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Mildred Cecil, Baroness Burghley (née Cooke; 1526 – 4 April 1589) was an English noblewoman and translator. She was the wife of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, the most trusted adviser of Elizabeth I, and the mother of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, adviser to James I .
- 1526
- Westminster Abbey, London
- translator
Mildred Cooke came from the influential Cooke family of Gidea Hall, Essex, a household renowned for its links with Renaissance humanism and reformist sympathies. Her father, Sir Anthony Cooke, was a royal tutor to King Edward VI; shaping the boy king’s interest in classical learning and Protestantism.
MILDRED COOKE, LADY CECIL AND BARONESS BURGHLEY. BORN: 1526 DIED: 1589. Second wife of William Cecil, mother of Robert Cecil. Daughter of Sir Anthony Cooke. Made translations of Greek texts which were never formally published in her lifetime.
En el año 1545 volvió a contraer matrimonio con una erudita y piadosa dama protestante, Mildred Cooke, con lo que consiguió el favor y el respeto definitivo de los personajes más poderosos e influyentes de la corte, entre los que se hallaban su propio suegro sir Anthony Cooke, su anterior cuñado John Cheeke, su futuro protector Edward ...
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley KG PC (13 September 1520 – 4 August 1598) was an English statesman, the chief adviser of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign, twice Secretary of State (1550–1553 and 1558–1572) and Lord High Treasurer from 1572.
11 de nov. de 2020 · William Cecil served as Elizabeth I’s senior minister from her accession in 1558 to his death in 1598. He ceaselessly counselled, planned and manoeuvred, the solid foil to a brilliant and complex woman. In 1571, the queen rewarded him with a peerage, creating him Baron Burghley.
1 de mar. de 2005 · As a serious classical scholar, Mildred Cooke Cecil, Lady Burghley (1526–1589), amassed her own collection of books to support her reading. Most of them had been recently published by significant European printers.
