Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count de
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▪ Spanish diplomat and ambassador
born Nov. 1, 1567
died Oct. 2, 1626
Spanish diplomat and ambassador to England who became one of the most influential men at the court of
James I of England.
Gondomar's diplomatic fame rests largely on two missions to England (1613–18 and 1620–22). The chief objective of his first mission was to persuade James I to abandon his alliance with France and the Protestant countries on the Continent and to form an alliance with Catholic Spain. His courtly manners and keen intellect, as well as his tantalizing offers of the Spanish infanta as James's daughter-in-law, gained him great influence with the English king; on occasion he could even dictate royal policy. His power over James, coupled with his pro-Catholic attitudes, gained him the hostility of the English public. The dramatist Thomas Middleton made him the hero-villain (the Black Knight) of his play A Game at Chaess (1625), which was suppressed. At the height of his unpopularity in 1622, Gondomar was recalled to Spain and there made a member of the Council of State.
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Universalium.
2010.
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