Sir Geoffrey Fenton (c. 1539 - October 19, 1608) was an English writer, Privy Councillor, and Principal Secretary of State in Ireland. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A writer is anyone who creates a written work although the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally as well as those who have written in many different forms A privy council is a body that advises the Head of state of a nation on how to exercise their executive authority, typically but not always in the context of a
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Early literary years
He was the son of Henry Fenton from Nottinghamshire, and the brother of Edward Fenton the navigator. Nottinghamshire (abbreviated Notts) is an English county in the East Midlands, which borders South Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire Edward Fenton (died 1603 was an English Navigator, son of Henry Fenton and brother of Sir Geoffrey Fenton.
Geoffrey (spelt Jeffrey by Lodge[1]) is said to have visited Spain and Italy in his youth; possibly he went to Paris in Sir Thomas Hohy's train in 1566, for he was living there in 1567, when he wrote Certaine tragicall discourses written oute of Frenche and Latin. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city This book is a free translation of François de Belleforest's French rendering of Matteo Bandello's Novelle. François de Belleforest ( Comminges, 1530 - Paris, January 1, 1583) was a prolific French author poet and translator of the Matteo Bandello (c 1480 &ndash 1562 was an Italian novelist Biography Matteo Bandello was born at Castelnuovo Scrivia, near Tortona (current
Till 1579 Fenton continued his literary labors, publishing Monophylo in 1572, Golden epistles gathered out of Guevaraes workes as other authors . . . 1575, and various religious tracts of strong Protestant tendencies. Protestantism refers to the forms of Christian faith and practice that originated in the 16th century Protestant Reformation. In 1579 appeared the Historie of Guicciardini, translated out of French by Fenton and dedicated to Queen Elizabeth.
Ireland
Through Lord Burghley he obtained, in 1580, the post of secretary to the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Grey de Wilton, and thus became a fellow worker with the poet, Edmund Spenser. Lord Burghley redirects here For other holders of the title see Baron Burghley William Cecil 1st Baron Burghley (13 September 1520 &ndash The Lord Deputy was the King's representative and head of the Irish executive during the Kingdom of Ireland. Arthur Grey 14th Baron Grey of Wilton (1536-1593 was a Baron in the Peerage of England, born to William Grey 13th Baron Grey de Wilton and Princess Edmund Spenser (c 1552 &ndash 13 January, 1599) was an important English Poet and Poet Laureate best known for The Fenton thereafter abandoned literature for service to the Crown in Ireland. He proved himself a zealous Protestant, who worked against the "diabolicall secte" of Rome, and urged the assassination of the Crown's most dangerous subjects. He secured the Queen's confidence with his written reports, but was arrested at Dublin in 1587 by the authority of the sitting governor, Sir John Perrot, on account of his debts, and was paraded in chains through the city. Sir John Perrot (c 1527 - September 1592 was lord deputy of Ireland under Queen Elizabeth I of England and is best known for his part in the Tudor re-conquest of He was soon released, and made himself an instrument in Perrot's downfall in the following years.
In 1589 Fenton was knighted, and in 1590-1591 he acted as a Commissioner at London in the controversial impeachment of Perrot, which concluded when a death sentence was passed upon the former governor. Impeachment is the first of two stages in a specific process for a legislative body to forcibly remove a Government official By 1603 he was Principal Secretary of State, and Privy Councillor, in Ireland. A privy council is a body that advises the Head of state of a nation on how to exercise their executive authority, typically but not always in the context of a [2]
Fenton is said to have seethed with hatred for the Scots and also for Elizabeth's successor, James VI. The Scots people ( Scots Gaelic: Albannaich) are a Nation and an Ethnic group indigenous to Scotland. James VI and I (19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625 was King of Scotland as James VI, and King of England and King of Ireland as James Upon the succession, Fenton's post was in danger, but Burghley exerted himself in his favor, and in 1604 it was confirmed to him for life, though he had to share it with Sir Richard Coke.
Marriage and death
Fenton died in 1608, and was buried in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, formally known as The National Cathedral and Collegiate Church of Saint Patrick Dublin or in the Irish language
He had married in June 1585, Alice, daughter of Dr Robert Weston, formerly Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and widow of Dr Hugh Brady, bishop of Meath, by whom he had two children - a son, Sir William Fenton, and a daughter, Catherine, who in 1603 married Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork. The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor is a senior and important functionary in the Government of the United Kingdom. Hugh Brady ( July 29, 1768 – April 15, 1851) was an American general from Pennsylvania. The Diocese of Meath was established in AD 552 The current Church of Ireland Diocese of Meath and Kildare has existed since 1976 when it was created by the amalgamation Richard Boyle 1st Earl of Cork, also known as the Great Earl of Cork (13 October 1566 &ndash 15 September 1643 was Lord High Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.
References
- Harl. Soc. publications, vol. iv. , Visitation of Nottinghamshire, 1871; Roy. Hist. MSS. Comm. (particularly Hatfield collection); Calendar of State papers, Ireland (very full), domestic, Carew papers; Lismore papers, ed. A. B. Grosart (1886-1888); Certaine tragicall Discourses, ed. R. L. Douglas (2 vols. , 1898), Tudor Translation series, vols. xix. , xx. (introd. ).
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