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Francis Castilion (1561-1638) was the member of the
Parliament of England The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England from the 13th century until 1707 when it was replaced by the Parliament of Great Britain. Parliament evolved from the great council of bishops and peers that advised t ...
for
Great Bedwyn Great Bedwyn is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in east Wiltshire, England. The village is on the River Dun (River Kennet), River Dun about southwest of Hungerford, southeast of Swindon and southeast of Marlborough, Wilt ...
for the parliament of 1597.CASTILION, Francis (1561-1638), of Benham Valence, Berks
''The History of Parliament''. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
His father,
Giovanni Battista Castiglione Giovanni Battista Castiglione (1516–1598) was the Italian tutor of Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth I. It is speculated that he taught Prince (later King) Edward VI. A humanist reformer, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1556 by Eliza ...
, had been an Italian tutor and later a groom of the privy chamber to Queen Elizabeth.


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Members of Parliament for Great Bedwyn English MPs 1597–1598 1561 births 1638 deaths {{16thC-England-MP-stub