Anthony Fortescue

Anthony Fortescue (d. 1570/71) was an English conspirator. It has generally been thought that he was the third son of Sir Adrian Fortescue, but this Anthony Fortescue had already left England and was settled in Padua when the conspiracy was hatched in the autumn of 1562.^[1]

^ This older tradition runs from Thomas Fortescue's History of the Family of Fortescue (1880) down to the present day, e.g. William Wizeman, ‘Fortescue, sir Anthony (b. c. 1535, d. in or after 1611), in :Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

[1] This older tradition runs from Thomas Fortescue's History of the Family of Fortescue (1880) down to the present day, e.g. William Wizeman, ‘Fortescue, sir Anthony (b. c. 1535, d. in or after 1611), in :Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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