Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar

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title: Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar
text: Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Count of Gondomar, was a Spanish (Galician) diplomat. He served as the Spanish ambassador to England from 1613 to 1622 and afterwards, as a kind of ambassador emeritus, Spain's leading expert on English affairs until his death. The popular notion in England of his day painted him as the head of a Spanish faction at the English court, as privy to the inner thoughts of King James I, and as a fiendish schemer for Popery. The term "Machiavellian" was brought into common Eng
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description: Spanish diplomat (1567–1626)
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