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Died	June 1238 • England

Sir Francis Walsingham

Sir Francis Walsingham

English statesman

Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick

Richard Beauchamp, 13th earl of Warwick

English soldier and diplomat

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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

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Sir Nicholas Throckmorton

English diplomat

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Sir George Downing

English diplomat

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John Digby, 1st earl of Bristol

English diplomat

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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

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Sir Richard Fanshawe, 1st Baronet

English poet and translator

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Giles Fletcher the Elder

English author

St. Gregory the Great

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

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Myron C. Taylor

American financier and diplomat

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Sir Arthur Purves Phayre

British colonial official

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Matthäus Lang

German statesman and cardinal

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Matthäus Schiner

Swiss diplomat

Fesch, detail of a lithograph by the de Becquet brothers after a drawing by Fischer

Joseph Fesch

French cardinal