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5 de ago. de 2010 · Thomas Cecil became the 1st Earl of Exeter and was a member of Elizabeth I’s government. Cecil’s second marriage to Mildred produced a son, Robert, in June 1563, who, after Cecil’s death in 1598, became Elizabeth’s leading minister. Cecil and Mildred had three daughters and two other sons, but Cecil outlived all of his children except ...
William Cecil, 1e baron Burghley ( Bourne, 13 september 1520 - Londen, 15 augustus 1598) was achtereenvolgens secretaris van Eduard VI en Maria I van Engeland en de belangrijkste adviseur van koningin Elizabeth I van Engeland. Hij speelde een belangrijke rol in de berechting van koningin Maria I van Schotland. Hij liet Burghley House bouwen.
William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter, KG PC (1566 – 6 July 1640), known as the third Lord Burghley from 1605 to 1623, was an English nobleman, politician, and peer. Life [ edit ] Exeter was the son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter , and Dorothy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer . [1]
8 de ago. de 1998 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was Lord High Treasurer of England when he died, aged seventy-seven, in his London house in Covent Garden. Sprung from a comfortably-off country gentry family with connections at court, Cecil had made his way up originally as personal secretary to Protector Somerset after Henry VIII's death.
William Cecil’s consistent attention to Ireland was not lost on members of the Tudor political establishment: he became towards the end of his career in the eyes of some the ‘careful father’ of the kingdom of Ireland, with Elizabeth implicitly cast as its distant and disinterested mother.
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State and Lord High Treasurer from 1572. In his description in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, A.F. Pollard wrote, "From 1558 for forty years the biography of Cecil is almost indistinguishable from that of Elizabeth and from the history of ...
It was against this backdrop that William Cecil approached Ireland matters. He had already, on a busy day in July 1559, drafted instructions to be carried out by the earl of Sussex (lately appointed lord lieutenant of Ireland) and drew up a series of memoranda, including lists of Irish and English lords to whom the new queen's letters were to be sent, and a record of the major appointments in ...
