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According to Cecil's own chronology of his life, he sat in Parliament in 1543. He was knighted in 1551, and became a member of the Privy Council (and the principal secretary) from 1550 until 1553. He spent the last three years of Mary's reign privately in Wimbledon. Cecil's public life began again in November 1558, when he started working on ...
Firma. William Cecil, I barone Burghley ( Bourne, 13 settembre 1520 – Londra, 4 agosto 1598 ), è stato un politico e nobile inglese, primo consigliere della regina Elisabetta I d'Inghilterra, per due volte Segretario di Stato ( 1550 - 1553 e 1558 - 1572) e Lord custode del sigillo privato ( 1571 - 1572 e 1590 - 1598 ); fu anche Lord gran ...
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, 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.
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’s managerial experiences began early in the reign of Edward VI. Fresh from Cambridge and Gray’s Inn, he rose meteorically. In his late twenties he became the right-hand man of Protector Somerset; when Somerset fell in 1549, Cecil was imprisoned in the Tower for a brief time, and then quickly became equally close to Somerset’s successor, Northumberland.
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 ...
