Diego Guzmán de Silva

Spanish canon and diplomat
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Anonymous engraving of Diego Guzmán de Silva (National Portrait Gallery, London).

Diego Guzmán de Silva (Ciudad Rodrigo, c. 1520 - Venice, 1577) was a Spanish canon and diplomat. He served as ambassador to England (then under Elizabeth I), the Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice.[1]

Guzman saw that Elizabeth I wore a miniature portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, on a chain at her waist in April 1566.[2] He wrote a number of letters describing the arrival of Mary, Queen of Scots, in England in May 1568, and the efforts of French and Scottish diplomats on her behalf.[3]

Depictions

Guzman is depicted as the ambassador of Spain to Britain during the reign of Edward VI in Becoming Elizabeth.

References

  1. ^ Levin, Michael Jacob (2005). Agents of Empire: Spanish Ambassadors in Sixteenth-Century Italy. Cornell University Press. ISBN 9780801443527.
  2. ^ Martin Hume, Calendar State Papers Spain, Simancas, 1 (London, 1892), p. 539 no. 349
  3. ^ Martin Hume, Calendar State Papers Spain, Simancas, 2 (London, 1894), pp. 42, 56
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