Sir Francis Throckmorton

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Sir Francis Throckmorton

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Birthplace: Feckenham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
Death: July 10, 1584 (29-30) (executed for treason)
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Son of Sir John Throckmorton, MP and Margaret Throckmorton
Husband of Anne Wilmer
Father of John Throckmorton
Brother of Thomas Throckmorton; George Throckmorton; Edward Throckmorton; Mary Throckmorton and Anne Wigmore

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About Sir Francis Throckmorton

Sir Francis Throckmorton (1554 – July 1584) was a conspirator against Queen Elizabeth I of England in the Throckmorton Plot. He was the son of Sir John Throckmorton, the seventh out of eight sons of Sir George Throckmorton of Coughton Court. He was a nephew of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, one of Elizabeth's diplomats, who had held the post of Chief Justice of Chester but was removed in 1579, a year before his death. His paternal grandmother, Hon. Katherine Vaux, daughter of Nicholas Vaux, 1st Baron Vaux of Harrowden, was the paternal aunt of the Protestant queen consort of King Henry VIII, Catherine Parr.

Francis Throckmorton was educated in Oxford and entered the Inner Temple in London as a pupil in 1576. In 1580, he traveled to the European continent and met leading Catholic malcontents from England abroad (in Spain and France). It was in Paris that Throckmorton met Charles Paget and Thomas Morgan, agents of Mary, Queen of Scots. Following his return to England in 1583, he served as an intermediary for communications between supporters of the Catholic cause on the continent, the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Spanish ambassador Bernardino de Mendoza.

His activities raised the suspicions of Sir Francis Walsingham, Elizabeth I's spymaster. A search of his house produced incriminating evidence and, after torture on the rack, Throckmorton confessed his involvement in a plot to overthrow the Queen and restore the Catholic Church in England. An invasion led by Henry I, Duke of Guise, would have been coupled with an orchestrated uprising of Catholics within the country.

Although Throckmorton later retracted his confession, he was convicted of high treason and executed in 1584.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Throckmorton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throckmorton_Plot

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Throckmorton

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Throckmorton,_Francis_(DNB00)

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Sir Francis Throckmorton's Timeline

1554
1554
Feckenham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
1573
1573
Feckenham, Worcestershire, United Kingdom
1584
July 10, 1584
Age 30