Diego Guzmán de Silva (

Ciudad Rodrigo Ciudad Rodrigo () is a small cathedral city in the province of Salamanca (province), Salamanca, in western Spain, with a population in 2016 of 12,896. It is also the seat of a judicial district. The site of Ciudad Rodrigo, perched atop a rocky r ...

, c. 1520 -

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, 1577) was a Spanish

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and diplomat. He served as ambassador to England (then under

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), the

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and the

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. Guzman saw that Elizabeth I wore a miniature portrait of

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, on a chain at her waist in April 1566. He wrote a number of letters describing the arrival of Mary, Queen of Scots, in England in May 1568, and the efforts of French and Scottish diplomats on her behalf.Martin Hume
''Calendar State Papers Spain, Simancas'', 2 (London, 1894), pp. 42, 56
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Depictions

Guzman is depicted as the ambassador of Spain to Britain during the reign of Edward VI in '' Becoming Elizabeth''.

References

1520 births 1577 deaths People from Ciudad Rodrigo Ambassadors of Spain to the Republic of Venice Ambassadors of Spain to the Kingdom of England Ambassadors to the Republic of Genoa 16th-century Spanish diplomats {{spain-diplomat-stub