Ambassadors to the Holy Roman Emperor

• 1603-1604: Stephen Lesieur Special Ambassador

  1605-?: Sir Andrew Keith Special Ambassador

  1610-1611: Sir Stephen Lesieur Special Ambassador

  1612-1613: William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros

  William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros

  William Cecil, 17th Baron de Ros of Helmsley .He was born at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, and baptised on 4 June 1590. In 1591, he inherited the barony of de Ros from his mother, Elizabeth Cecil, 16th Baroness de Ros. On 13 February 1615, he married Ann Lake.He was sent by King James I on a...

  
   Special Ambassador

  1612-1614: Sir Stephen Lesieur Special Ambassador

• 1619-1620: James Hay, 1st Viscount Doncaster
  James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle
  James Hay, 1st Earl of Carlisle was a Scottish aristocrat.-Life:He was the son of Sir James Hay of Fingask , and of Margaret Murray, cousin of George Hay, afterwards 1st Earl of Kinnoull.He was knighted and taken into favor by James VI of Scotland, brought into England in 1603, treated as a "prime...
  
  
• 1620-1621: Sir Henry Wotton
  Henry Wotton
  Sir Henry Wotton was an English author and diplomat. He is often quoted as saying, "An ambassador is an honest gentleman sent to lie abroad for the good of his country." -Life:The son of Thomas Wotton , brother of Edward Wotton, 1st Baron Wotton, and grandnephew of the diplomat...
  
  
• 1621: John Digby, Baron Digby
  John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol
  John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol , was an English diplomat and a moderate royalist during the English Civil War.- Early career :...
  
  
• 1621-1622: Simon Digby
  Simon Digby
  Simon Digby was an English antiquary and Constable of Coleshill, in Warwickshire in the 15th century.Simon de Montford was executed in 1495 for contributing to the fund of Perkin Warbeck, who was plotting to oust King Henry VII from the throne...
  
  

• 1635-1639: John Taylor Agent
• 1636: Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
  Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel
  Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel KG, was a prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician. When he died he possessed 700 paintings, along with large collections of sculpture,...
  
  
• 1641-1642: Sir Thomas Roe

Envoys to the Holy Roman Emperor

• 1665-1667: Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford
  Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford
  Theobald Taaffe, 1st Earl of Carlingford , known as 2nd Viscount Taaffe, of Corren and 2nd Baron of Ballymote between 1642 and 1661, was a Royalist officer who played a prominent part in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and accompanied Charles II in exile...
  
  
• 1672-1673: Sir Bernard Gascoigne
• 1673: Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
  Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough
  Henry Mordaunt, 2nd Earl of Peterborough, KG, PC, FRS was an English soldier, peer and courtier.-Early life:Styled Lord Mordaunt from 1628, he was the eldest son of John Mordaunt, 1st Earl of Peterborough...
  
   Ambassador Extraordinary
• 1675-1681: Bevil Skelton
  Bevil Skelton
  Bevil Skelton was a British foreign envoy and diplomat.Probably descended from the Skeltons of Armthwaite Castle, Cumberland, Bevil Skelton began his career as a colonel in the British Army, eventually rising to the position of Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal English Regiment in France from 1672...
  
  
• 1680-1681: Chalres Middleton, 2nd Earl of Middleton
• 1688-1689: Nicholas Taafe, 2nd Earl of Carlingford
• 1689-1692: William Paget, 7th Baron Paget Envoy Extraordinary
  • 1693: George Stepney
    George Stepney
    George Stepney was an English poet and diplomat.Stepney was the son of George Stepney, groom of the chamber to Charles II, and was born at Westminster...
    
     Secretary or agent
• 1694-1697: Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton
  Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton
  Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton PC was an English diplomat.-Family:He was the son of Robert Sutton, 1st Baron Lexinton and his third wife Mary St. Leger.On 14 September 1691, he married Margaret Hungerford Robert Sutton, 2nd Baron Lexinton PC (6 January 1662 – 19 September 1723) was an English...
  
   Envoy Extraordinary
• 1697-1700: Robert Sutton
  Robert Sutton (diplomat)
  Sir Robert Sutton KB was an English diplomat and then politician.-Early life:He was the elder son of Robert Sutton of Averham, Nottinghamshire, and his wife, Katherine, the daughter of the Revd William Sherborne of Pembridge, Herefordshire...
  
   Secretary then Resident
• 1701-1705: George Stepney
  George Stepney
  George Stepney was an English poet and diplomat.Stepney was the son of George Stepney, groom of the chamber to Charles II, and was born at Westminster...
  
   Envoy Extraordinary
  • 1703-1704: Charles Whitworth
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth of Galway
    Charles Whitworth, 1st Baron Whitworth was a British diplomat.-Early life and education:Whitworth was possibly born at Blore Pike, near Eccleshall, Staffordshire. He entered Westminster School as a Queen's Scholar in 1690, and then entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1694...
    
     Chargé d'Affaires
• 1705: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
  Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
  Sir Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland KG PC , known as Lord Spencer from 1688 to 1702, was an English statesman...
  
  
• 1706: Thomas Wentworth, Baron Raby
  • 1707: Charles Montagu, Earl of Manchester
    Charles Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester
    Charles Edward Montagu, 1st Duke of Manchester, 4th Earl of Manchester , son of Robert Montagu, 3rd Earl of Manchester, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and succeeded to his father's earldom in 1683...
    
     Special Mission

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