Francis Bacon needed an author for the plays other than himself. Shake-speare was a good name because the shaker-of-the-spear is associated with Pallus Athenea the muse and protector of poets. Francis thus became a "Spear-Shaker", and the head of the little band of "Spear-Shakers" was "Shake-Speare" himself, Athena's visible representative on earth.
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The first woman in Francis Tudor's (Francis Bacon's) life was his mother, Elizabeth Tudor, Queen Elizabeth I. She was very well educated and complicated - never fully negecting him. She made sure he was well educated by fostering him to Anthony and Anne Bacon. She he ignored him for periods of time once he was grown. To the public she remained a virgin possibly believing that was a source of her political strength though was secretely married to Robert Dudly. She evenually rejected Dudly who died in ... Even in her final years she wouldn't open the way to the throne for Francis. She may have been protective of her eldest son because aspiring noble men didn't live long in those days. .
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The next woman in his life was his step mother Anne Cook Bacon. She and her sisters were famous as a family of accomplished classical scholars. She had a thorough knowledge of Greek and Latin. An Apologie . . . in defence of the Churche of England by Dr. Jewel, Bishop of Salisbury, was translated by her from the Latin and published in 1564. Sir Anthony had been exiled during Mary's reign, for his adherence to the Protestant faith. His daughter, Anne, inherited, not only his classical accomplishments, but his strong Puritan faith and his hatred of Popery. Francis Bacon describes her as "A Saint of God." There is a portrait of her painted by Nathaniel Bacon, her stepson, in which she appears standing in her pantry habited as a cook.
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While in France young Francis fell head over heals in love with Marguerite of Valios a member of the french royal court
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When he was 36, Bacon engaged in the courtship of Elizabeth Hatton, a young widow of 20. Reportedly, she broke off their relationship upon accepting marriage to a wealthier man—Edward Coke. Years later, Bacon still wrote of his regret that the marriage to Elizabeth had never taken place.
After the death of William Hatton in 1597, and after a failed wooing by Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Hatton married Edward Coke. Elizabeth's often public disagreements with her second husband, together with her refusal to take his name, gave her a reputation as a troublesome woman. That reputation — along with a liberal dose of mistaken identity — led to the association of Elizabeth Hatton with the urban legend of Bleeding Heart Yard.
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At the age of forty-five, Bacon married Alice Barnham, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a well-connected London alderman and M.P. Bacon wrote two sonnets proclaiming his love for Alice. The first sonnet was written during his courtship and the second sonnet on his wedding day, 10 May 1606.
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