Francis Throckmorton

Francis Throckmorton also sometimes referred to as Throgmorton or Throckmarton (* 1554 in Feckenham, † July 10, 1584 at Tyburn ) the conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England was accused 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 of Queen Elizabeth I. Sir John was in 1579, a year before his death, from the post of Supreme Court Mr. relieved of Chester. The reasons for this were unclear, he was found guilty of irregular practices permitted in the administration of justice. But he may have been punished because of his pro- Catholic stance.

Study and radicalization

Francis was educated at Hart Hall in Oxford in 1576 and began to study in London at the Inner Temple. At Oxford he had previously fallen under the influence of the Catholics, who still constitute a certain power especially at universities.

At the time when the two Jesuit Edmund Campion and Robert Parsons in 1580 came to England to make propaganda against Queen Elizabeth, was Francis Throckmorton already a member societies of the " Inner Temple ", who had united to support each other.

In 1580 he toured the European continent and met his brother Thomas in Paris, which was as much as his brother Sir William Catesby and Tresham Sir Tomas one of the leading rebels. On another trip, he visited Italy and Spain to meet leaders from the Catholic exiles and Papists.

After his return to England in 1583, he served temporarily as agent or intermediary 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 London a house at Paul's berth, which served as an important meeting with the conspirators.

Throckmorton 's activities soon aroused the suspicion of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I, at that time an important spy chief. Throckmorton was arrested in October 1583 after a search of his home, the services incriminating evidence.

Under torture, he confessed to being involved in a conspiracy to Overcome Queen Elizabeth I to establish the Catholic Church in England again. An invasion led by Henry I the Count of Guise was to be linked to a malicious uprising of Catholics within England. Although he later recanted his confession, he was convicted of high treason on May 21, 1584 to death and executed on July 10, 1584 at Tyburn.

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. Anonymous published in France

References

• 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 Pamphlet 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, Gentleman, 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