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9 de sept. de 2020 · William Cecil (1520/1–98) appears omnipresent in Elizabethan history. His proximity to Queen Elizabeth I – and the dominant role that he played in government – makes it hard to write a history of the reign without seeing it partly through Cecil’s eyes.
- Rachel Dinning
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, was a principal adviser to England’s Queen Elizabeth I through most of her reign. Cecil was a master of Renaissance statecraft, whose talents as a diplomat, politician, and administrator won him high office and a peerage.
Private life. William Cecil's private life was upright; he was a faithful husband, a careful father and a dutiful master. A book-lover and antiquarian, he made a special hobby of heraldry and genealogy. It was the conscious and unconscious aim of the age to reconstruct a new landed aristocracy on the ruins of the old, Catholic order.
William Cecil, I barón de Burghley ( Lincolnshire, 13 de septiembre de 1520 – Londres, 4 de agosto de 1598) fue un estadista inglés, principal consejero de la reina Isabel I durante la mayor parte de su reinado, dos veces secretario de Estado (1550-1553 y 1558-1572) y lord alto tesorero desde 1572.
10 de jun. de 2020 · Perhaps it is true that William Cecil's greatest achievement was a personal one: longevity at the pinnacle of power. When he was gravely ill and dying in August 1598 CE, Queen Elizabeth fed her long-time political ally with a spoon.
- Mark Cartwright
Vida y Biografía de William Cecil (William Cecil, barón de Burghley o Burleigh; Bourne, 1520-Londres, 1598) Político inglés. Fue uno de los más importantes consejeros de Isabel I y apoyó a la Iglesia anglicana. No logró eludir el combate con España (episodio de la Armada Invencible en 1588), decretó las poor laws y fortaleció la flota.
Cecil married Cheke's daughter Mary in 1541 and entered Gray's Inn the same year. Mary died a year after the birth of their first son Thomas, but Cecil remarried in December 1545. His new wife was Mildred, daughter of the protestant humanist Sir Anthony Cooke. His political career gathered pace after the early 1540s.
