Anthony Bacon

Anthony Bacon (b 1558) was an English gentleman. He was the eldest son of Nicholas and Anne Bacon and a nephew of William Cecil. He was a Protestant and was loyal to Queen Elizabeth. He and his foster brother, Francis Bacon, were frequently suspected of heresy and sedition by the English Inquisition and the forces of Spanish-backed Catholic monarchs Queen Isabella and King Albert.

In 1598 Captain Baltasar Guzman of the Spanish army discovered evidence that Anthony Bacon was a homosexual and went to arrest him. Bacon eluded arrest, fled England with his young lover Thomas, and sought and was granted asylum at the court of King Christian IV of Denmark.