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329: 206:, the Protector's great-uncle; the two sons, Henry and Tobie, married, on 10 April 1606, Sir Oliver's two daughters by a previous marriage, Catharine and Jane; and the daughter, Baptina, married Sir Oliver's eldest son and heir, Henry. Subsequently, another family member, Peter Palavicino, came to England as a merchant, was knighted on 19 June 1687, and died in February 1694. 69:, and appointed collector of papal taxes. On Mary's death, Palavicino, according to tradition, renounced his Roman Catholic faith, and, appropriating the sums he had collected for the Pope, laid the foundations of an enormous fortune. Devoting himself to commercial enterprise, he seems to have extended his business operations to most quarters of the globe. 145:. He was consulted by Burghley about raising money to meet the invasion, equipped a vessel at his own cost, and was present as a volunteer during the operations in the Channel and at Calais. It is generally stated that he commanded a vessel against the Armada, and his portrait was among the captains commemorated in the 165:
to Elizabeth until her advances to the Dutch had been repaid, and to receive the support and perpetual alliance of England. Alexander rejected these proposals with indignation, declaring that had Palavicino recommended them in person he would have killed him; he sent a detailed account of the affair
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Palavicino's position as a collector of political intelligence was equally important, and his numerous commercial correspondents frequently enabled him to forestall all other sources of information. He was himself often employed by the government to furnish intelligence from abroad; he was acting in
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interest; so greatly was Elizabeth indebted to him that the fate of the kingdom was said to have depended upon him; while on one occasion he furnished Henry of Navarre with no less than one hundred thousand French crowns. Palavicino was also a dealer in luxury goods. He sold suites of tapestry to
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of Antwerp; she received patent of denization in England in the following year. With her Palavicino had two sons and a daughter: Henry, who died on 14 October 1615, without issue; and Tobie, who was born on 20 May 1593 at Babraham. Tobie squandered his father's wealth, was imprisoned in
178:, near Cambridge. He died at Babraham in July 1600, and was buried there. His will is given in the "Calendar of State Papers". The Queen owed him nearly £29,000, which subsequently formed a matter of frequent dispute between his sons and the government, and was never fully paid. 174:, ambassador at the Hague, and other diplomatists. His principal business was the negotiation of loans for the English and Dutch governments. In 1594 he once more applied for license to go abroad, but his active employment ceased soon afterwards, and he retired to his manor of 169:
In February 1589–90, Palavicino was sent into Germany, with an allowance of 50 shillings a day for diet; in July he went as envoy to the French king; in November he was again in Germany, which he revisited in 1591 and 1592, maintaining a correspondence with the government, Sir
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While in the Low Countries Palavicino married a certain "very mean person", whom he did not wish to acknowledge as his wife while his father was alive; they had one son, Edward, who, in deference to the wish of his second wife, he declared illegitimate and disinherited.
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In the following October Palavicino attempted on his own account a political intrigue, in which the English government was probably not implicated, though Walsingham may have suggested some such scheme to Palavicino. He wrote to
342: 46:; several members of it were appointed regents of Genoa by the Dukes of Milan, and more than one became a cardinal. One was in the service of the English kings, 121:, was imprisoned, he sought the aid of Palavicino, as being "an honest man", in preparing his defence. On 7 February 1585–6, Palavicino was recommended by 202:
Palavicino's family became closely connected with the Cromwells by a remarkable series of marriages. His widow, a year and a day after his death, married
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to Philip, who suggested that Palavicino should be invited to Flanders, and should be punished after he had disclosed all the information he could.
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this capacity in 1581. In June he appears to have experienced some trouble for refusing to go to church. In 1583 he was at Paris befriending
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Many years after his first wife's death Palavicino married in Frankfurt, on 27 April 1591, Anne, daughter of
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Horatio's parents were Tobias Palavicino and his wife Battina; the family handled the papal monopoly of
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Early in 1588 he was in Germany; he returned before the summer, and asked to serve against the
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as an agent for the family firm. Later he moved to England, where he was recommended to
19:(c. 1540 – 5 July 1600), born in Italy, was a financier and political agent in England. 142: 77:
The wealth he thus acquired made him an important financial agent. He lent largely to
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that Palavicino was willing to join in the western voyage. In 1585, when
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in the Low Countries, and in the same year, he was granted a patent of
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for the withdrawing chamber and privy chamber used by Elizabeth I at
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Alexander Farnese, the Spanish commander in the Netherlands
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Financial agent, and political intelligence from abroad
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Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants
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celebrated Italian family
Stato Pallavicino
it
Genoa
Henry VIII
Edward VI
alum
Antwerp
Queen Mary
Queen Elizabeth
Henry of Navarre
usurious
Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex
Newhall
William Parry
Richard Hakluyt
Francis Walsingham
Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel
Burghley
Leicester
denization
Spanish Armada
House of Lords' Tapestry
Alexander Farnese, the Spanish commander in the Netherlands
Philip
Cautionary Towns
Thomas Bodley
Babraham
Gillis Hooftman
the Fleet

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