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...
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English politician, courtier and soldier. Thomas Cecil was the elder son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, by his first wife, Mary Cheke (d. February 1543)...
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the Burghley House Preservation Trust, which is controlled by the Cecil family. Burghley was built for Sir William Cecil, later 1st Baron Burghley, who...
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as an agent provocateur. Cecil (created Earl of Salisbury in 1605) was the younger son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley by his second wife, Mildred...
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Marquess of Exeter (redirect from Baron Burghley)
Devon. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1521–1598) Thomas Cecil, 2nd Baron Burghley (1542–1623) (created Earl of Exeter in 1605) Other titles (1st Earl...
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served until 1945. The Marquess of Exeter was a descendant of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief minister and, later, treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I...
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de Vere (née Cecil), Countess of Oxford (5 December 1556 – 5 June 1588) was the daughter of the statesman William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, chief adviser...
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Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, and Dorothy Neville, and the granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. She was the wife of Sir William Hatton...
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of Exeter, 1916–1936 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), English politician and advisor to Elizabeth I William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Exeter (1566–1640)...
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Mildred Cooke (redirect from Mildred Burghley)
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...
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from William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. The Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes family members include: Frederick Benjamin Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 16th Baron Saye...
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Bothwell. After the explosion, Sir William Drury reported to the English Secretary of State William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, that James Balfour had purchased...
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Burghley may refer to: William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520–1598), chief minister of queen Elizabeth I of England Burghley House, a sixteenth-century...
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Martyrs William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley (1520-1598), Chief Advisor to Queen Elizabeth I Anne Askew (1521-1546), Protestant martyr William Byrd (1539-1623)...
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Baron. Through the marriage of the second Viscount to a daughter of Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon, the family descends from William Cecil, 1st...
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Amherst Cecil (a descendant of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley) in 1924. Their sons, George and William, eventually inherited the property. George Cecil, the...
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He was also at one time chaplain to William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, and tutor to his son Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, who both served Queen...
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1st Baron Petre John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford 1558–? Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester 3 July 1585 – 4 September 1588 William Cecil, 1st Baron...
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Marquess of Salisbury (redirect from Baron Cecil)
centuries. This branch of the Cecil family descends from Sir Robert Cecil, the son of the prominent statesman the 1st Baron Burghley, from his second marriage...
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William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester KG PC (c. 1483/1485 – 10 March 1572), styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between...
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accession of Queen Elizabeth I, and his close friendship with William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, made him a powerful noble. When Queen Mary I of England had...
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included Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester and Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, with William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley involved as a supervisor...
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eldest son of Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet, and Lady Frances Cecil, granddaughter of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley. Thanet was a staunch Cavalier...
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the Air Board from May 1916 MP for Hitchin until 1923; created Viscount Cecil of Chelwood December 1923 Served as Leader of the House of Lords from April...
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were all suspected of having knowledge of the plan had fled. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley and a French diplomat, Paul de Foix discussed the news. De...
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Walsingham Joseph Fiennes as Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester Richard Attenborough as William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Christopher Eccleston as Thomas Howard...
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Percy, Lord Percy 1377 John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel, Lord Maltravers 1377–1383 (died 1379) Thomas Mowbray, 1st Earl of Nottingham 1385–1386 The position...
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Hatton had died by 1591. William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley died in 1598. The council was split between Robert Cecil (Burghley's son) and Robert Devereux...
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2017. BBC Press Office (29 December 2005). "Ian Hart plays William Cecil, later Lord Burghley". BBC. Retrieved 13 April 2017. BBC Press Office (29 December...
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1588 William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley 31 December 1588 – 4 August 1598 vacant Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 5 August 1605 – 24 May 1612 William Cecil...
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