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27) Sir Francis Drake -
Drake was a famous traveler, navigator, and politician from England. He managed to circumnavigate the world in 1577 and has been proclaimed a legend in England. Drake was an exceptionally smart individual and had an estimated I.Q. of 130. Sir Francis was a powerful man that happened to have an incredibly powerful brain.
Sir Francis Drake,
Vice Admiral
(1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English
sea captain
,
privateer
,
navigator
,
slaver
, and
politician
of the
Elizabethan era
.
Elizabeth I of England
awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the
Spanish Armada
in 1588. He also carried out the second
circumnavigation
of the world, from 1577 to 1580. He died of
dysentery
in January 1596
[1]
after unsuccessfully attacking
San Juan, Puerto Rico
.
His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a
pirate
to the
Spaniards
to whom he was known as El Draque,
Draque
being the Spanish pronunciation of "Drake". His name in
Latinised
form was Franciscus Draco (Francis the Dragon).
[2]
King
Philip II
was said to have offered a reward of 20,000
ducats
,
[3]
about £4 million (US$6.5M) by modern standards, for his life.
Birth and early years
Francis Drake was born in
Tavistock, Devon
, in February
or March 1544
at the earliest, when his namesake
godfather
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
was age 17.
Although Drake's birth is not formally recorded
, it is known that he was born while the
Six Articles
were in force. "Drake was two and twenty when he obtained the command of the
Judith
" (1566). This would date his birth to 1544.
A date of c.1540 is suggested from two portraits: one
a
miniature
painted by
Nicholas Hilliard
in 1581 when he was allegedly 42, the other painted in 1594 when he was said to be 53.
He was the eldest of the twelve sons of Edmund Drake (1518–1585),
a
Protestant
farmer, and his wife
Mary Mylwaye
. The first son was reportedly named after his
godfather
Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford
.
Because of religious persecution during the
Prayer Book Rebellion
in 1549, the Drake family fled from Devonshire into Kent. There the father obtained an appointment to minister to men in the King's Navy. He was ordained deacon and made vicar of
Upnor Church
upon the Medway.
[4]
Drake's father apprenticed Francis to his neighbour, the master of a
barque
used for coastal trade transporting merchandise to France.
[4]
The ship master was so satisfied with the young Drake's conduct that, being unmarried and childless at his death, he bequeathed the barque to Drake.
Marriage and family
Francis Drake married Mary Newman in 1569. She died 12 years later, in 1581. In 1585, Drake married Elizabeth Sydenham—born circa 1562, the only child of Sir George Sydenham, of
Combe Sydenham
,
[10]
who was the
High Sheriff of Somerset
.
[11]
After Drake's death, the widow Elizabeth eventually married Sir
William Courtenay
of Powderham.
[12]
As Sir Francis Drake had no children, his estate and titles passed on to his nephew (also named Francis).
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