Robert Brancetour was a 16th-century English merchant who was a member of the court of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. He was attainted by Henry VIII who repeatedly tried to have Brancetour arrested, but was thwarted by Charles V's protection. Brancetour was an associate of Cardinal Pole.[1]
He is said to have been the first Englishman to travel to Safavid Persia.[2]
References
edit- ^ p.147, Robert Hutchinson, Henry VIII: The Decline and Fall of a Tyrant, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2019, ISBN 978-1474605793
- ^ Houston, Chloë (1 May 2023). Persia in Early Modern English Drama, 1530–1699: The Imagined Empire. Springer Nature. ISBN 978-3-031-22618-2.
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