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1st Baron Burghley



William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (see here and here),
born 18th Sept 1520,
for 40 years chief secretary of state to Elizabeth I, and the "chief architect of Elizabethan greatness",
educ St.John's College, Cambridge,
mar 1stly to Mary Cheke and had issue:


  1. Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter (see here), born 1542,
    inherited Burghley House,
    ancestor of Marquess of Exeter.


mar 2ndly to Mildred Cooke [born 1526],
Chancellor of University of Cambridge 1560,
cr Baron 1571,
built London town house, Cecil House (or Burghley House), The Strand, London (now gone),
built country seat at Burghley House, nr Stamford, Lincolnshire, 1587,
died 4th Aug 1598, age 77 yrs,
bur St. Martin's church, Stamford, Lincolnshire,
see images at [NPG], "More contemporary portraits of Burghley exist than of any Elizabethan other than the Queen herself.",
had issue by 2nd wife:


  1. Anne Cecil, born 5th Dec 1556,
    mar Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford and had issue.


  2. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (see here), born 1563,
    succ to his father's job as Elizabeth's chief minister,
    in later years of Elizabeth's reign, he developed contacts with James VI, King of Scotland, which led to James succeeding Elizabeth in 1603,
    John Aubrey says he was a lover of Lady Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke [his niece Susan de Vere would marry her son the 4th Earl of Pembroke in 1604],
    cr Viscount Cranborne (NOT Cranbourne) 1604,
    cr Earl of Salisbury 1605,
    built Hatfield House, Hertfordshire, from 1608,
    died 1612, ancestor of Marquess of Salisbury.




William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
By or after Arnold van Brounckhorst.
From Tudor Place.



William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
From Tudor Place.



William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley.
From Tudor Place.



Tomb of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, Stamford, Lincolnshire.
Picture credit Tudor Place.




Exeter


Salisbury



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