, pp. 327-329 (1898).
Malcolm R. Thorp Catholic Conspiracy in Early Elizabethan Foreign Policy, Sixteenth Century Journal 1984
Joseph F. Tempesta, Three Pamphlets concerning Father Edmund Campion, SJ, Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies 1970
Marie Axton, Robert Dudley and the Inner Temple Revels, The Historical Journal 1970 Cambridge University Press
LH.Carlson Martin Marprelate, Gentlemen, Master Job Throckmorton Laid Open in his True Color, San Marino, Huntington Library 1981
JE Neale, Sir Nicholas Throckmorton's Advice to Queen Elizabeth on Her Accession to the Throne, by Nicholas Throckmorton; The English Historical Review 1950

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091775266 Calendar of state papers, Domestic series, of the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547- [1625] p.139,145, ...
^ Alfred Marks: Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals . Good Press, December 12, 2019 ( google.de [accessed May 21, 2020]).
^ John A. Wagner, Susan Walters Schmid: Encyclopedia of Tudor England . ABC-CLIO, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59884-298-2 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).

personal data
SURNAME	Throckmorton, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Conspirators against Queen Elizabeth I.
DATE OF BIRTH	1554
PLACE OF BIRTH	Feckenham , England
DATE OF DEATH	July 10, 1584
Place of death	Tyburn , England

[1] ttp://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924091775266 Calendar of state papers, Domestic series, of the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, Elizabeth, 1547- [1625] p.139,145, ...

[2] Alfred Marks: Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals . Good Press, December 12, 2019 ( google.de [accessed May 21, 2020]).

[3] John A. Wagner, Susan Walters Schmid: Encyclopedia of Tudor England . ABC-CLIO, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59884-298-2 ( google.de [accessed on May 21, 2020]).