Cecil, Baron William^[1]

1520 - 1598  (77 years)

• Name	Cecil, William
  Prefix	Baron
  Birth	18 Sep 1520	Burghley, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	4 Aug 1598	Burghley House, Strand, Co Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I113	Fitzgerald-Aller
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2005

  
  

  Father	Cecil, First Lord Richard,   b. Abt 1503, Burghley, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 22 May 1587, England (Age ~ 84 years)
  Mother	Heckington, Jane,   b. Between 1494 and 1500, Bourne, Lincolnshire, England d. Mar 1587, England (Age ~ 93 years)
  Marriage	1520	Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F68	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Cheke, Mary,   b. 1512, St. Mary's, Cambridge, England d. 22 Feb 1543-1544, Cambridge, England (Age 32 years)
  Marriage	8 Aug 1541	Gray's Inn, London, England
  Children	1. Cecil, Thomas,   b. 5 May 1542, Cambridge, England d. 7 Feb 1623, London, Burghley House, Strand, England (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F62	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2005

  
  

  Family 2	Cooke, Mildred,   b. 24 Aug 1524, Gildea Hall, Co Essex, England d. 5 Apr 1589, Burghley House, Strand, Co Middlesex, England (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	21 Dec 1545	England
  Children	1. Cecil, Anne,   b. 5 Dec 1555, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. 6 Jun 1588, Westminister, Salisbury, England (Age 32 years)   2. Cecil, Frances,   b. 6 Apr 1556, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. Yes, date unknown   3. Cecil, William,   b. 23 Oct 1559, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. Yes, date unknown   4. Cecil, William,   b. May 1561, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. Yes, date unknown   5. Cecil, Robert,   b. 1 Jun 1563, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. 24 May 1612, St. Margaret's Priory, Marlborough, England (Age 48 years)   6. Cecil, Elizabeth,   b. 1 Jul 1564, Westminister, Salisbury, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F63	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2004

  
  

• Notes

  Also spelled Burleigh-but I defer to the Oxford University Press spelling He was High Treasurer and Prime Minister of England. He was Elizabeth I's chief minister until the day of his death. According to "The Cecils of Hatfield House An English Ruling Family" by David Cecil, Houghton Mifflin 1973: He may have had a child out of wedlock by age 14 With his father's help he became an MP, and a justice of the peace. At 27 he became Master of the Requests to Edward VI, he was knighted shortly afterward. He retired to the country during the reign of Mary Tudor. He was a womanizer and had frequent liassons. In 1571 elizabeth I created him Lord Burghley, a year later, Knight of the Garter and Lord Treasurer. Lord Burghley conducted what amounted to a school for young noblemen at his estate, partly to educate and partly to build the governing class and strengthen Elizabeth I From Michael David Smart: "Sixty Old Master paintings drawn from the collection of one of England's grandest Elizabethan houses came to Lakeview Museum in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Paintings, Paintings from the Burghley House Collection...This outstanding collection of 16th to 18th century paintings has remained near intact for more than 300 years at Burghley House, a 750 room house located 90 miles from London and home to 17 generations of the Cecil family. The house is the oldest home in England still lived in continuously by the same family. Burghley House was finished in 1587 for Sir William Cecil...Though the interior was remodeled in the 1690's the house remains the finest example of late 16th century architechture in England..." Adrian Channing reports "1st Lord Burleigh was v fond of maps, at a time when maps of 'regions' were first being produced in England. My ancestor (a Browne) sent him the first map of county Mayo, Ireland in 1585, so perhaps this fondness of maps carried down to his grandson."

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] Melissa Thompson Alexander, GEDCOM File: Melissa Thompson Alexander. [S42] Gina Adlersfluegel wintervaf2@charter.net.