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Cecil (created Earl of Salisbury in 1605) was the younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by his second wife, Mildred Cooke, eldest daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke of Gidea, Essex. His elder half-brother was Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and philosopher Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Albans, was his first cousin.
- Elizabeth Brooke
- James I
- 2, including William
- The Earl of Dorset
5 de abr. de 2024 · Robert Cecil, 1st earl of Salisbury (born June 1, 1563, London—died May 24, 1612, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Eng.) was an English statesman who succeeded his father, William Cecil, Lord Burghley, as Queen Elizabeth I’s chief minister in 1598 and skillfully directed the government during the first nine years of the reign of King James I. Cecil ...
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25 de jul. de 2023 · Cecil’s older half-brother, Sir Thomas Cecil, succeeded their father as 2nd Baron Burghley in 1598. In August 1589, Cecil married Elizabeth Brooke, the daughter of William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham. The couple had a son and daughter before Lady Cecil’s death in 1597. Cecil never remarried.
Abstract Lord Burghley’s “Ten Precepts” has never been edited adequately, as the standard text (in Louis B. Wright’s Advice to a Son) modernizes an early but inferior transcript. After tracing the initial manuscript circulation of the “Ten Precepts,” the present essay establishes a critical edition based on the earliest surviving transcripts. A stemma traces the descent of these ...
10 de jun. de 2020 · William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598 CE) was Elizabeth I of England's most important minister for much of her reign (1558-1603 CE). Lord Burghley was Secretary of State for both Edward VI of England (r. 1547-1553 CE) and Elizabeth.
- Mark Cartwright
Cecil family. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (born Sept. 13, 1520, Bourne, Lincolnshire, Eng.—died Aug. 5, 1598, London) was the 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 ...
20 de ene. de 2015 · Considering the importance of the ‘Ten precepts’ to the intertwined biographies of its eminent author and its equally eminent recipient, remarkably little is known about when and why William Cecil, Lord Burghley, wrote this advice for his son, Robert.
