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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. (1520 or 1521-1598), Lord High Treasurer. Sitter associated with 45 portraits. William Cecil served both Edward VI and Mary I but exercised most power when chief minister to their sister Elizabeth I. When she ascended to the throne, Elizabeth's first appointment was to make Cecil her principal secretary of ...
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 ...
23 de sept. de 2015 · Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, seems the very epitome of the faceless bureaucrat. He served Queen Elizabeth I for 40 years, first as Secretary, then as Lord Treasurer. He was at her side from the very first moment of her reign, until a few days before his death in 1598. During this time he wrote thousands of memos, dictated thousands more ...
During the 1590s new threats arose – rebellion in Ireland, faction at home as Burghley’s former ward, the Earl of Essex and his son, Robert Cecil, clashed for supremacy. Spain, too, was undefeated and there were always fears of invasion. By 1598, Burghley was weakening, but he continued to attend Council meetings whenever he could, his last ...
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]
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, 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 ...
