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Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de

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Gondomar, Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de (gŏn`dəmär, Span. dyā`gō särmyān`tō thā äk`nyä kōn`dā thā gōndōmär`), 1567?–1626, Spanish ambassador to England (1613–18, 1620–22). He gained great influence over James I James I, 1566–1625, king of England (1603–25) and, as James VI, of Scotland (1567–1625). James's reign witnessed the beginnings of English colonization in North America (Jamestown was founded in 1607) and the plantation of Scottish settlers in
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 and dissuaded him from giving real assistance to James's son-in-law, Frederick the Winter King Frederick the Winter King, 1596–1632, king of Bohemia (1619–20), elector palatine (1610–20) as Frederick V. The Protestant diet of Bohemia deposed the Roman Catholic King Ferdinand (Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II ) and chose Frederick as king.
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, at the outset of the Thirty Years War Thirty Years War, 1618–48, general European war fought mainly in Germany.

General Character of the War



There were many territorial, dynastic, and religious issues that figured in the outbreak and conduct of the war.
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. He also demanded the execution (1618) of Sir Walter Raleigh Raleigh or Ralegh, Sir Walter (both: rŏl`ē, răl`ē)
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. Gondomar was highly unpopular in England and was attacked in Thomas Middleton Middleton, Thomas, 1580–1627, English dramatist, b. London, grad. Queen's College, Oxford, 1598. His early plays were chiefly written in collaboration with Dekker, Drayton, and others.
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