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15 de mar. de 2012 · This chapter considers William Cecil's role in the government of the national Protestant church in Ireland and his views on the progress of religious reform in the kingdom, culminating in Lord Burghley's appointment in 1592 as the first chancellor of Ireland's first university: Trinity College in Dublin. Religion, it will be argued, though a ...
William Cecil, raised to the peerage as first Baron Burghley, who served as secretary of state under Edward VI and then as Queen Elizabeth I's chief minister and lord high treasurer of England, more than any other individual of the age, it will be argued, dictated the course and the character of the connection between England and Ireland in the sixteenth century.
William Cecil. William Cecil, 1.º Barão de Burghley ( Bourne, 13 de setembro de 1520 — Londres, 4 de agosto de 1598) foi um estadista inglês, o principal conselheiro da rainha Isabel I durante a maior parte do seu reinado, duas vezes secretário de Estado (1550 a 1553 e de 1558 a 1572) e Lord High Treasurer de 1572 até sua morte.
Lord Burghley 500. Celebrating the 500th anniversary of William Cecil’s birth. Immediately on her accession in 1558, Queen Elizabeth I appointed William Cecil by her personal charge as her most trusted advisor. Thus began the most remarkable 40-year partnership in English history, both of them living to almost twice the life expectancy of the ...
7 de mar. de 2019 · William Cecil. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and influence of the 1st Baron Burghley, Elizabeth I's powerful Secretary of State who advanced England's interests throughout her reign ...
16 de may. de 2020 · William Cecil’s ‘London Palace’ was an imposing mansion with four turrets, one in each corner. His brother-in-law, (who supervised building work when Cecil was in Scotland and kept him informed by letter) was concerned, however, that the privies were too near an oven and larder and wrote ‘It would have been better to have offended the eye outward than the nose inward’.
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.
