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Died June 1238 • England
Sir Francis Walsingham, detail of a panel painting attributed to John de Critz the Elder, last quarter of the 16th century; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Francis Walsingham
English statesman
Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick
Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick
English soldier and diplomat
Ralph Montagu, 1st duke of Montagu
English noble
Sir William Temple, detail of a painting attributed to Peter Lely, 1660; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir William Temple, Baronet
English statesman
Sir Thomas Roe, detail of an oil painting after M.J. Miereveldt, c. 1640; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Thomas Roe
English diplomat and author
Sir Nicholas Throckmorton
English diplomat
Sir George Downing
English diplomat
John Digby, 1st earl of Bristol
English diplomat
Bulstrode Whitelocke
English lawyer
Baron Cottington, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Francis Cottington, Baron Cottington
English official and diplomat
Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet
English poet and translator
Giles Fletcher the Elder
English author
St. Gregory the Great
pope
Choiseul, Étienne-François de Choiseul, duc de
Étienne-François de Choiseul, duke de Choiseul
French foreign minister
Pelagius I
Pelagius I
pope
Myron C. Taylor
American financier and diplomat
Sir Arthur Purves Phayre
British colonial official
Matthäus Lang
German statesman and cardinal
Matthäus Schiner
Swiss diplomat
Fesch, detail of a lithograph by the de Becquet brothers after a drawing by Fischer
Joseph Fesch
French cardinal