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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 ...
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 And Elizabeth I: The Power Couple of the Tudor Age. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, that great Elizabethan statesman whose name is inextricably linked with his royal mistress, Queen Elizabeth I, also known as the Virgin Queen. In today’s blog, I talk with Professor Sue Doran of ...
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 ...
William Cecil, 1. baron Burghley (13. září 1520 Bourne, Lincolnshire, Anglie – 4. srpna 1598 Londýn) byl anglický státník. Spolu s Francisem Walsinghamem patřil čtyřicet let k nejvýznamnějším ministrům královny Alžběty I. a pomáhal udržovat velmocenské postavení Anglie druhé poloviny 16. století.
Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley, succeeded Sir William Paulet, first marquess of Winchester, as lord high treasurer of England in July 1572. Paulet had died in March, having been head of the royal treasury for twenty-one years.
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.
