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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley - Statesman, Adviser, Queen Elizabeth I: As a statesman Burghley saw that his duty was to give the Queen his best advice and then to carry out whatever policy seemed expedient to her. His loyalty in this task won Elizabeth’s confidence. A master of discretion, Burghley as a royal servant assumed an official mask and learned “to walk invisible.” His ...
William Cecil, Königin Elisabeth I. und Francis Walsingham (Kupferstich von William Faithorne, 1655) William Cecil trug in hohem Maße zu Elisabeths Neuordnung der englischen Kirche bei (Anglican Settlement). Cecil fürchtete den Katholizismus mehr als politische denn als religiöse Gefahr.
Mary Cecil, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney (paternal grandmother) William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter (paternal great-grandfather) William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil (August 17, 1928 – October 31, 2017) was an English - American businessman. He was the owner of the Biltmore Estate through his company, The Biltmore Company .
If there is one man who shaped the State Papers it was William Cecil, first Baron of Burghley, Elizabeth I’s Secretary (1558-72) and Lord Treasurer (1572-1598). Burghley was many men rolled into one, the consummate servant of the Crown: in Britain today he would be Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cabinet ...
21 de may. de 2018 · Burghley, William Cecil, 1st Baron (1520–98) English statesman and chief minister of Elizabeth I of England. He was secretary of state (1550–53) under Edward VI but failed to win Mary I 's favour on her accession to the throne. On Mary's death, Elizabeth I made Burghley secretary of state (1558–72) and then lord high treasurer (1572–98).
William Cecil, raised to the peerage as first Baron Burghley, who served as secretary of state under Edward VI and then as Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister and lord high treasurer of England, more than any other individual of the age, it will be argued, dictated the course and the character of the connection between England and Ireland in the sixteenth century.
William Cecil was born into an old and wealthy family. His father, Richard Cecil, owned the vast Burghley estate in Northamptonshire (now in Cambridgeshire) and his mother was Jane Heckington. Cecil's grandfather, David, had been King Henry VII 's (1457–1509) yeoman of the guard, and he had served under Henry VIII (1491–1547; see entry) as sergeant-of-arms and as sheriff of Northamptonshire.
