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Sir
Robert Shirley (c.
1581 –
July 13,
1628) was an
English traveller and adventurer, younger brother of
Sir Anthony Shirley.
He went with his brother to
Persia in 1598. Anthony was in
Safavid Persia from
December 1,
1599 to May
1600. He was given 5,000
horses to train the Persian
army according to the rules and customs of the
English militia. He was also commanded to reform and retrain the
artillery. When he left Persia, he left his brother, Robert, behind with fourteen Englishmen who lived in Persia for years. Having married a
Circassian lady he stayed in Persia until 1608 when the
Shah sent him on a diplomatic errand to
James I and to other European princes. He was employed, as his brother had been, as
ambassador to several princes of
Christendom, for the purpose of uniting them in a confederacy against the
Turks.
He went first to
Poland, where he was entertained by
Sigismund III Vasa. In June of that year he was in
Germany, and received from the
Emperor Rudolph II the title of
Earl (
count palatine) and knight of the
Roman Empire.
Pope Paul V also conferred upon him the title of Earl. From Germany Sir Robert went to
Florence and from thence to
Rome, where he entered, attended by a suite of eighteen persons, on Sunday,
27 September,
1609. He next visited
Milan, and then proceeded to
Genoa, whence he embarked to
Spain, arriving in
Barcelona in December 1609. He sent for his Persian wife and they remained in Spain, principally at
Madrid, until the
summer of 1611.
In 1613 he returned to Persia, but in 1615 he came back to Europe and lived for some years in Madrid. His third journey to Persia was undertaken in 1627, but soon after reaching the country he died at
Qazvin.
His elder brother
Sir Thomas was also a noted adventurer.
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