Guerau de Espés

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Guerau de Espés del Valle (1524 in

John Man, English ambassador in Madrid, had called the pope a sanctimonious little monk and so Philip II replaced the priest Diego de Silva y Guzmán with Espés as ambassador to England. Due to his hostility to the English, Espés described William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, one of the most powerful and influential noblemen in England at that time, to Philip II as

a common man, although very clever, false, lying, a great heretic and foolish enough to believe that not all the princes of Christendom combined were in a position to violate his country's sovereignty.

In the Spanish Netherlands the

In a letter dated 14 February 1569 Espés wrote that John Hawkins had founded a colony in Florida in lieu of that lost at San Juan de Ulúa.^[3][4] He was finally expelled from England for his alleged complicity in the Ridolfi plot.^[5][6] He also had a surviving correspondence in April 1571.^[7]

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