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Knollys, Francis

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Knollys, Francis (c.1514–1596)

English politician and diplomat. A staunch Protestant, he was made the first custodian of Mary Queen of Scots, from 1568 to 1569, during her long imprisonment in England by Elizabeth I.

Knollys, a descendant of Sir Thomas Knollys, Lord Mayor of London (d.1435), was educated at Oxford. For his military service in Scotland in the reign of Edward VI, he was knighted in 1547. When the devout Catholic Mary I ascended the throne, he left England, but returned to serve Elizabeth I, who sent him on a mission to Ireland in 1566.



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